After a little holiday break, I’m back onto Ian Agard dot Com. I hope you enjoyed their holidays. Now that my film Bend and Break is completed I plan to devote the next 4 to 6 months of my time and energy to market and sell my feature film around the world and entertain as many people as possible. That means I will not be writing on this blog on a weekly basis as usual. It might be once a month or once every other week. But I will continue to share my personal filmmaking experience as things progress over the next 6 months.
Here is something interesting I came across while researching for potential film festivals to submit Bend and Break too. It can be quite costly to submit your movie into a film festival, so here are some festivals from around the world which have no entry fee.
The No-Fee Film Festival List
15/15 Film Festival - short must be produced during the contest
African-American Film Marketplace
African Diaspora Film Festival
American Conservation Film Festival
Amnesty International Film Festival
Annapolis Reel Cinema Festival – defunct?
Archaeology Channel Festival – indigenous peoples, heritgage film
Arizona State University Art Museum Short Film & Video Festival
Auckland International Film Festival
Australian Effects Short Film Festival - showcases digital effects and innovation
Balticon Film Festival – sci/fi convention fest, mostly shorts
Berlin and Beyond – films from Germany, Austria, Switzerland only. Fest is in San Francisco.
Bicycle Film Festival – films featuring or celebrating bicycles.
Black Soil Film Festival – hip hop films
The Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival
Brisbane International Film Festival
Calgary Underground Film Festival
Cinerama (defunct?)
Conscious Life Expo Film Festival – where the “the spiritual and progressive community in southern California” comes together
Daytona Beach Film Festival – free for student filmmakers
DOCNZ – documentaries
Docfest – New York International Documentary Festival – filmmakers apply by letter first; festival will request screener if they are interested
DC Independent Film Festival – student filmmakers pay no fee
Down Under International Film Festival
Greenbelt Utopia Film & Video Festival – fee waived for filmmakers under 18
Human Rights Watch Intl Film Festival – festival solicits film descriptions by email and then requests screeners from filmmakers
Intelligent Use of Water Film Fest – short films about water conservation
Loisaida Cortos Latino Film Festival
Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival
Melbourne Independent Filmmakers Festival - no fee for films submitted before certain date
Melbourne Underground Film Festival
Native American Film & Video Festival
National Neighborhood Day Short Film Contest - no entry fee for youth
New York Arab & South Asian Film Festival
New York International Latino Film Festival
Next Reel International Film Festival
OUTer Gay & Lesbian Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film Festival
Providence Latin American Film Festival
Red Stick International Animation Festival
Salem Film Festival – send info first, they will request screener if interested
San Francisco Women’s Film Festival
Scandinavian Film Festival L.A.
Scinema Festival of Science Film
Tiburon Film Festival – fee waived for students
Wild Spaces Film Festival - appears defunct?