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Film Festival Resources

Indigenous Festivals

CANADA

Alianait Arts Festival

Iqaluit, Nunavut

Asinabka Film & Media Arts Festival

Ottawa, ON

imagineNATIVE Film & Media Arts Festival

Toronto, ON

Two Spirit Festival

Saskatoon, SK

mispon: A Celebration of Indigenous Filmmaking

Regina, SK

Présence Autochtone Montréal First Peoples Festival

Montréal, QC

Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival

Vancouver, BC

Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival

Winnipeg, MB

USA

American Indian Film Festival

San Francisco, CA, USA

Augsburg College Native American Film Series

Minneapolis, MN, USA

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival

Missoula, MT, USA

California’s American Indian & Indigenous Film Festival

(Formerly San Diego American Indian Film Festival)

San Marcos, CA, USA

Cine Las Americas International Film Festival

Austin, TX, USA

Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital

Washington, D.C., USA

First Nations | First Features: A Showcase of World Indigenous Film & Media

New York and Washington, D.C., USA

Hawaii International Film Festival

Honolulu, HI, USA

Indigenous Film & Arts Festival

Denver, CO, USA

Indigenous World Film Festival

Anchorage, AK, USA

LA SKINS Film Festival

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival

New York, NY, USA

Mother Tongue Film Festival (Recovering Voices)

Washington, DC

Native American Film & Video Festival (on hiatus)

New York, NY, USA

Native Cinema Showcase

Santa Fe, NM, USA

Information: fvc@si.edu

Native Crossroads Film Festival & Symposium

Norman, OK, USA

Native Eyes Film Showcase

Tucson, AZ, USA

Native Film Festival

Palm Springs, CA, USA

Nmai's at the Movies Series

New York, NY, USA

Nmai's Dinner & a Movie Series

Washington, D.C., USA

Red Fork Native American Film Festival

Tulsa, OK, USA

Sapatq’ayn Cinema: Native American Film Festival

Moscow, ID, USA

Sundance Film Festival

Park City, UT, USA

MEXICO, CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA

Arica Nativa International Rural & Indigenous Film Festival

Arica, Chile

CLACPI Festival Internacional de Cine y Video de los Pueblos Indígenas / International Film & Video Festival of Indigenous Peoples

Biennial in rotating Latin American countries. Organized by CLACPI – Coordinadora Latinoamericano de Cine y Comunicación de los Pueblos Indígenas

Cumbre Continental de Comunicación Indígena del Abya Yala / Abya Yala Summit Meeting on Indigenous Communication

Biennial in different countries of Latin America

Derhumalc | Festival Internacional de Cine de Derechos Humanos/International Human Rights Film Festival

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Encuentro Hispanoamericano de Cine y Video Documental Independiente: Contra el Silencio Todas las Voces

Tlalpan, D.F., Mexico

Festival de Cine de los Pueblos Indígenas

Chaco, Argentina

Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia

Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico

MICIV | International Indigenous Film Showcase of Venezuela

Maracaibo, Venezuela

Premio Anaconda

Biennial in rotating Latin American countries. Organized by CLACPI – Coordinadora Latinoamericano de Cine y Comunicación de los Pueblos Indígenas

EUROPE

Berlinale / Berlin International Film Festival

Berlin, German

Dellie Maa | Sapmi Indigenous Film & Art Festival

Tärnaby & Umeå, Sweden

Festival Cine Alter’Natif

Nanterre, France

Festival International du Film D’Amiens

Amiens, France

Indianer Inuit: North American Native Film Festival

Stuttgart, Germany

International Film Festival Rotterdam

Rotterdam, Netherlands

Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen

Oberhausen, Germany

Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur

Winterthur, Switzerland

Native Spirit Film Festival

London, UK

Origins: Festival of First Nations

Enfield, UK

Red Rocks Arts & Crafts Festival - Film Showcase

Zagreb, Croatia

Skábmagovat: Indigenous Peoples’ Film & TV Production Festival

Inari, Finland

AUSTRALIA & AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND

Boomerang Festival

Tyagarah, Australia

Corroboree Sydney Festival

Walsh Bay, Australia

Homeground Festival

Sydney, Australia

Maoriland Film Festival

Otaki, Aotearoa New Zealand

Melbourne International Film Festival

Melbourne, Australia

Sydney Film Festival

Sydney, Australia

Solid Screen Festival

Queensland, Australia

Wairoa Maori Film Festival

Wairoa, Aotearoa New Zealand

Winda Film Festival

Sydney, Australia

ASIA & SOUTH PACIFIC

FIFO | Oceanian International Documentary Film Festival

Tahiti, French Polynesia

Nepal International Indigenous Film Festival

Kathmandu, Nepal

NUKU'ALOFA FILM FESTIVAL

Tonga, Polynesia

Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival

Nanking, Taipei, Taiwan

Yakutsk International Film Festival

Yakutsk, Sakha, Russia

Youth Festivals

Canadian Cinema Editors Awards

Contact your instructor.

Deadline: March 6

Canadian Society of Cinematographers Student Awards

Contact your instructor.

Deadline: January 31

Images Festival (Toronto)

Deadline: November 2

Ivy Film Festival (Brown University, Rhode Island)

Deadline: February 15

Living Skies Student Film Festival (Regina)

Deadline: January 31

Mississauga Youth Film Festival

Deadline: April 1

Next Frame: UFVA Student Film & Video Festival (Philadelphia)

Deadline: October 1

Reelshow International

Continuing online.

Toronto Youth Shorts

Deadline: May 13

TVO Doc Studio Contest (online)

Deadline: March 28

Windrider International Student Film Festival

We offer $10,000 US prizes and expense paid trips to Sundance Film Festival. We honor emerging film and documentary students whose work reflects the human condition with creativity and respect. Past winners have won Academy Awards, Peabody, Sundance etc.

We have been around over 15 years, formerly known as the Angelus Student Film Festival.

Yorkton Film Festival

Student Category

Deadline: January 31

Young Cuts Film Festival (Montréal)

Deadline: July 1

Shorts Festivals

Antimatter Film Festival (Victoria)

Deadline: May 11

Breast Fest Film Festival (Toronto)

Deadline: July 31

Cabbagetown Short Film & Video Festival (Toronto)

Deadline: July 31

Canada International Film Festival (Vancouver)

Deadline: August 31

Dawson City International Short Film Festival

Deadline: November 11

enRoute Film Festival

Air Canada

Deadline: May 31

Filmaka

Continuing online.

Kingston Canadian Film Festival

Local shorts.

Deadline: January 31

Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM)

Deadline: June 28

Mutinee

Continuing online.

Niagara Indie Film Fest (St. Catharines)

Deadline: February 7

Northwest Fest (Edmonton)

Deadline: February 14

NSI Online Short Film Festival

Deadline: March 18

One World One Minute

One-minute festivals.

Continuing online.

Ottawa International Animation Festival

Deadline: May 17

Reelout (Kingston)

September 30

Reel World Film Festival (Toronto)

Deadline: December 5

Regent Park Film Festival (Toronto)

Deadline: June 13

Rhode Island International Film Festival

Deadline: May 15

Rochester International Film Festival

Deadline: December 3

Shortsnonstop

Continuing online.

Toronto Urban Film Festival

1-minute films, Toronto Transit Commission

Deadline: July 15

Wasaga Beach Short Film Festival (Ontario)

Deadline: February 28

WildSound Film Festival (Toronto)

Continuing monthly.

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Festival databases

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