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How To Submit Your Film to Festivals
You've made the perfect movie and now you're ready to send it off to film festivals around the world. Before you head off to the post office read these simple tips to help make sure your film is admitted to all the festivals you apply for.

Make Entering Film Festivals Easy
Finding film festivals can be difficult to do. Withoutabox is designed to help independent film makers find film festivals to enter as well as find each other through their online database. Withoutabox is free to use, and makes entering film festivals a breeze.

Carolina Film and Video Festival
The Carolina Film and Video Festival is a film festival put on by The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Each year the festival welcomes the work of new filmmakers as well as seasoned professionals into the festival and showcases a variety of different films of all lengths and genres.

Big Mountain Short Film Festival
The Big Mountain Short Film Festival is held in Ohakune, New Zealand and is absolutely free to enter and attend. The film festival showcases short films with categories for films with a budget of over $1000, and those films with no budget spending under $1000 on production. There is also a special category in the competition for the “Best Film Made For Under $100.”

Goldie Film Awards
Around since 1984, The Goldie Film Awards are a little different than your typical film competition. Films submitted to the awards are judged against a "high standard of excellence" rather than each other. The awards accept commercials, audio projects, internet productions, and television shows as well as films and videos. Winners are awarded a certificate or wall plaque.

Hope and Dreams Film Festival
The Hope and Dreams film festival is held annually in Hope, NJ, and accepts films of all lengths and genres. The festival gives additional consideration to films that have themes related to hope and dreams.

Williamstown Film Festival
The Williamstown Film Festival is a two-week film festival held annually in Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts. The film festival accepts a great deal of "cutting-edge" indie films and features seminars by people working in the film industry.

A Festival of Films
A Festival of Films in San Antonio is a film festival judged by the live film audience. The film festival accepts everything from animation to documentaries, and recently added a TV pilot category .

New York Short Film Festival
The New York Short Film Festival is open to all films under 30 minutes in length. The film festival "is aimed at encouraging the creativity and the artistic result, regardless the material resources used in each film, generating a wide exchange of aesthetic and ideas between artists of distinct cultures".

Enter Your Home Movie In this Contest
Do you have a 2 minute home movie that you are dying to share with the world. Enter this contest for a chance to win a Sony DCR-PC350 Handycam camcorder or other prizes.

Hayden Films Online Film Festival
Check out Hayden Films online film festival. You can view other independent films and enter your own for a chance to win $10,000.

Zoie Films Online Film Festival
Enter any genre of film or music video in Zoie films online film festival.

Go See A Film Festival
Want to know what film festivals are going on around you? Find out what film festivals are going on this week, this month, or even this year.

New York One Minute Film Festival
The New York Minute Film Festival is an online film festival designed to showcase films that are exactly one minute in length. The festival has four categories drama, animation, comedy, and experimental.