Festival Entry Deadlines, January - February

Some festivals may require an entry fee.

Late entry deadline: January 4, 2010 (entry fee)
Youth Entry deadline - FutureWave: March 1, 2010 (entry fee)
Festival: May 20 - June 13, 2010
Seattle International Film Festival
Seattle, Washington
www.siff.net/index.aspx

Late deadline: January 10, 2010 (late submission fee)
Festival: March 2 - 6, 2010
Fargo Film Festival
Fargo, North Dakota
www.fargofilmfestival.org/

Late entry deadline: January 11, 2010 (entry fee)
Festival: April 21 - May 2, 2010
Tribeca Film Festival
www.tribecafilm.com/

Late entry deadline: January 15, 2010 (late submission fee)
Festival: April 29 - May 9, 2010
HotDocs
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
www.hotdocs.ca/

Entry deadline: February 5, 2010
Festival: April 15 - 19, 2010
Cowichan International Aboriginal Festival of Film & Art
Duncan, British Columbia, Canada
http://aff.cowichan.net/

Entry deadline: February 19, 2010
Screening: March 5, 2010
The Fargo Film Festival’s 2-Minute Movie Contest
Fargo, North Dakota
www.fargofilmfestival.org/20102minutemoviecontest

Entry deadline: February 19, 2010 (entry fee)
Late deadline: March 12, 2010 (late submission fee)
Festival: June 24 - 27, 2010
San Antonio Film Festival
San Antonio, Texas
www.safilm.com/

Entry deadline: February 26, 2010
Festival: April 9 - 16, 2010
Reel 2 Real: International Film Festival for Youth
Vancouver, BC, Canada
www.r2rfestival.org/

Recent and Upcoming Festivals

Festival: October - November, 2009
Premio Anaconda 2009
Video Indigena Amazonico, del Chaco y los Bosques Tropicales de America Latina y el Caribe
Traveling Festival: Various Countries and Awards Ceremony in December in Colombia
www.clacpi.org/index.php?/frontpage/premio-anaconda-2009.html

Festival: December 2 - 6, 2009
Santa Fe Film Festival
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://santafefilmfestival.com

Festival: December 10 - 13, 2009
Indianer Inuit: North American Native Film Festival
Stuttgart, Germany
www.nordamerika-filmfestival.com/en/index.html

Festival: January 21 - 31, 2010
Sundance Film Festival
Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah
http://festival.sundance.org/2010/

Festival: January 27 - 31, 2010
Skábmagovat Film Festival
Skábmagovat, Finland
www.skabmagovat.fi/800en.html

Festival: January 27 - February 7, 2010
International Film Festival Rotterdam
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/

Festival: January 29 - February 7, 2010
Victoria Film Festival
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
www.victoriafilmfestival.com/

Festival: February 4 - 7, 2010
Cinefestival en San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas
www.guadalupeculturalarts.org/

Festival: February 5 - 6, 2010
Indigenous World Film Festival
Alaska Native Heritage Center
Anchorage, Alaska
www.alaskanative.net/

Festival: February 10 - 14, 2010
Available Light Film Festival
Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada
www.yukonfilmsociety.com/alff/

Festival: February 11 - 21, 2010
Berlinale International Film Festival
Berlin, Germany
www.berlinale.de/en/

Festival: February 24 - March 6, 2010 (Toronto)
Festival: March 17 - 26, 2010 (London)
Festival: June 10 - 24, 2010 (New York)
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
Toronto, London, New York
www.hrw.org/iff

Festival: March 2 - 6, 2010
Fargo Film Festival
Fargo, North Dakota
www.fargofilmfestival.org/

Festival: March 2 - 6, 2010
Weeneebeg Aboriginal Film and Video Festival
Moose Factory, Ontario, Canada
www.weeneebeg.ca/

Festival: March 10 - 14, 2010
Festival of Native Film and Culture
Agua Caliente Cultural Museum
Palm Springs, California
www.accmuseum.org/

Festival: March 16 - 28, 2010
Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital
Washington D.C.
www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org/

Festival: March 26 - April 6, 2010
New Directors/New Films
Film Society of Lincoln Center and Museum of Modern Art
New York, New York
www.moma.org/explore/films

Festival: March 29 - April 2, 2010
Sami Film Festival
Kautokeino, Norway
www.samifilmfestival.no/

Opportunities

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Awards and Native Works Selected
A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - M - N - O - P - R - S - T - V - W
For a list of individual awards and honors enter here.
- Thanks to Daniel Grignon for contributing numerous updates to this section.

A

All Roads Film Festival
September 24 - 28, 2008, Los Angeles, California
October 2 - 5, 2008, Washington D.C.
December 3 - 7, 2008, Santa Fe, New Mexico
www.nationalgeographic.com/allroads
12/01/08

American Indian Film Festival at Bellevue College
November 5 - 7, 2008, Bellevue, Washington
http://bellevuecollege.edu/aiff/
12/01/08

American Indian Film Festival
November 7 - 15, 2008, San Francisco, California
www.aifisf.com
12/01/08

Augsburg College Native American Film Series
Each year the Augsburg College Native American Film Series in Minneapolis presents four kinds of film events: "Documentaries at Augsburg" focusing on current and historical issues in Indian country, "New Voices in Native Media" honoring youth and new filmmakers, "Native American Voices" presenting the current winners from the Fargo Film Festival, and special events with regional tribal communities. All events are free and open to the public.
www.augsburg.edu/ais/filmseries/
5/20/08

Available Light Film Festival
March 4 - 9, 2008, Whitehorse, Yukon
www.yukonfilmsociety.com
4/8/08

B

Awards at the Berlinale/Berlin International Film Festival, February 7 - 17, 2008, included the Generation section's Crystal Bear for Best Short Film to Nana, the story of a young girl, by indigenous Australian director Warwick Thornton. The Amnesty International Film Prize was awarded to Sleep Dealer (director: Alex Rivera), a haunting and imaginative foray into the near future in a story about a man from an indigenous community in southern Mexico who works in a border town which exports his labor via interactive electronics to the United States. Other films with indigenous themes or directors include the newly-restored feature The Exiles (director: Kent Mackenzie), the experimental short Shooting Geronimo (director: Kent Monkman) and short films from New Zealand in the Generation section including Run (director: Mark Albiston), Taua/War Party (director: Tearepa Kahi) and The Trophy (director: Justine Simei-Burton).
8/19/08

C

Cine Las Americas International Film Festival
April 16 - 24, 2008, Austin, Texas
www.cinelasamericas.org
5/20/08

Cowichan International Aboriginal Film Festival
April 17 - 19, 2008, Duncan, British Columbia
http://aff.cowichan.net
5/20/08

D

DerHumALC (Festival Internacional de Cine de Derechos Humanos)
April 24 - May 15, 2008, Santiago del Estero and Buenos Aires, Argentina
www.derhumalc.org.ar
5/20/08

Dreamspeakers Film Festival?
June 4 - 7, 2008, Edmonton, Alberta
www.dreamspeakers.org
6/30/08

E

Encuentro Hispano Americano de Video Documental Independiente: Contra el Silencio, Todas las Voces
April 9 - 12, 2008, Mexico City, D.F., Mexico
www.contraelsilencio.org
5/20/08

Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital
March 11 - 22, 2008, Washington, D.C.
www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org
4/8/08

F

Fargo Film Festival
March 5 - 8, 2008, Fargo, North Dakota'
www.fargofilmfestival.com
Includes "Native American Voices" program and awards.
4/8/08

Festival Internacional de Cine y Video de los Pueblos Indígenas/ International Film and Video Festival of Indigenous Peoples
Organized by CLACPI (Coordinadora Latinoamericana de Cine y Comunicación de los Pueblos Indígenas)
September 10 - 20, 2008, La Paz, Bolivia
cefrec@gmail.com
www.clacpi.org (Spanish)
12/01/08

Festival of Native Film & Culture
Agua Caliente Cultural Museum
(formerly the Palm Springs Native American Film Festival and Cultural Weekend)
March 5 - 9, 2008, Palm Springs, California
www.accmuseum.org/page49.html
4/8/08

G

Global Green Indigenous Film Festival
April 18 - 20, 2008, Santa Fe, New Mexico
www.ntec.org
5/20/08

H

Hawaii International Film Festival
October 9 - 19, 2008, Honolulu and other sites, Hawaii
www.hiff.org
12/01/08

Hot Docs
April 17 - 27, 2008, Toronto, Ontario
www.hotdocs.ca
5/20/08

I

IDFA/International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
November 20 - 30, 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
www.idfa.nl/industry
12/01/08

imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival
October 15 - 19, 2008, Toronto, Ontario
www.imaginenative.org
12/01/08

Indigenous Film & Arts Festival
"Contact: Conflict and Accommodation"
October 7 - 12, 2008, Denver, Colorado
www.iiirm.org
12/01/08

Indigenous World Film Festival Organized by Alaska Native Heritage Center
January 9 - 10, 2009, Anchorage, Alaska www.alaskanative.net/en/main_nav/plan_visit
/?calendar_events/indigenous_wff/
1/31/09

International Cherokee Film Festival
October 10 - 11, 2008, Tahlequah, Oklahoma
www.internationalcherokeefilmfestival.com
12/01/08

International Film and Video Festival of Indigenous Peoples CLACPI/Coord. Latinoamericana de Cine y Comunicación de los Pueblos Indígenas
September 10 - 20, 2008
La Paz and Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
www.clacpi.org (Spanish)

M

Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival
November 14 - 16, 2008, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York
12/01/08

Morelia International Film Festival
October 4 - 12, 2008, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico
www.moreliafilmfest.com
12/01/08

N

Native American Film Festival
April 13 - 15, 2008, Keene, New Hampshire
www.lakotafriends.org
5/20/08

The Native Experience Film Festival is took place on January 19, 2008, at the Swinomish Youth Center in La Conner, Washington, presented by the Skagit County Historical Museum. Screenings included the feature film Expiration Date (director: Rick Stevenson) and short works produced by the youth media organization Longhouse Media/Native Lens. Featured guests include the filmmakers and Swil Kanim, Robert Guthrie, Gene Tagaban, Tracey Rector, and Elaine Miles.
2/18/08

Native Spirit Film Festival/El Festival Espiritu Nativo
October 19 - 28, 2008, London, England
www.nativespiritfestival.com
12/01/08

O

The 5th annual Oxford Brookes University Human Rights Film Festival was held February 29 - March 9, 2008, in Oxford, England. Films with indigenous themes included Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations (director: Rebecca Somar), Rabbit Proof Fence (director: Phillip Noyes), and Abya Yala: This Land is Ours from Bolivia. For more information go to www.brookes.ac.uk/schools/be/cendep/humanrights.
2/25/08

P

The Provincetown International Film Festival, held June 17 - 21, 2008, screened approximately 50 short and feature films. The HBO Audience Award for Best Feature was given to Frozen River (director: Courtney Hunt), produced by Heather Rae and starring Melissa Leo and Misty Upham. The film, which is being distributed theatrically by SONY Pictures, is the story of two single mothers, one white, one Mohawk, who band together for economic survival by smuggling immigrants into the United States through the border-free Akwesasne-St. Regis Reservation. A second outstanding feature, with Native director and cast, was Older than America (director: Georgina Lightning), with actors Adam Beach, Lightning, and Wes Studi, which focuses on the devastating impact on a Native reservation of the boarding school experience.
8/19/08

R

Red Nation Film Festival
November 13 - 16, 2008, Los Angeles, California
www.rednation.com
12/01/08

Rotterdam International Film Festival
January 21 - February 1, 2009, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
http://professionals.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/.aspx

S

Sámi Film Festival
March 15 - 19, 2008, Kautokeino, Norway
www.samifilmfestival.no
4/8/08

Santa Fe Film Festival
December 3 - 7, 2008, Santa Fe, New Mexico
www.santafefilmfestival.com
1/31/09

Sundance Film Festival
January 15 - 25, 2009, Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah
www.sundance.org
1/31/09

T

Talking Stick Film Festival
June 21 - 26, 2008, Santa Fe, New Mexico
www.seedgraduateinstitute.org
6/30/08

Tribeca Film Festival
April 23 - May 4, 2008, New York, NY
www.tribecafilmfestival.org
5/20/08

V

Vancouver International Film Festival
September 25 - October 10, 2008, Vancouver, British Columbia
www.viff.org/home.html
12/01/08

W

Wairoa Maori Film Festival
May 30 - June 2, 2008, Auckland, Wellington and Taumarunui, Aotearoa (New Zealand)
www.manawairoa.com
6/30/08

Weeneebeg Aboriginal Film and Video Festival
March 5 - 9, 2008, Moose Factory, Ontario
www.weeneebeg.ca
4/8/08

Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival
November 20 - 23, 2008, Winnipeg, Manitoba
www.aboriginalfilmfest.org
12/01/08

** indicates that a short description of the film can be found in the PDFs of titles screened at the 1995, 1997 and 2000 Native American Film and Video Festivals. To open the PDF sorted by title, enter here.

Image credit: Carlos Efraín Pérez being interviewed by Marcelino Pinto, 2000 Native American Film and Video Festival - Photograph by Amalia Cordova, NMAI