Avalonia Festival of Short Films etc

OVERVIEW:

Avalonia Festival of Short Films etc. is an international competition with a variety of genres for every filmmaker. Our genres have three "run time" divisions for Shorts (21 minutes & under), "180" (3 minutes & under), and 1-minute movies. The shorter your film and the earlier you enter, the lower your entry fee! You may enter your project into more than one category and you may enter as many projects as you wish (each project must be entered separately, of course!)

HONOR. CELEBRATE. PROMOTE. This is the mantra of Avalonia Festival, a film festival you can trust! Low entry fees and a website that actually HONORS, CELEBRATES, and PROMOTES you and your work as a filmmaker, photographer, and Actor!

RECENT HISTORY:

On November 6, 2021, we returned to Jacksonville, Florida for Avalonia Festival VI. You can see photos and videos from the event here:
https://avaloniafestival.com/vi/

On November 5, 2022, we returned to Jacksonville's LionShare CoWork Auditorium for our Avalonia Festival VII Live Event. You can see the Award Winners here and photos and videos from the event once it occurs:
https://avaloniafestival.com/vii/

Photos & videos from Avalonia Festival V in Ormond Beach, Florida on November 7, 2020 are here:
https://avaloniafestival.com/film-fest-v/

For Avalonia Festival V, we were very pleased to go "on with the show" and have a safe and fun Live Event despite the worldwide circumstances that caused many events to be canceled worldwide!

MISSION:

We aim to help our Award Winners add resume-building Award credentials that are shared and celebrated through our website, social media outlets, and our annual Live Events. For those with projects accepted, we encourage you to share the word that you are part of the Avalonia Festival community.

We believe in Avalonia.

We believe in Excellence in Artistry.

We believe in YOU; the Independent Filmmaker and Artist.

AVALONIA FESTIVAL ORIGINS AND LEGACY:

Go to the home page on our website (hyperlinked on the left side-bar) or copy and paste the below URLs to experience Avalonia Festival I, II, III, IV & V to see how we HONOR, CELEBRATE & PROMOTE our Winning Avalonia Filmmakers Etc (and how we've since added separate festivals for Theater and Photography!)

Avalonia Festival IV, December 8, 2019, from All Beaches Experimental Theatre in Neptune Beach, Florida, USA
https://avaloniafestival.com/avalonia-festival-iv/

Avalonia Festival III, December 7, 2018, from Courthouse Center for the Arts in West Kingston, Rhode Island, USA (near the University of Rhode Island)
https://avaloniafestival.com/avalonia-festival-iii/

Avalonia Festival II April 20, 2018 from Rhodywood Studios, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
https://avaloniafestival.com/avalonia-festival-ii/

**We had two Avalonia Festivals in 2018 before landing on our annual format.

Avalonia Festival (our first event) December 7, 2017, from Rhodywood Studios, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
https://avaloniafestival.com/avalonia-festival/

Our Circle of Champions (a collection of graphics from some of our Award Winners)
https://avaloniafestival.com/avalonia-festival/avalonia-awards/

Our new "APC" - Avalonia Photography Competition
https://avaloniafestival.com/afp/

Check out our video here about our great home venue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEiCdx6f-9g

FURTHER INFO:

HONOR. CELEBRATE. PROMOTE. This is the mantra of Avalonia Festival, a film festival you can trust! Low entry fees and a website that actually HONORS, CELEBRATES, and PROMOTES you and your work as a filmmaker, photographer, and/or Actor!

Our web pages aim to promote our festival's winners! We know that most filmmakers cannot travel to make all the festivals they are accepted into; so we make our jam-packed website an INTERACTIVE experience for the filmmaker and their fans! When every Avalonia Filmmaker sends their fans to our website, they are exposing EVERY OTHER WINNING FILMMAKER to new film fans and connections! Compare our website to any other festival and see that we earn your entry fees!

Many films (or their teasers or stills) are right on our website!

Our concentration is on short films 21 minutes and under!

Films 3 minutes or 1 minute or less in duration get additional savings on entry fees!

Some categories like our Podcast and Web-Series have longer run time cut-offs.

In addition to many traditional and unique genres to enter your film in; including Drama, Comedy, Doc, and Romantic Comedy.

When deemed appropriate, Special Recognition Awards to entering artists have been given out, such as our Avalonia Christiana Carteaux Bannister Award for Civil Service in the Arts.

Recently, we added our Pandemic, Holiday, Family/Children, and Environmental Documentary categories.

This year, we have added TRUE CRIME and DANCE & MOVEMENT categories.

Here is our youtube page with video clips from our previous Live Events
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxxeZv9F7xNiZa7Ghpc59DiG7T7zn5GzA

Here's a local news video report on Avalonia Festival IV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP2BTeJqHmI

Here is an interview about Avalonia Festival, conducted shortly before Avalonia Festival II :
https://festivalreviews.org/2018/03/03/interview-with-festival-director-mike-messier-avalonia-film-festival/

How we got our name AVALONIA:

Avalonia Festival is named in honor of a continent lost is the mists of time, as if dissipated by magic; thus we are here to celebrate the unique Art of our own world of creation, lead by our host Jean La Croix Distance. More from Jean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DXSL7gJDI4

How did our Festival Creator come to the point in life where Avalonia was so important? Discover by watching the informative and fun video "Disregard the Vampire - A Mike Messier Documentary" about indie filmmaking here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9jFqZCB9o4&t=171s