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| x name | x image | x Festivals with this focus | x article |
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| x Indie |
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Sundance Film Festival |
An independent film, or indie film, is a film that is produced outside of any major film studio. Originally, this term denoted independence from MGM, Paramount Pictures, RKO, Warner Bros., Universal Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox, the 7 major...
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| Raindance Film Festival | |||
| Telluride Film Festival | |||
| Ann Arbor Film Festival | |||
| x Spanish Language |
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Donostia-San Sebastián International Film Festival |
Spanish (español), sometimes called Castilian (castellano), is a Romance language that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade. It was taken most...
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| x Animation |
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Ottawa International Animation Festival |
Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. It is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and...
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| Hiroshima International Animation Festival | |||
| Annecy International Animated Film Festival | |||
| Anima Mundi | |||
| KROK International Animated Films Festival | |||
| x Student |
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Ivy Film Festival |
The word student is etymologically derived through Middle English from the Latin second-type conjugation verb "studēre", meaning "to direct one's zeal at"; hence a student could be described as 'one who directs zeal at a subject'. In its widest use,...
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| x Student Film | Fresh Film Festival | ||
| x South American cinema |
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Festival de Gramado |
Latin American cinema refers collectively to the film output and film industries of Latin America. Latin American film is both rich and diverse. But the main centers of production have been Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and Cuba.
Latin American cinema...
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| x Film noir |
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San Francisco Film Noir Festival |
Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize moral ambiguity and sexual motivation. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as stretching from the early...
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| x Documentary |
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Hot Docs |
Television documentary also known as a TV documentary is a documentary film made specially for television stations or for specialty documentary channels, or in case of political and historical documentary subjects in news channels, without the...
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| Silverdocs | |||
| x LGBT |
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San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival |
LGBT (or GLBT) is an initialism referring collectively to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. In use since the 1990s, the term “LGBT” is an adaptation of the initialism “LGB” which itself started replacing the phrase “gay community”...
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| Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival | |||
| Gay Film Nights | |||
| Houston gay and lesbian film festival | |||
| Lisbon Gay & Lesbian Film Festival | |||
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| x Horror |
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Terror Film Festival |
Horror fiction is a genre of fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of a supernatural element into everyday human experience. Since...
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