Atlanta Award-Qualifying Film Festival (USA)
Awards & Prizes:
- Best Film;
- Best Short Film;
- Best Producer;
- Best Score Special Award;
- Best Narrative Feature;
- Best Foreign Film;
- Best Narrative Short;
- Best Music Video;
- Best Documentary Feature;
- Best Screenplay;
- Best Documentary Short;
- Best Student Film;
- Best Experimental;
- Best Animation;
- Best Director;
- Best Actor;
- Best Actress;
- Best Film Audience Award;
- Best Actor Audience Award;
- Best Actress Audience Award;
With over 25 award categories, it is also possible for entrants to receive multiple nominations for more than one project. All festival nominees and winners are selected by a jury of film industry professionals from Europe, the USA, and Canada.
A selection of the jury's favorite films will be screened at our annual event. Entrants of chosen screening films will be notified prior to the event.
Award 2024: Nominated
Title: Migrant Workers and Affordable Housing
Director: April Pang
Writer: April Pang
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 11 minutes
Year 2023
Trailer: https://youtu.be/tBGwNjXKpiU
很特别和真实的纪录片，短短的十一分钟让我们近距离接触了片中主人公的生活。
A very special and real documentary, in just eleven minutes it allows us to get close to the lives of the protagonists in the film.
2023 Awards
Best Documentary Award
Title: The Road Never Ends
Winner
Director: Micheal Mouaness
Best Short Film
Title: Graduation
Winner
Director: Yiwen Cao
Rules & Terms:
1. Submission Deadlines
Submissions are also accepted from Filmfreeway.
2. Submission Format
Films must be submitted via online screener.
3. Submission Eligibility
- There is no premiere policy for short films and music videos.
Works-in-progress and films with distribution are accepted.
4. Premiere Status
There is no Premiere policy for short films and music videos, they may have screened at other Festivals and/or online.
5. Submission Fee
All submissions for Film Festival are to be paid by credit card. The submission fee is non-refundable.
6. Selection of Films
Submissions are reviewed and selected under the following criteria:
- Quality of narrative and production values
- Independent nature of the production
7. Festival Awards
Best Film; Best Short Film; Best Producer; Best Score Special Award; Best Narrative Feature; Best Foreign Film; Best Narrative Short; Best Music Video; Best Documentary Feature; Best Screenplay; Best Documentary Short; Best Student Film; Best Experimental; Best Animation; Best Director; Best Actor; Best Actress; Best Film Audience Award; Best Actor Audience Award; Best Actress Audience Award;
If shortlisted for a Jury prize, additional preview copies of the film must be provided or authorised by the submitting party if requested by Film Festival.
Festival Contact Information:
Contact Information Displayed publicly
Website:
https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0025445/2023/1
Submission requests email:
atlantainternationalfilm@gmail.com
Opening Date:
January 25, 2024
Phone:
+ 1 416-412-5000
Earlybird Deadline:
August 12, 2024
Regular Deadline:
November 12, 2024
Submission Address:
My festival has the same submission address.
Late Deadline:
January 12, 2024
Extended Deadline:
June 24, 2025
Notification Date:
April 28, 2025
Event Date:
June 29, 2025 to June 30, 2025
The additional 9th Atlanta Award-Qualifying Film Festival, 10th session of the Cinema New York City and New York International Film Festival 11th sessions would be held in Kennesaw State University, Georgia (USA) and New York City in 29th of April, 2023 in 4 screening rooms. This is a global industry real event held together with the other wirld wide screenings in 63 world’s cities and countries. It will bring new films and audiences together in locales that are international centers of the arts, creating a meeting place for filmmakers and movie fans. Welcome to screening network and screen your film in different locations at one time!
Kennesaw State University (KSU) is a public research University in the state of Georgia with two campuses in the Atlanta metropolitan area, one in Kennesaw and the other in Marietta on a combined 581 acres (235 ha) of land. The school was founded in 1963 by the Georgia Board of Regents using local bonds and a federal space-grant during a time of major Georgia economic expansion after World War II. KSU also holds classes at the Cobb Galleria Centre, Dalton State College, and in Paulding County (Dallas). The total enrollment exceeds 43,000 students making KSU the second-largest university by enrollment in Georgia while also having the largest freshman class in the state as well.
Selected films in the last session:
Atlanta Award-Qualifying Film Festival is an international film festival with a special focus on the region of USA/Canada:
(New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas, San Jose, Austin, Jacksonville, San Francisco, Indianapolis, Columbus, Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver), shining an international spotlight on films, talent and future projects from the region.
High quality programming, a strong industry segment, an educational and networking platform for young filmmakers and thus generated presence of the international film industry, film authors and media representatives alongside a paying audience of over 20,000, confirm its status as the leading film festival in the region, recognised by both professionals and the wider audiences.