AURORA invites artists to submit proposals for the Video Art Night 2026 program, taking place on the evening of April 17, 2026 at the AT&T Discovery District in Dallas, Texas, during a one-night free public art event that will transform the outdoor site.
Regional and national artists and collectives, aged 18 and above, are invited to propose their moving image artworks for the opportunity to be included in the 2026 VAN program.
International Open Call for visual artists to present their films at Kino Regina film theater as part of the Helsinki Analog Festival, Helsinki, Finland, in April 2026.
Submission deadline: December 21, 2025!
HELSINKI ANALOG FESTIVAL is a festival focusing on analog practices, organized by the Finnish Darkroom Association. The purpose of this festival is to bring together various institutions, researchers and artists working with analog practices.
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.
Frame + Frequency is an ongoing international new media, film, and video art screening and exhibition series presented by VisArts in Rockville, Maryland (a suburb of Washington, DC). The series highlights artists who explore contemporary visual culture through new media, experimental film, and video and presents an intimate panorama of the variety and breadth of video art in artistic practice today.
Calling all video poets—submissions for the 9th annual Cadence Video Poetry Festival are closing soon! Cadence Video Poetry Festival is a series of screenings, workshops, and discussions on the genre of video poetry, taking place during National Poetry Month. Submit by December 15 for a reduced fee, or start the new year off right and hit their late deadline on January 15.
After another amazing edition, Underneath The Floorboards' 15th Edition will continue our online event, which will be screened for a four weeks by our online platform: https://www.visualcontainer.tv/ which screens worldwide to maximises our international exposure. We got over ten thousand views last time around, and this time we're aiming for more. We have a live event also in the South of France in the city of Tarbes.
The Oberhausen Seminar is an experimental course that examines moving images and contemporary artistic practices in the context of an international film festival. It operates on the boundary between film and art, between festival programming and knowledge production. Interested parties can now apply for the 2026 Seminar, which will be led by artist, curator and scholar Linda Chiu-han Lai (Hong Kong).
The West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival invites submissions in video/film, animation, VR, video installation & performance to its 13th edition, which takes place March 4 - 8, 2026 on the campus of West Virginia University. We’re looking for innovative, provocative, highly charged and deeply personal works in a variety of genres and themes. This year we also welcome submissions to a special thematic category, exploring new insights into evolving definitions and understandings of Time, in all of its many contexts.
Detour is a film festival with a pure independent spirit. We believe true creativity and fine art is not entirely dependent on big budgets in order to flourish. Our aim is to support and promote films that are challenging and beautiful, those that speak to our hearts and make us think. We are looking for free-thinking films and filmmakers that create fantastic art despite the budgets and other limitations.
We want to see your best films either following a traditional narrative or a more challenging and experimental one, with true grit and low-budget mindframe.
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.
