Now in its eighth year, BIFF is a four-day tribute to the power of film and the excitement of independent film from around the world. Local residents and visitors from around the nation fill more than a dozen venues, ranging in size from 40 seats to the 700 seat Eclipse Center in Beloit and Janesville, Wis. and Rockford, Ill. for about 140 films and to meet more than 100 filmmakers who come from as far away as Europe and China.

The Marda Loop Justice Film Festival’s vision is the emergence of a sustainable world of communities at peace, living in just relationship one with another. We value empathy, equality, the sharing of resources and love of neighbour. We seek to be an effective contributor to the realization of this vision shared by many people.

Established in 1983, the Long Island Film Festival is the first annual Island-wide competitive film festival of its kind to stage public screenings and champion the creative, visionary and storytelling talents of both professional and student filmmakers from both America and abroad. This makes the Long Island Film Festival the longest running film festival on Long Island. The handful of host venues that presented the Festival’s screening program and special events for the first edition included the Cinema Arts Center, Parish Art Museum in Southampton, Inter-Media Arts Center and some area colleges.

The goal of the Montreal International Black Film Festival (MIBFF) is to bring audiences the most beautiful and the most amazing new Black films, while creating a space to debate major cultural, social and socio-economic issues. The MIBFF wants to promote a different kind of cinema, cinema that hails from here and from abroad and that does not necessarily have the opportunity to grace the big screen, groundbreaking cinema that moves us, that raises awareness and that takes us all by surprise. The MIBFF wants to deal with issues and present works that raise questions, that provoke, that make us smile, that leave us perplexed, that shock us.

Graduated from the Belgrade University, Serbia. Director and founder of the Bridge Fest (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) festival held in Vancouver, Canada for the 2006, 2007 and 2008 edition, then in 2009 moved to Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and in 2010 had also projections in Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. His script “The Bridge” was finalist (top 5 scripts) in Houston World Fest script competition 2003, Hollywood International Screenplay Awards 2004 and semifinalist in Los Angeles screenplay festival and New York midnight script competition in 2004.

COMMFFEST is held each year in the downtown region of Old Toronto in the historical St. Lawrence Market Neighbourhood. Screenings are held in the Rainbow Cinema, The St. Lawrence Great Hall, The Performing Arts Lodge and other venues to be announced.

The town of York was founded in 1793, on a site of ten blocks north of Front Street between George and Berkeley Streets. The area of today’s St. Lawrencr neighbourhood was then below the waterline, the shoreline being just south of Front Street. The area was infilled to provide more land for port and industrial uses adjacent.

The Marbella International Film Festival brings together artists and their films from all corners of the globe to display their talents to the commercial world.

The Festival is growing in stature and receives continuous worldwide accolade, recognition and support for its contribution to the arts. The opulence of the Spanish area of Marbella naturally includes the quintessential sophistication derived by art and culture.

Delegates converge to celebrate the Festival over five days, culminating with a prestigious gala awards ceremony to recognize the best films in their category.

After careful consideration and an overwhelming number of quality submissions, the White Sands International Film Festival has announced the films that will be part of this year’s festival!

The Pan Pacific Film Festival (PPFF) is a forum for filmmakers worldwide to share stories of how people from all walks of life have been touched and transformed by faith, hope, and love, because we at PPFF believe in the beauty of film to reach, to move, and to inspire people globally. We are a family and faith-friendly film festival and aim to encourage the production of positive films.

The Kansas International Film Festival (KIFF) was founded in 2001 as a Kansas based non-profit organization dedicated to the exhibition and preservation of independent and classic cinema. As a premier cultural and educational event in greater Kansas City, KIFF stands alone as a movie purist’s delight, focusing on documentary, narrative, and animated independent films. The festival culminates in the presentation of several awards, including an Audience Award in each category based on audience votes. KIFF attracts local, regional, and national work, recognizing visiting filmmakers and screen personalities, increasing public awareness of independent and classic cinema as a cultural, economic, and educational asset.

The Salento International Film Festival Is a celebration of films and filmmakers, promotes international independent films, in recognition of the fact that movies are the most powerful form of cultural communication and link between cultures’ and peoples’.

Founded in 2004 by Luigi Campanile, the Salento International Film Festival emerged as a major cultural event and the top film festivalin South Italy.

Each year it introduces filmmakers worldwide to the Salento area’s unique resources, while celebrating the history and future of the film industry with 10 days of world premieres, special events, seminars, feature films, short films, documentaries, and all night parties.

The Tenerife International Film Festival is an international film event to celebrate the movie making whilst bringing together film makers and the business of film making, from the smallest independent film maker to the most popular English and foreign language films and is open to all film genres.

An inventive selection that is neither too traditional nor too sophisticated, a selection that is the most international in the world, open to all film types and yet never forgetting our over-riding passion- that of the love of film, a selection that is attentive to the arrival of new generations and which combines all the necessary conditions for the films to be hosted and honoured in the great tradition of film makers around the world.

The Interrobang Film Festivalcombines a traditional film production festival with a public screening. Accepted films will be screened at various times throughout the three days of the Des Moines Arts Festival® on June 22-24, 2012 in downtown Des Moines.

Submissions will be reviewed by a panel of local jurors, and awards will be determined based on a Best of category system. Cash prizes will be awarded in various categories. Jurors will also award an Iowa Filmmaker Award to a production company or department that is a resident of the state of Iowa. Guests will have the opportunity to view submitted films at various times throughout the three days of the Festival.

Logan Film Festival is a celebration of independent films, in that artistic expression and alternative views are the main focuses, not big Hollywood names and budgets.

Logan Independent Film Festival is based in Logan, Utah. It represents a coming together of the Fringe Film Festival and the Real 2 Reel Film Festival. Although officially organized in 2012, it has been an annual event since 2008.

Riverside International Film Festival continues to grow in size, scope and stature as a prominent venue for top quality international cinema, showing films from local and international film makers, including world premieres, features, shorts and documentaries.

As a major center of arts and culture in Inland Southern California, the City of Riverside is proud to welcome the international film community and audiences who enjoy and appreciate the entertaining, enlightening, inspiring and provocative stories of our world, as told by some of the industry’s most innovative filmmakers and up-and-coming directors, for a rich and varied artistic experience.

Millions of people from all over the world come to the Black Hills of South Dakota to see the sights, from Mt. Rushmore, to Deadwood and the Badlands – and now the Black Hills Film Festival provides a window for the area to revel in film creations from across the globe.

Not only does the festival showcase the newest voices in independent film, but it also provides structured classes and forums for film artists to sharpen their craft and share their skill.

Classes are taught by notable film professionals and are free to participating filmmakers! In its second year, the festival is aggressively expanding and hungry for films – docs, narrative features and shorts alike.