Welcome beloved filmmaker! πŸŽ₯

Pure Magic International Film Festival is an independent film festival, located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Our main goal is to give more opportunities for people to be taken seriously in the industry. A laurel or certificate could certainly help with that! We want to celebrate creativity, diversity, and independence in productions. PureMagicIFF is therefore a monthly film festival 🍿

Different from most film festivals is that we don't decline low budget productions. We will watch every single production we receive with pride. We know how hard it is as a filmmaker and therefore we will respect your baby ❀️ We are also IMDb verified!
This is our first year so we are celebrating! πŸŽ‰ We can't wait to watch all of your submissions!

Thank you!

The Pure Magic Team πŸ’«

After our jury makes the "Official Selection" decision, we will pick the best ones out of all those projects. The filmmaker will receive a notification of that through email. Some of our categories are listed below:

πŸ’« Best Feature Film
πŸ’« Best Short Film
πŸ’« Best Drama
πŸ’« Best Thriller
πŸ’« Best Action
πŸ’« Best Fantasy / Adventure
πŸ’« Best Romance
πŸ’« Best Comedy
πŸ’« Best Horror
πŸ’« Best Erotic Film
πŸ’« Best Sci-Fi
πŸ’« Best Crime/Gangster Film
πŸ’« Best Mystery Film
πŸ’« Best VFX
πŸ’« Best LGBTQ Feature
πŸ’« Best LGBTQ Short
πŸ’« Best Western
πŸ’« Best Musical
β€‹πŸ’« Best Animated Feature
πŸ’« Best Animated Short
πŸ’« Best Documentary
πŸ’« Best Micro Film (up to 1 Min)
πŸ’« Best Music Video (up to 5 Mins)

⭐️ Best Director
⭐️ Best Screenplay
⭐️ Best Leading Actor
⭐️ Best Leading Actress
⭐️ Best Supporting Actor
⭐️ Best Supporting Actress
⭐️ Best Score
⭐️ Best Editing
⭐️ Best Pornographic Film
⭐️ Best Production Design
⭐️ Best Visual Effects
⭐️ Best Cinematography
⭐️ Best Student Film
⭐️ Best Trailer (Up to 3 Mins)
⭐️ Best Concept
⭐️ Best TV Series
⭐️ Best Web Series

All the winning projects will receive a Pure Magic Laurel to put on your poster and a Special Designed Official Certificate to show everyone proudly what a great winner you are! 😍 The winners will be announced through an email. If you have received the news that you won, you will receive your official certificates and laurels as soon as possible! This may take some time, but just know that we're working on it πŸ’–

The filmmaker/creator/company that is submitting the production must own the rights to do so and is responsible for the content they are providing. Furthermore you agree to the following:

-You agree to use parts of your film (including trailer/teaser/film poster) for eventual promotional purpose.
- Entry fees are non-refundable.
- You must own all the rights to the film or have permission to use any songs included in your film.
-You agree to promote our festival on any and all social media pages

Pure Magic International Film Festival does accept the following:
1. Films by passionate filmmakers regardless of sex, race, or country of origin.
2. Films with nudity.
3. Films that push the envelope or think outside the box.
4. Films in other languages if they HAVE English or Dutch subtitles.
5. Erotic and Pornographic Films.

Pure Magic International Film Festival does not accept the following:
1. Extremist or propaganda content from religious or political organizations.
2. Films that encourage hate, racism, transphobia, homophobia, etc.
3. Political films.
4. Films which are made before 2015.
5. Films with a poor production standard (bad sound, lack of subtitles/captions for non-English films, video resolution less than 720p HD).
6. Films without English Subtitles (if in another language).

Rights
By submitting your film to our festival you agree that your piece of work (trailer, stills, poster, etc) "can" be uploaded/embed on our website. The filmmaker/institution that is submitting the film must own the rights to do so and is responsible for the content they are providing. The entry fee and services fee is not refundable and we do not provide any feedback whether your project has been selected or not.

How does it work?
After all submissions are complete for the month and provided your film is not only accepted but also wins some form of award. Unfortunately we don't share the wins on our website or social media anymore. If you win, we will email the certificates and laurels to the email that's written on the submitted project page. People often think that we award every production, but that is not true! We will watch every single project and only hand out awards if we actually feel the need to.

Disclaimer
By entering your film for consideration for PureMagicIFF, you authorize that your work is cleared for festival exhibition and accept full legal responsibility for the intellectual property therein. Entry into the festival constitutes permission to exhibit your work online at PureMagicIFF. PureMagicIFF is also hereby granted the right to utilize the e-mails through which the entries were submitted as well as excerpts from any film submitted and accepted for exhibition at the Festival for promotional purposes. The undersigned shall indemnify and hold harmless PureMagicIFF from and against any and all claims, liabilities, losses, damages, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney’s fees, and costs of the court) which may be incurred by reason of any claim involving copyright, trademark, credits, publicity, screening, and loss of or damage to the screening videos entered. By submitting your film via FilmFreeway, you acknowledge that the festival will not pay to present your work.

We reserve the right to omit a particular award if we didn't receive enough entries in that category or if none of the submissions met our high judging standards. If we deem it appropriate, additional categories of awards may be presented. All nominees and winners will have laurels and certificates sent to them through email. No psychical awards in this festival.

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  • Stew Replogle

    The Families Feud was honored and grateful to have won the Best Feature Film award in 2022 at the Pure Magic International film festival. Someday, I hope to visit the beautiful city of Amsterdam to thank them in person. Until then, continued success with your magical fest! πŸ™πŸ†πŸŽ₯

    February 2023
  • Ingrid Gans

    It was a pleasure to have been part of the Pure Magic International Film Festival. Thank you and all the best to the organizing team.

    January 2023
  • A good job for its first year - my four start ratings are based on the fact that one can't know just how valuable the festival will be just a week after its first edition.
    * The categories are excellent especially because they include some typically overlooked such as "voice over / narration".
    * I definitely recommend that the festival's website list award winners as part of its history and to document the winners.

    January 2023
  • A great honor for me and amazing joy. God bless you all. THANK YOU !

    January 2023
  • Rafael de Andrade

    I couldn't find the name of the winners on the website. There are no social networks listed in the festival profile.

    December 2022