Established in 1992, The Pan African Film Festival (PAFF) is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to the promotion of cultural and racial tolerance and understanding through the exhibition of film, art and creative expression.

It is PAFF's goal to present and showcase the broad spectrum of Black creative works, particularly those that reinforce positive images and help to destroy negative stereotypes. We believe film and art can lead to better understanding and foster communication between peoples of diverse cultures, races, and lifestyles, while at the same time, serve as a vehicle to initiate dialogue on the important issues of our times.

The festival takes place at Rave Cinemas Baldwin Hills 15 (formerly the AMC Magic Johnson Crenshaw 15) at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza. The theatre is situated on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard between Marlton Avenue and Crenshaw Boulevard)

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.

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival will be held in Missoula, Montana, February 17-26, at the Historic Wilma Theatre. The 144-film program, culled from nearly 1,000 entries from all over the world, will feature a free opening night screening of Matthew Akers' new film Marina Abramović The Artist is Present (sponsored by HBO Documentary Films); a massive music sidebar of new and classic films and live performances (sponsored by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences);  and retrospective and visiting artist programs featuring films by Barbara Kopple, D.A. Pennebaker, Agi Orsi, Caveh Zahedi, Dave Markey and celebrated animator Bill Plympton.