Almaty Indie Film Festival

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Years running: 9 (since 2016)

Almaty Indie Film Festival

International Independent Low-budget Film Festival.

About

International Almaty Indie Film Festival created by agency Remedy with aim:

  • to represent independent, actual, low budget movie from whole piece;
  • to give a platform to share ideas and general meanings of talented cinematographers around the word.

The format of festival it is deferent from classic presentation — shows are going on open air every summer within 5 days in original language with subtitles.

Within the framework of the festival there are workshops about shooting low budget movie and their distribution.
This event are NOT commercial or government project.

The mission of the Almaty Indie Film Festival is to screen the best of low-budget independent film from around the world.

Awards

Film Awards: 
Feature Film (budget over $50k USD) 
Micro-budget Feature (budget under $50k USD) 
No-Budget Feature (budget under $20k USD) 
Short low budget Film (budget over $5k USD) 
Micro-budget Short Film (budget under $5k USD) 
No-Budget Short Film (budget under $2k USD) 
Female Director Low Budget Short film (budget over $5k USD) 
Short Documentary (budget under $3k USD) 
Animated Short (budget under $5k USD) 
Horror / Sci-Fi Short (budget under $5k USD) 
Music Video (budget under $5k USD) 

Rules

  • Accepted works finished by July 2022, not earlier.
  • Application for participation are accepted ONLY online.
  • The number of projects declared by one author is unlimited, but for each of them have to be filled on application form and fill each of them separate letter.

Selection Media Type: Internet (YouTube, Vimeo ).

Subtitle language: English. 

Premiere Requirements

No premiere requirement

Jury and Organizers

President — director Abdel Fyftybayev.

Organizers are “REMEDY” Creative Agency. 

Documents

Place

Kazakhstan
Almaty

Official Website

almatyfilmfest.com

Contacts

Adress: 

Abay st. 15, office 22
Kazakhstan, Almaty city 050015

Phone: +7 727 291 55 02
E-mail: 
hello@almatyfilmfest.com

Contact Emails

hello@almatyfilmfest.com

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Dates & Deadlines
  • Opening Date
    September 04, 2023
  • Earlybird Deadline
    October 31, 2023
  • Extended Deadline
    May 01, 2024
  • Regular Deadline
    May 21, 2024
  • Late Deadline
    June 24, 2024
  • Notifications
    July 07, 2024
  • Event Dates
    19 — 21 July 2024
Categories & Fees

Short film (max. 30 minutes).

  • Earlybird Deadline — $5
  • Extended Deadline — $13
  • Regular Deadline — $15
  • Late Deadline — $7

Short film (max. 30 minutes).

  • Earlybird Deadline — $5
  • Extended Deadline — $15
  • Regular Deadline — $20
  • Late Deadline — $7

Feature film (min. 60 minutes).

  • Earlybird Deadline — $5
  • Extended Deadline — $25
  • Regular Deadline — $30
  • Late Deadline — $10

Feature film (min. 60 minutes).

  • Earlybird Deadline — $5
  • Extended Deadline — $20
  • Regular Deadline — $25
  • Late Deadline — $10

Feature film (min. 60 minutes).

  • Earlybird Deadline — $5
  • Extended Deadline — $20
  • Regular Deadline — $25
  • Late Deadline — $10

Short film (max. 30 minutes).

  • Earlybird Deadline — $5
  • Extended Deadline — $20
  • Regular Deadline — $25
  • Late Deadline — $7

Short film (max. 30 minutes).

  • Earlybird Deadline — $5
  • Extended Deadline — $13
  • Regular Deadline — $15
  • Late Deadline — $5

Short film (max. 30 minutes).

  • Earlybird Deadline — $5
  • Extended Deadline — $15
  • Regular Deadline — $20
  • Late Deadline — $7

Short film (max. 30 minutes).

  • Earlybird Deadline — $5
  • Extended Deadline — $15
  • Regular Deadline — $20
  • Late Deadline — $7

Music Video (max. 7 minutes).

  • Earlybird Deadline — $3
  • Extended Deadline — $15
  • Regular Deadline — $20
  • Late Deadline — $5
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