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The 35th Anniversary International Wildlife Film Festival Call for Entries is now open, along with highlights of the upcoming IWFF, one of the most important wildlife, film and conservation events of 2012. For the 35th IWFF, May 5-12, the theme is Challenge, Choice & Promise – Wildlife Film and Conservation in the 21st Century with the one-day Tarkio Retreat and special focus: Wild Cat Conservation: A Blueprint for Conservation Worldwide
The IWFF Call for Entries: October 2011 through January 31, 2012.
Late Deadline: February 10th, 2012.
We invite you to enter your film(s) and join us for what promises to be an unforgettable week of award-winning films, dynamic speakers and wildlife and marine leaders, working on the frontlines of conservation and media.
The Tarkio Retreat---Forging New Partnerships in Media & Conservation will be held on Wednesday, May 9th at one of the most beautiful, wild and secluded locations in Montana, on Salmon Lake just 30 minutes from Missoula.
From Lifetime Achievement Award Winners Dr. Sylvia Earle for Marine Conservation and Dr. Richard Leakey for Wildlife Conservation, to Panthera Founder, Tom Kaplan receiving the IWFF Hero of the Year Award; and, just announced, the IWFF Lifetime Achievement Award for Media to Fred Kaufman, Executive Producer of “Nature,” celebrating its 30th year on television in 2012.
Please join us as we bring together filmmakers, scientists, conservation leaders and front-line organizations, broadcasters and producers, to celebrate the very best in wildlife film and conservation through seminars, roundtables, technology, writing and distribution workshops, field trips and nightly social events and parties. Our goal is to bring focus and impact to the work that you do and to ensure that your films and media programming, field conservation efforts, science and education, have an impact on the fate and future of our planet and species around the world.
The IWFF Mission: To promote awareness, knowledge and understanding of wildlife, habitat, people and nature through excellence in film, television and other media.
To enter your film or learn more about IWFF and participation as a panel member, final judge, sponsor or presenter, please click on the Call for Entries/Festival Highlights Packet here.
The deadline to submit your entries for the 2012 edition of realscreen’s Factual Entertainment Awards has been extended to Friday, February 10th. You don’t want to miss the opportunity to ensure that your network or prodco’s best work is considered in our global celebration of factual excellence.
We’re accepting entries in the following categories:
- COMPETITION
- REALITY
- NON-FICTION
- LIFESTYLE
Winners will be determined by juries of the industry’s most highly regarded experts in these audience fields, who will also single out projects that merit special Craft Awards for editing, directing, casting, music, cinematography, hosting/presenting, most compelling character and most original concept.
We’ll also present the Award of Excellence to the program that scores highest overall and the Hall of Fame and Personality of the Year awards to trailblazers who’ve made their mark on the factual entertainment landscape.
Please visit http://awards.realscreen.com/ for all the information you’ll need on Eligibility, Judging and Entry Guidelines. Again, the deadline is Friday, February 10th at 5pm EST. The awards ceremony will take place during the Factual Entertainment Forum on May 30th, 2012 at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel.
To check out previous winners please click here.
Submit online via Withoutabox or download the application from the Festival's website. The deadline for submissions is February 10, 2012, with an early bird discount for entries postmarked by December 2, 2011. Discounted entry fees are also available for works submitted by Santa Cruz and Monterey County filmmakers, students, youth filmmakers (under 18), and entries submitted into EarthVision.
The Rose Marine Latino Film Festival - to be held February 24-26, 2012 in Fort Worth, Texas - is accepting films. The festival consists of three days of independent Latino films, awards, artist talks, networking events and an educational outreach collaborative at the historical Rose Marine Theater.
Films cannot exceed 20 minutes in length and can be either narrative or documentary. Out of the films entered, two will be featured during the festival, one for each of the following categories:
- RMLFF Shorts - Audience Award winner
- Student Lone Star Award - Honors a Texas student filmmaker attending college or university
Submission Deadline: February 10, 2012 (postmarked)
Submission information available on the festival's website.
Sheffield Doc/Fest's film program is now accepting film submissions for the 2012 festival, which runs June 13-17.
Submissions will close Monday, February 13 at midnight.
You can enter the film here sheffdocfest.com/view/submitafilm
Please read the Rules & Regulations form first.
It costs is £25 + VAT to enter your film. You must send three screeners of your film once you complete the form. To save plastic, postage, paper and everything else that goes into submitting films on DVD, we also accept film submissions on Vimeo for us to view. In fact, we encourage it.
The festival's vitality comes from our submissions so please know that we accept short, medium and feature-length docs from both new and established filmmakers with an equal-sized smile. Doc/Fest accept films about any subject or theme and regularly screens premiere and non-premier films. So do not let the fact that your doc has screened elsewhere on television or online deter you from entering! We still want to see it. Our programmer does accept works-in-progress (WIP), but if you do want to submit a WIP make sure you as a filmmaker are loving the way it stands before you send it in and the film is in the best shape possible because we rarely accept films to be submitted again in following years.
