The largest and most widely acclaimed film festival in the world, Cannes Film Festival now welcomes over 30,000 artists each year from the full spectrum of the industry.

The most recognized site dedicated to showcasing film festivals around the world. Contains festival news, reviews, gossip and all things festival related. The site is geared to both professionals and film fans, and all content is bilingual in English and French. They began in 1995 producing a CD-Rom on the Cannes Film Festival, and subsequently creating Cannes' first official website.

Annual film festival held in and around Park City, Utah each January. One of the premier U.S. venues for emerging American and international independent film.

Annual film festival in Utah, founded in 1995 and held each year exactly at the same time as the Sundance Film Festival. They compete with Sundance in an effort to provide what their supporters consider a truer representation of independent film-making, and champions emerging directors operating with very limited budgets. Since it's founding, other affiliated Slamdance film festivals have sprung up internationally, in countries like China and Poland.

WorldFest was founded in August, 1961 as Cinema Arts, an International Film Society. It evolved into a competitive International Film Festival in April, 1968, showcasing quality independent film. The mission/vision statement of WorldFest is to recognize and honor outstanding creative excellence in film & video, to validate brilliant abilities and to promote cultural tourism for Houston, to develop film production in the region and to add to the rich cultural fabric of the city of Houston. All members of the WorldFest staff are filmmakers.

The Toronto International Film Festival Group (TIFFG) is a charitable, not-for-profit, cultural organization which tries to change the world through the support of the filmic arts. The film festival is world reknowned and currently reaches audiences of 900,000 per year.

A five day retreat and international film market. As of 2007 the festival will be held in Los Angeles California, though it originated in Mexico in 1997 and then moved to Florida in 2002. Their mission is to strengthen the Black filmmaking community through resource sharing, education, collaboration and career development.

An exciting, bi-annual film festival founded in 1988 and held in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A unique festival within South Asia, ISFF is hosted by Bangladesh Short Film Forum, an organization of independent film-makers and cine-activists, and one of the only organizations of it's kind in the country.

Award winning annual indie film event in DC, showcasing features, shorts, animation and documentaries from the United States and abroad. Also features informative seminars, access to a unique film market and participate in a one of a kind festival trade show. The trade show is a tremendous networking opportunity which allows leading production companies to interact with audiences and budding filmmakers while simultaneously showcasing their services and the latest technological advances in the industry.

Annual short film festival touring event which takes place in LA, Singapore and Myanmar, and has established itself as a unique, Japanese-born film festival showcased worldwide. The winner of Short Shorts' grand prix is eligible to receive an Academy Award nomination.

Hosted by the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the festival is the longest-running showcase for international documentaries in the United States. TMMFV is known for its extraordinary and diverse selections, which often take on controversial and challenging subjects representing a wide range of perspectives. There are also high quality forums for discussion between the filmmakers and the community.

A "discovery festival of films and technology forums," named the Top 10 festival in the world by the Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide. Sponsored by Cinequest, a 501(c)3 film institute dedicated to "empowering the Maverick" filmmakers through their festival and through distribution. *See also Cinequest Online under Distribution.

Annual documentary film festival in Durham since 1998. Founded by Nancy Buirski. Called the premier documentary film festival in the United States by both The New York Times and indieWIRE.

Unique annual student-run film festival founded in 2004 and featuring exceptional works by regional, national and international high school filmmakers.

Organized and based in Montreal, Cinema Politica is a network of several local film exhibition series across Canada, Europe and the USA, featuring exclusively works which engage audiences on important, provocative, socio-political, cultural, environmental and economic issues. Admission is always by donation and everyone is welcome to participate.

The CICFF is North America's largest and most celebrated film festival devoted to films for and by kids, and is the only Academy®-qualifying children's film festival in the world. Winners in the short film category can go on to compete for the Oscars®. This year, "Cannes for Kids" features over 200 of the best films and videos for kids from 40 countries. The Festival welcomes over 26,000 Chicago area children, adults, and educators to hundreds of screenings. More than 100 filmmakers, media professionals & celebrities attend the Festival to lead interactive workshops with kids.

Unique, non-competitive, annual film festival in Palo Alto and San Francisco featuring documentary films dealing with human rights, environmental survival, women’s issues, protection of refugees, homelessness, racism, disease control, universal education, war and peace. Founded to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Human Rights.

Extraordinary annual short film festival event which takes place simultaneously in cities across the world. During the ten-day event audiences in what is nearing 100 cities around the world view the same selection of films. Each audience member is given a ballot and votes for the one film they feel should win the festival. The winner is then announced at Union Square Park in New York City and posted on the festivals Web site.

Quarterly competitive festival held as both a live event in NYC and online. Viewers both online and live vote for The Director's Cut® Viewer's Choice Award and then the 10 finalists compete for The Director's Cut Award. Features documentaries, shorts, animation and even trailers by professionals, amateurs, and students.

Annual event held in London and NYC, featuring distinguished fiction, documentary and animated films and videos with a distinctive human rights theme. Subsequently, highlights from the festival become part of an annual Traveling Film Festival which is shown in select cities around the United States and Canada