International Activism Film Festival #IAFF2022 Begins This Weekend

Updated Tues., August 9th Happy summer! Here’s a recent #IAFF2022 Program. We’ll be screening online many of our selected submissions this season for #IAFF2022 International Activism Film Festival, which began Sat., July 23rd and has been extended an extra week, through Sun., August 21st.

Please browse today! Gift subscriptions are also available to purchase – be sure to pick up a few for all your peeps, including your showrunners, producers, cast, crew and potential distributors. Also, your fans, family, friends ….current and future employers …your cat! Here’s a lot of links. View many of our previous film festival trailers. View our previous activism film festival trailers.

We typically publish nominations and awards from one to up to three weeks following the conclusion of festival events. All festival screeners are eligible for nominations and awards. We typically publish “All Submitters” following the publication of nominations and awards. Here’s previous Awards, Nominees and Programs.

We’re now living “off-grid” in the Ozarks, just north of Yellville, AR, about 40 minutes south of Branson, MO. Due to increasing popularity for our film festivals and projects, we’re experiencing unusual financial, technical and myriad new challenges.

As everyone knows, gasoline is so much more expensive lately. Getting to office space and high-speed wifi locations for uploading and downloading is costing us! We’re needing new laptops, hard drives, power supplies, etc. We’re needing operating funds to pay monthly and annual fees to maintain screening and hosting platforms and services. Thank you for your support!

Normally, we begin our season with all of our screeners uploaded to our screening platform. Usually, we start to offer them all on the starting date. However, this year, we’re trying something new.

We’ve been adding screeners every few days since August 23rd. We regret we are (often) unable to screen online all of our selections. Many filmmakers are just too busy to respond to their selection in our film festival and we never hear back from them! Consequently, without confirmation and access, we’re unable to download and re-upload their files for screening online.

Sometimes (rarely) our screening platform, Vimeo OTT, experiences technical difficulties. Files we’ve already attempted to upload turn out to not have uploaded completely. We occasionally have to re-request and re-download selected submissions from submitters and re-upload them.

We totally appreciate your love and tolerance this season!  Here are a few posters for some of this season’s submitted and/or selected films, music and scripts. Also, many of these are screeners, #IAFF2022. Find more, here. More posters and headshots.

 

Starting #IAFF2023, we’ll be accepting only SHORT film/video submissions, under & equal to 40 minutes. Please use the SHORT FILM category. We’ll still be accepting music video submissions under 6 minutes. Please use the MUSIC VIDEO category.

We’ll still be accepting scripts of all lengths. If you would like to submit your music/song, photography or art that do not qualify in these categories, or you have trouble submitting, please don’t hesitate to contact us for special instructions and assistance.

#IAFF2022 through August 13th

The following titles are available now, just click on links to watch.

 

1. Best of Me (4 Mins 24 Secs) by DIEGO STAVITZKI, GIL MOURA – BRAZIL
2. The Innocents (1 Hour 20 Mins) by Wojciech Lorenc – USA
3. My Whole Life Changed (1 Hour 17 Mins) by Joel Bowling, Kymaree Carter, Amari Dooley, Amya Eley, Jana Horner, Shaye Lyons, Abigail Meyers, Kayden Shelton, Whitney Thuma, Torrie Woodrow, Robyn Benedek, Tom Dugdale, April Deacon – USA
4. The Power of Connection (1 Hour 4 Mins) by Isabel Hundt – USA
5. In Search of a Better World (1 Hour 18 Mins) by Mary Darling, Robbie Hart – CANADA
6. Activismo: Art & Dissidence in Cuba(43 Mins 10 Secs) by Philip Sugden, Carole Elchert – CANADA
7. Iric (12 Mins 18 Secs) by Sandra Tamkin – USA
8. Myrtle (15 Mins 39 Secs) by Patricia McCormack – United Kingdom
9. Seaturtle Watcher (36 Mins) by Andrea Fiorito – ITALY
10. South32 Mining’s Exit Route (32 Mins) by Michele Gisser – USA
11. Deep Clean Water (20 Mins) by Kevin Rumley – SWITZERLAND
12. Running Home: The Run4Water Story (25 Mins 32 Secs) by Katie Spotz – USA
13. Yellowstone 88 – Song of Fire(5 Mins 44 Secs) by Jerry van de Beek, Betsy De Fries – USA
14. Ill N’y Aura Pas de Montagnes Assez Hautes/ No Mountains Will Ever be High Enough (29 Mins 45 Secs) by Jérôme de Gerlach – FRANCE
15. The Melody Lingers On (35 Mins and 22 Secs) by Kimberley R. Williams – USA
16. Tahriib (Those Who Travel North) (1 Hour 26 Mins 30 Secs) by Daniel Smith – USA
17. A Better Place (32 Mins 44 Secs) by Jennifer Fearnley – United Kingdom
18. Flow & Rive (1 Hour 3 Mins 18 Secs) by Danielle Rotholi – Germany
19. Unconquered (44 Mins 13 Secs) by Fredrick Earl Mosley – USA
20. In a Whole New Way (31 Mins 06 Secs) by Jonathan Fisher – USA
21. Beyond Sand Creek (1 Hour) by Alan O’Hashi – USA
22. The Trust Game Episode 1 Crowns & Sovereigns (46 Mins 12 Secs) by Aaron Dykes, Melissa Dykes – USA
23. In the Stream of Consciousness (11 Mins 40 Secs) by  Carlos Severe Marcelin – USA
24. Sooty Owls: War with China (2 Mins 45 Secs) by Peter C Downey – Australia
25. Uncut (17 Mins 43 Secs) by Mark Hensley – USA
26. The Dalmatians: Far Away Man by  (4 Mins 15 Secs) by William (Wil) Bryant Allen – Australia
27. Synergy (44 Mins) by Max Alzamora – Peru
28. I Have a Dream (21 Mins) by Nancy Mac Granaky-Quaye – Germany
29. The Power of the People: A Collective Struggle for Life and the Environment/ El Poder del Pueblo (41 Mins 10 Secs) by José Luis Baerga Aguirre – Puerto Rico
30. Fighting Indians (1 Hour 56 Mins) by Mark Cooley, Derek Ellis – USA
31. Pinks (11 Mins 52 Secs) by Emilie Biason – Portugal
32. The Cost of Free Water (52 Mins 20 Secs) by Jeremie Battaglia – Canada
33. The Turtles of Ontario (30 Mins 01 Secs) by Egor Trushin – Canada
34. Apache Leap (1 Hour 22 Mins 41 Secs) by Christian Rozier – USA
35. The Energy of Water (11 Mins 18 Secs) by Jennifer Jordon, Sean Sullivan – USA
36. The Trail Docent  (13 Mins 33 Secs) by Shannon Keri Hogan – USA
37. Indiana Baby (1 Hour 22 Min 33 Secs) by Jennifer Martin Eliason – USA
38. The Fellowship of the Springs (1 Hour 37 Mins 45 Secs) by Oscar Corral – USA
39. Maybe Not Today (15 Mins 24 Secs) by Obi Martins – USA
40. Who Will Remain? (1 Hour) by Emily Felder, Christa Whitney – USA
41. Hardest Day (2 Hours 14 Mins 3 Secs) by Robert F Carter – USA
42. Change of Course (9 Mins 13 Secs) by Andreas Ortner – Austria
43. Beam Me Up (2 Mins 51 Secs) by Lana Boy – USA
44. #tresdancing (22 Mins) by Hingman Leung – Canada
45. Night, Mother(1 Hour 4 Mins 44 Secs) by John Patrick Lowri – USA
46. Who Cares About DC?(56 Mins 37 Secs) by Stephen Kolb – USA
47. Skin Deep Fear(54 Mins 46 Secs) by Franck – France
48. Sea Beyond the Glitz(15 Mins 4 Secs) by Anna Maité Kaplan – USA
49. The Count (12 Mins 48 Secs) by Jake Isaacs – USA
50. Uncovering the Permian Climate Bomb (13 Mins 46 Secs) by Miguel Escoto, Sharon Wilson – USA
51. Aquariums: The Dark Hobby(55 Mins 42 Secs) by Paula Fouce – USA
52. The Game is Up(1 Hour 53 Mins 38 Secs) by Melissa Jo Peltier – USA
53. My Mom’s Co-op(1 Hour 19 Mins 9 Secs) by Ève Lamont – Canada
54. Common Grounds? (28 Mins 32 Secs) by Raed Truett Gilliam – USA
55. Poetry Zaban (58 Mins 33 Secs) by Prof. Amir Har-Gil – Israel
56. Living in a Postcard (53 Mins 25 Secs) by Christian Nicoletta – Italy
57. However Wide the Sky: Places of Power (57 mins 9 Secs) by David Aubrey – USA
58. A Complicated Word(43 Mins 11 Secs) by Albor Rodríguez, Héctor Torres – Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
59. HA NII TOKXW: OUR FOOD TABLE (39 Mins 19 Secs) by Farhan Umedaly – Canada
60. Locked On (20 Mins 26 Secs) by Matt Hrkac – Australia
61. 1986. December chronicles. A glimmer of the truth. (1 Hour 39 Mins 41 Secs)  by Assiya Baigozhina – Kazakhstan
62. Celebrating Caren (15 Mins) by Daniel DeFabio – USA

Please subscribe to watch online. Submitters, please provide us with your poster, headshot, stills, trailer and submission downloads only via FilmFreeway and/or Vimeo, 1920 x 1080. Unfortunately, while we’re able to view your submission file, we’re not able to download your submission file from YouTube. We also maintain this dropbox to upload your files.

Due to “pandemic” craziness, #CIAFF2021 event started July 23 and was viewed online 24/7 through August 13, 2021. #CIAFF2020 was held online July 24 – August 14. That year, we received 100+ submissions. Nominees, awards and more, here.

Thanks to our wonderful viewers, submitters, supporters, judges, and volunteers! Starting 2022, we’re changing our name to better reflect our growing online and international appeal. We’re now #IAFF2022 “International Activism Film Festival.” Please make a note of it. Learn more here.

Unless you hear otherwise, we’re planning #ISFFF2022 International SciFi & Fantasy Film Festival also online this year. Please consult the Vimeo OTT platform directly for additional rules and guidelines, here. We very much appreciate your positive reviews. Thanks for sharing our laurels, awards and posts with your social media to include Pinterest, Meetup, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. We anticipate submissions from many countries. As our festival grows locally in popularity & sponsorship, we hope to invite partners & volunteers.

We hope to hold panels and debates. In the meantime, our events may be lightly attended, so please plan accordingly. All plans and practices are subject to change without notice. If you’re interested in volunteering, helping judge submissions and/or writing film & music reviews, which we may publish at our websites, please don’t hesitate to TEXT/CALL (720) 298-1524.