Dear Filmmaker 2020 festival will be 15 years of working with Indy film across our festivals, the London International Filmmaker Festival Of World Cinema is a unique film and unproduced script event in its 10th year that is celebrating the best and most popular independent and studio films from the global film industry, and has wonderful opportunities for the business of film.

Our London International Film Festival is all held in one convenient location; All of the screenings, workshops, meetings, networking, industry professionals, Awards Night and even hotel rooms. That means that we will always be there, supporting you and your project from before the Festival starts to the closing ceremony. So we won’t be hard to find, or difficult to locate, we know how important it is for Festival organisers to be on hand and to supply that all important personal touch. How do we know? We know because we already have huge experience in running other Film Festivals and from that we also know how to make it a better experience for you. With us , it will be.

Independent filmmakers and creatives face many challenges; the large competition for viewers’ attention, finding funding and getting a distributor can only be overcome by the industry coming together and creating opportunities for those who need and deserve it. Our Festival’s aim are to create an opportunity for filmmakers to show their work to the right audience at our intimate and relaxing events, and get one step closer to success by receiving recognition for their art.

We will put your movie in front of industry professional, who will offer advice and in some cases distribution, we offer some of the best networking opportunities of any small festival, because we keep all filmmaker together, we offer screening free to all nominated filmmakers and there guests, we offer meetings free with the industry professionals that will give you advice and information on future funding, sales, marketing, not only theatrical but television and online, as well as other possible sales. all events at the festival for filmmakers are free except the awards night, there is no obligation to attend the awards night all the festival is still free, to all filmmaker and there guests, we have filmmaker return with there new films year after year, because of what they have achieved with us.

We have built a small but exceptional professional network of industry professional that will look at all nominated films entered and will give business and commercial advice, in some cases the distributors attending will make offers to the filmmakers for their work and to work together to put your movies and unproduced script in the market place, we have the people and skills in our professional team to make this happen, if the professional attending feel there is a market for your movie or unproduced script, they will as with many films over the years of our other festival make things happen.

We are unique in the amount of platforms and festival we offer filmmakers, we can create a ripple for your movie to be seen around the world, it all starts here by entering your movie.

The Festival is very keen to discover new talent and act as a springboard for creation. The development of the producers network gives filmmakers an opportunity to pitch there future production.

London International Filmmaker Festival Of World Cinema will culminate in a glamorous red carpet awards ceremony recognising unrivalled ideas, productions and film concepts. The Prestige’s Filmmaker Award is presented to the finest films entered, named as a highly prized industry award that recognises those willing to make those final steps to reach the peak of their profession. The International Filmmaker Film Festival of World Cinema is a global forum for you to network, discover future trends and achieve commercial success on a worldwide level.

Over the week this unique one-stop media community gives you the chance to network and do business with other like-minded creative filmmakers and their representatives from around the globe, including some of the filmmakers in competition for the prestigious Filmmaker Award. Book your accreditation to talk movies with the filmmaker planning or in production on films to be released for the global market.

London International Filmmaker Festival Of World Cinemal, we put you the filmmaker in front of potential investors in any new production you may be considering, we put your movie in front of potential distribution and sales to look at the possibility of offering you real deals and real help for you the filmmaker, look at our program read the short bios of the professional attending, join us and put your movie in a market place.

Carl Tooney - Festival President
www.filmmakerfestival.com

The Prestigious International Filmmaker Award is awarded

London International Filmmaker Festival Of World Cinema has as its objective the promotion of cinematographic art by presenting films of quality and entertainment. The International Filmmaker Festival is an annual event held in London, It is possible that each film nominated may be presented more than once, now in our 10th year

Our London Film Festival is all held in one convenient location; All of the screenings, workshops, meetings, networking, industry professionals, Awards Night and even hotel rooms. That means that we will always be there, supporting you and your project from before the Festival starts to the closing ceremony. So we won’t be hard to find, or difficult to locate, we know how important it is for Festival organisers to be on hand and to supply that all important personal touch. How do we know? We know because we already have huge experience in running other Film Festivals and from that we also know how to make it a better experience for you. With Fusion, it will be.

Independent filmmakers and creatives face many challenges; the large competition for viewers’ attention, finding funding and getting a distributor can only be overcome by the industry coming together and creating opportunities for those who need and deserve it. Our Festival’s aim are to create an opportunity for filmmakers to show their work to the right audience at our intimate and relaxing events, and get one step closer to success by receiving recognition for their art.

London International Filmmaker Festival Of World Cinema is like no other International film Festival, we put you the filmmaker in front of potential investors in any new production you may be considering, we put your movie in front of potential distribution and sales to look at the possibility of offering you real deals and real help for you the filmmaker, look at our program read the short bios of the professional attending, join us and put your movie in a market place.

(a) Feature films, documentaries and short subjects of any genre on DVD and video are selected by invitation, according to quality.

(b) London International Filmmaker Festival Of World Cinema is competitive.

All films in a language other than English must be subtitled in English, unless dialogue or commentary is unnecessary for comprehension and appreciation. In the exceptional event that an unsubtitled print is accepted, English dialogue lists are required.

London International Filmmaker Festival Of World Cinema reserves the right to use excerpts from submitted work for promotional purposes only. The Festival is open to the public. If your submission is officially selected, the festival may screen your film as part of their activities to assist in the sale of your movie for up to 12 months after the festival date. By sending us your submission, you agree with this.

The decisions of the programmers and jury is final and irrevocable TV and film buyers and distributors also participate. Official or professional national organisations and individuals may submit feature and short films to the Festival. Films submitted for pre-selection should arrive no later than 7th November 2018, all shipping costs of films must be borne by the sender please clearly mark any DVD as no value. it is the London International Filmmaker Festival Of World Cinema policy not to offer comments and reasons for films not selected for the programme.

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  • London International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema is not just a festival. It is the opportunity for filmmakers around the world to show their creations and connect with other filmmakers, It is the first time that a festival gives me a value of that size. The communication with people of the festival could not be better. Every time I had a question they answered immediately. They were attentive, detailed, thoughtful, awesome, friendly, communicative. I really look forward to next year and will definitely be taking another film there. Amazing experience.

    March 2020
  • Pankaja Brooke

    Living in London I found that it was harder to attend the evening sessions, more travelling in bad weather - so I can't really comment about them. But Carl, Adam, Rodrigo and the the rest of the team were very friendly and helpful - even putting on an extra showing of one of my films when some friends couldn't make it to an earlier showing... I really appreciate these festivals - and saw some very interesting films. Thanks guys! Pankaja

    February 2020
  • Carmen Molinar

    a great festival for marketing & meeting other filmmakers.
    Carl, Adam & the whole team are really smart, helping with everything and offering a great gala dinner.

    March 2019
  • Ian Montgomery

    Another festival that offers really poor communication with film makers. I was a finalist in the festival yet some 6 weeks later have had zero notification on who won. The category I entered is also not listed on their website amongst the winners lists. Sadly it’s just another festival designed to fleece filmmakers of their money.

    March 2019
    Filmmaker v1
    Response from festival:

    Hi Ian

    My apologies if we have communicated poorly. I can actually see an e-mail thread where your messages were replied to within 24 hours so I can only apologise if there has been some kind of mistake here.

    I can also assure you that your category is online. We post all of the winners in the week after each Festival and London 2019 was no different. I can see you were nominated in VFX and also Cinematography and I'm afraid you didn't win in either. The following link was publicised across all of our Social Media accounts and this page has been viewed thousands of times by all of the attending Filmmakers ... http://www.filmfestinternational.com/london-iff-2019-winners/

    If you would like to discuss further, any concerns you have, please e-mail filmmaker@filmfestinternational.com.

  • Joe Cornet

    This is one of the best festival experiences I have had. The whole event is very well managed and the entire staff is very professional. The array of discussion panels proved informative and valuable. The location and accommodations for the event are excellent. Additionally, there are many international networking opportunities . This is a festival that truly loves film and filmmakers!

    March 2019