CHROMA: Image & Sound is an experimental film and music festival based in Knoxville, Tennessee.
We present short and feature-length experimental films in conversation with hand-selected, carefully curated music. Rather than treating sound as accompaniment, each program is conceived as a dialogue between moving image and live ambient and experimental music, allowing both to shape the experience of time, space, and attention.
Submission fees:
Submission fees are charged
Location:
Knoxville, United States
Deadline:
Repeats every month on the 1 of March, April, May 3 times.
Curating the future through rooted experimental practices
interlaced.tv is an online platform dedicated to advancing the dialogue around analog video practices. It serves as both a curated exhibition and a dynamic space for artists, makers, and enthusiasts engaged with innovative and unconventional approaches to video art. By embracing resistance and imperfection, interlaced.tv celebrates a diverse range of independent, experimental works that interrogate the materiality and unpredictability of the moving image.
Regular submissions close March 15, 2026.
Submission fees:
Submission fees are charged
Location:
, Online
Deadline:
Repeats every week 1 times. Also includes Sat Apr 04 2026.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: THE FILM-MAKERS' COOPERATIVE 2026 NEW YEAR/NEW WORK FESTIVAL! SUBMIT YOUR FILM TODAY: tinyurl.com/nynw2026.
DEADLINE TO SUBMIT: APRIL 10, 2026, 11:59PM EST.
Calling all filmmakers, video-makers, and moving image artists! We are now accepting submissions for our 13th annual New Year/New Work festival. The festival will take place at The Film-Makers' Cooperative screening room over two evenings: Thursday, May 7th, and Friday, May 8th, at 7pm.
After a very successful second year, the third edition of Elevation Film Festival will be based at Real Ideas Organisation in Plymouth, alongside artist installations and workshops running at Maker Heights across the water in Cornwall. The festival will take place on 2-4th October 2026.
Elevation celebrates emerging voices in artistic, experimental, and expanded cinema across southwest England, the UK and internationally.
Named one of "the 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World" by MovieMaker Magazine in 2021
The Oak Cliff Film Festival was established in 2012 as a regional film festival in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas, Texas. The festival has received national acclaim from prominent sources including The New York Times, Filmmaker Magazine, and Moviemaker Magazine, as a festival that aims to showcase brave and independent filmmaking of all stripes in an atmosphere that encourages and fosters filmmaking in Dallas and beyond.
Submission fees:
Submission fees are charged
Location:
Dallas, United States
Deadline:
Repeats every week 1 times. Also includes Sun Mar 22 2026, Sun Apr 12 2026.
Call for Films Now Open! We're excited to announce that Altered Images is now accepting submissions — and our Early Bird period has officially begun!
Altered Images is a project dedicated to film and music experimentation, bringing together artists from diverse disciplines to create original, boundary-pushing works showcased at our upcoming event in London (UK).
We are seeking bold, innovative filmmakers from around the world whose work engages with New Media Arts, Sound, Performance, Inclusivity, Feminism, and Queer Activism.
Submission fees:
Submission fees are charged
Location:
London, United Kingdom
Deadline:
Repeats every month on the 16 of April, August 2 times.
Fugue State, presented by Disassociative Productions and Agitate21C, is a festival of experimental, radical, political, and avant-garde cinema of all sorts, including expanded cinema and VR experiments. The festival has traveled to multiple partner venues including The Film-Maker's Coop in NYC, Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts, Elastic Arts Foundation and Comfort Station in Chicago, and more.
Submission fees:
Fees charged - Waiver available
Location:
Chicago, United States
Deadline:
Repeats every week 1 times. Also includes Thu Apr 23 2026, Tue Jun 23 2026.
9th BEAST IFF – Festival of Central & East European Film June 3 - 7 2026 Porto, Portugal
Submissions: until April 30
Entering its 9th edition, BEAST International Film Festival is returning to Porto, turning it into the centre of Central & Eastern European cinema culture through screenings, masterclasses, workshops and several industry-related events.
InShadow is an international festival dedicated to screendance and moving image, held annually in Lisbon from mid-November to mid-December. We celebrate bold, innovative and hybrid works at the intersection of dance, cinema and visual arts. The festival program includes International Competitions in Videodance, Documentary and Animation, as well as performances, exhibitions, installations, workshops and masterclasses.
