Call for films: Festival Cinemistica – Spain
Festival Cinemistica describes its philosophy as: … dedicated to transcendental cinema, at its several meanings, including philosophic, psychological, scientific, anthropological, spiritual and poetic...
View ArticleCall for films: Drumshanbo Written Word Weekend
Drumshanbo Written Word Weekend is looking for poetry films. Drumshanbo in County Leitrim, Ireland, hosts an annual literary festival bringing together some of Ireland’s finest writers and poets to...
View ArticleCall for films: Italy and Ireland
Some fresh calls for films this week … first up La Poesie che si vede, an international competition for poetry films based in Ancona, Italy, with the winner awarded €500. The organisers say: It is the...
View ArticleCall for entries: Filmetry 23
Filmetry, an online festival of poetry and film that began in 2019 and picked up steam during the pandemic, is inviting filmmakers to make new work from a set selection of poems, just as Moving Poems...
View ArticleCall for films: Videobardo International Videopoetry Festival
The Buenos Aires-based Videobardo festival will mark its 27th year this November, and has just issued an open call in Spanish and English. Videobardo Archive and International Videopoetry Festival,...
View ArticleCall for work: ekphrastic video poems
Part of Festival Fotogenia in Mexico in November/December 2023 is Frame to Frames: Your Eyes Follow II. This is an ekphrastic video poem screening and prize competition. Organisers are looking for...
View ArticleCall for Work: Button Poetry Video Contest
The spoken-word channel/platform Button Poetry has just announced their 2023 poetry video contest. We are thrilled to host our eighth annual open-submission video contest! There are so many ways to...
View ArticleCall for entries: REELpoetry/HoustonTX 2024
The Public Poetry organization in Houston, Texas has announced the opening of submissions to REELpoetry/HoustonTX 2024 on FilmFreeway: REELpoetry/HoustonTX 2024 is an international, curated, hybrid...
View ArticleFestival circuit round-up
It’s the New Year and perhaps a good time to be thinking about film festivals and competitions. Is this the year you will enter for the first time? Or to bring an, as yet, unseen project to light? Or...
View ArticleOpen call: Maldito Festival de Videopoesía 2024
Spain’s MALDITO FESTIVAL DE VIDEOPOESÍA has just announced open calls for its International Videopoetry Contest (short films) — guidelines here [PDF] — and its International Poetic Film Showcase...
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