Sheffield Doc/Fest is looking for film submissions for next year’s festival, which will take place in 2011 from 8 to 12 June.

Sheffield Doc/Fest is the UK’s premiere documentary film event. It is the place to see world and UK premieres of the best creative documentaries from the cinema, television and online arenas, and to hear from and meet filmmakers at Q&A sessions. Highlights of the film programme are honoured with an award programme including the Sheffield Special Jury, Innovation, Green, Youth Jury, Inspiration, Student Doc and Audience Awards.

See Sheffield Doc/Fest to submit your film.

From 17 January 2011, they’ll be taking over the screens for two weeks on weekday mornings with a creative intermission; a programme of film, art and animation, exhibiting the best of London’s emerging and established artistic talent.

They’re looking for silent short shorts – only twenty seconds in length – that can be either animation or live action film, for the Underground’s digital screens. Deadline: 3 December 2010 – upload your work to their Vimeo Submission Pool.

For more information check out the Smile for London website.

Submissions for the 65th Edinburgh International Film Festival are now open.

You can submit online here, by post (download the postal submission form on the site) or else via the submission platform Withoutabox.

The submission deadlines are: Earlybird Rate – Monday 13 December 2010, Regular Rate – Monday 31 January 2011, Late Rate – Monday 14 February 2011. All deadlines are postal deadlines, therefore your film has to have been posted to EIFF before or on the day of the deadline.

For more details and information on how to submit your film please visit the EIFF site. If you have any further queries email the Submissions Coordinator on submissions@edfilmfest.org.uk.

The festival takes place 15-26 June 2011.

To showcase the best experimental short films and video art exploring ‘movement on screen’ from around the world moves is now inviting filmmakers and artists to present screen-based works that investigate cultural and technological intersections. The best works shown at the festival will enter the race for the moves Film Award (cash prize £1000), moves Audience award (professional training worth up to £500) and the international moves Tour Award (to screen around the world).

Visit the moves website to register and submit your project.

Flatpack Festival

Lengthening nights and falling leaves mean it’s time to start cranking up for Flatpack – Birmingham’s excellent season of spring screenings and events. It’s time now for filmmakers to submit their work for the 2011 call for submissions. The team will be spending their christmas holidays sifting through hundreds of shorts for the programme, make sure they see yours by submitting before the 10 December deadline.

The London Short Film Festival will take place at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), Curzon Soho, Roxy Bar & Screen, Rio Dalston, Soho Film Lab, and other cinemas and venues across London, from 7-16 January 2011.

Renowned for daring cross-arts programming, the London Short Film Festival is a mecca for the UK’s young creative talent and a significant date in the UK film calender. The festival is governed by the content, quality and breadth of films submitted. The LSFF believe filmmakers should not be bound by rules, or dictated by genre, length or theme, and accepts drama, comedy, documentary, experimental, animation, lo/no-budget, music videos, or a combination of some or all of the above.

The London Short Film Festival is proud to be partnering with Rushes Soho Shorts for it’s submission process.

MeetMarket is Doc/Fest’s pitching initiative designed to match documentary, factual and cross-platform makers’ most innovative project ideas with UK and international buyers.

This year, they will select approximately 60 projects to pitch, all of whom will have one-to-one meeting with key funders and decision-makers match-made and scheduled. Projects can be at any stage from early development to post-production, and don’t need to have financing secured. Producers can be from anywhere in the world and they welcome international submissions.

If you are selected you are offered the opportunity to request meetings with, and pitch to, a high number of decision makers. This year MeetMarket has confirmed participation already from over 70 funders and decision-makers, to see the full list of who is coming look here.

The application process requires a synopsis, one-minute teaser, headline budget figures, and biographical information on participants. For full advice and tips on how to make your application the very best, see MeetMarket advice.

Submit your 2010 MeetMarket application online now here. For more info on MeetMarket, and to enquire about applying and whether your projects are suitable, contact Doc/Fest’s Marketplace Producer Charlie Phillips.

Power to the Pixel is delighted to announce its groundbreaking Pixel Market, which will take place on 13 and 14 October 2010 in London.

Applications are now open to find 20 of the world’s best cross-media projects.

Each project will be based on stories that can span any combination of film, TV, online, mobile, interactive, publishing, live events and gaming.

On 13 October, up to 10 of the teams will compete for the £6,000 ARTE PIXEL PITCH PRIZE at Power to the Pixel’s public event, The Pixel Pitch at BFI Southbank.

On 14 October, The Pixel Meetings will allow all 20 project teams to take part in one-to-one business meetings with potential investors and partners from across the tech, online, interactive, film, broadcast, arts, publishing and gaming industries.

Deadline for applications: 6 August. Further information can be found at Power to the Pixel’s website.

The AAP is a course for artists working with the moving image, who have completed a graduate or post-graduate course in the past five years. It aims to provide an intensive development focused on critical discourse, extending to the practical and infrastructural issues that present challenges for artists working with the medium.

The programme consists of a minimum of 12 monthly critical seminars taking place at LUX, exploring issues around artists’ moving image in the context of the artists’ own practice. There will also be an informal programme of relevant events including access to LUX events during the year. In addition, each artist will be paired with a mentor who they will meet with six times during the course.

For selection criteria and an application form, visit LUX. Deadline: Friday 24 September 2010 at 5pm. Shortlisted artists will be invited for an interview on the 18 or 19 October 2010.

In the spirit of APEngine, we’re looking for crafty provocations – antidotes to digital perfection.

We invite ideas from UK-based artists, animators and filmmakers who can craft an inventive, arresting and engagingly provocative work. We’re not looking for narrative, live action films and students aren’t eligible.

Each commission is £1,000, to include artist’s fee, all production costs and expenses.

To apply: simply email a proposal, no more than 200 words, noting the tools & processes that you would use, for a film that is around 1-3 minutes long, to machines@animateprojects.org. Please also include your contact details and 3 or 4 web links to examples of your moving image work.

The deadline for proposals is 27 August, 5pm. The finished films must be delivered in an uncompressed QuickTime file format by 20 October 2010. The films will premiere on APEngine.org and iTunes from November 2010.