The official JIFF Japan Indies Film Festival is a true independent international film festival supporting young talent around the world. 

Creating dreams and hope through cinema is our vision. Returning Japan to the glory days of cinema for young filmmakers and independent artists the goal of the official JIFF Japan Indies Film Festival.

https://filmfreeway.com/JapanIndiesFilmfestival

"This is one of the few festivals that actually likes filmmakers, unlike most that just screen your film and kick you out right after. I highly recommend this festival to the locals, had a lot of fun last year, great venue and organizers, with a great host." 
- Vlad Nikitin, Director, 'Grand Chinatown Robbery'

Our mission at the Studio City International Film Festival is to present cutting-edge films that will entertain, provoke, and inform its audience members. 
 
All genres are welcome. We wish to encourage all cultures and ethnicities. It is our firm belief that the arts are a unifying force that serves to bridge all cultural and ethnic gaps. 
 
Our festival isn't until November, so hopefully it will be safe to be back in the theater by then. But if not, we are fully prepared to go virtual one more year. (Please check our reviews on last year's online fest). However, we FULLY EXPECT to be in the theater this fall and to once again have our traditional opening night party.

https://filmfreeway.com/StudioCityFilmFestival

The longest-running women’s film festival in North America honors films and filmmakers that present the world as women experience it. The Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival showcases documentary, narrative, shorts, and animated films that are thought-provoking, enriching, and encourage both global awareness and personal growth.

https://rmwfilm.org/festival/festival-overview-2021/

2021 will mark the eleventh annual Weyauwega International Film Festival in Weyauwega, Wisconsin. 

We are here to celebrate film and filmmaking and to bring filmmakers together from around the world to share their work with our film going public as well as with each other.

Whatever reflects your own sense of the world, of people, of the ties between people and conveys this personal sensibility to us will be valuable. At WIFF we show the work of filmmakers who are finding or at least listening for their own voice. There is no one way. We are looking for all genres of film: narratives, documentaries, features, shorts, comedies, experimental, animation, etc. Half of the films screened at WIFF are foreign language films. We will have late night screenings featuring especially eccentric or scary pictures. Our filmmakers forums are also a part of WIFF.

https://filmfreeway.com/WeyauwegaInternationalFilmFestival

New York International Women Festival is a seasonal competitive Festival dedicated to Film style, and female gaze in cinema. 

First of all, it a festival that valorizes the work of women filmmakers. We are looking for a unique and innovative perspective from female filmmakers to introduce them and promote them. We also accept projects directed by non-female directors who have something important to say about womanhood.

Secondly, it is a festival to valorize the style and fashion in a film. Regardless of filmmaker gender, we aim to focus on the stylistic features of cinema to see what elements have made a film significant, to see how camera movements or set designs have been able to create a unique environment for the movie to be set in and to see how make-up artists, production designers and costume designers have been able to add their unique vision to these works of art. If you think you have a film with good taste, this is your festival and don't hesitate to submit your work.

The festival has a seasonal structure. First, the judges will privately review the submitted materials, and subsequently, they will announce the winners. The winner's projects will then be introduced to our social media.

https://filmfreeway.com/Newyorkwomenfestival

The Melbourne Documentary Film Festival is a popular and beloved institution and has grown over the last 6 years to become an important and essential Australian film festival, showcasing the world's best and most innovative cutting edge documentaries. If accepted you are guaranteed to be part of an incredible, world class line up. Melbourne Documentary Film Festival is a forerunner event in July before Melbourne's premier event Melbourne International Film Festival which starts is in August. Join us as we make the comeback, the fightback against Covid-19 and bring business back to Melbourne in 2021 for the inevitable and triumphant return to cinema. Melbourne Documentary Film Festival is a festival where you and your documentary are the star of our festival! Which thousands and thousands and thousands of people attend each year.

https://filmfreeway.com/MelbourneDocumentaryFilmFestival

https://www.laketravisfilmfestival.com

SF DocFest is an annual festival devoted to documentary cinema. Since 2001, this two week-long event has brought the most weird and wonderful aspects of real life to the big screen.

“Docfest offers a zippy blend of politics, music, social issues and youth-oriented subcultures. The good news is that DocFest promotes documentaries as a vibrant, irreverent form of entertainment to a younger demographic, blasting the notion of educational films to smithereens. There’s no room for anything approximating — watch it, I’m about to blaspheme – the obsessively measured and utterly somnambulant musings of Ken Burns.” – Michael Fox, KQED

https://filmfreeway.com/SanFranciscoDocumentaryFestival

https://filmfreeway.com/piffFilms

https://www.sunscreenfilmfestival.com

www.julienfilmfest.com

Click here to view the Silver State Film Festival Program, 2020, featuring Catherine’s Kindergarten.