The brainchild of a native entrepreneur together with civic leaders, the Palm Beach International Film Festival was created as they believed that it would provide an interesting cultural venue for the entire community as well as huge fundraiser for motion pictures and grant opportunity for debut of independent productions.

Created in 1996, the Palm Beach International Film Festival revels in both the past and future of the movie industry with seven days of documentaries, short flicks, seminars, special assemblies, retrospectives, world premieres and features.

About three years ago, it has become competitive as it climbed the ranks of other huge cinematic carnivals such as Sundance Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival, Venice Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival. To date, they are enjoying an outstanding level of accomplishment.

Even if the Palm Beach International Film Festival is competing with other 1, 500 of its kind, it has established a unique niche as it has been among the top 25 cinematic carnivals in the world.

As compared to the others in the United States, it has concentrated in marking a difference in the lives of the young aspirants by assisting them become their dreams of motion picture creation a reality.

With the mission to encourage cultural awareness and ethnicity appreciation, Nantucket Film Festival carefully looks into the fine art of screenwriting in the dynamic world of motion pictures.

It is the venue where movie enthusiasts such as directors and producers converge together in an atmosphere of ingenuity and partnership.

The Nantucket Film Festival sifts diverse kinds of entries be it independently created, studio produced, foreign documentary and short flicks not just the American premieres but even those that come from foreign regions. They are individually selected with those who have eye for a great script.

In last year’s Nantucket Film Festival, two screenplays were read. One was “Spectacle” where the first part of the Mark Rosen Chronicles by Stacy Weiss and Dan Chariton was presented.

It was also in cooperation with Red Hour Films by actor Ben Stiller, who was also happened to be the director. The cast included Amy Sedaris, Macaulay Culkin, Lake Bell, David Krumholtz, Heather Burns, Sean Leonard and more.

The second referred to in the 2005 Nantucket Film Festival is “9/ 11 Kevin” by George Bradshaw and Stephen Garvey. It was done together with TriggerStreet.com, a company that was established by Kevin Spacey, a two- time Academy Award winning actor.

When the Warner-Amex Cable System based in Columbus opened the cable system QUBE, which offers a handful of satellite specialty channels designed for a specific audience. These channels include HBO and Pinwheel which would later be called “Nickelodeon”.

Intended really for children, Nickelodeon instead gained notoriety with the older audience when they released their first “nicktoon” in 1990 called the “RugRats”.

Though they still retain their younger audiences, Nickelodeon’s animated television series conjure dark humor, surrealism, unique commentary, and absurd humor which added adults to its viewers.

And what should turn out to be its downfall had become instead the film producer’s chief key for success. Prime examples of this Nicktoons include RugRats, Ren and Stimpy Show, Invader Zim, Dexter’s Lab and of course, the highly applauded Spongebob Squarepants.

Now, Nickelodeon hosts a television series competition where participants can submit their independent animated shorts for a grand prize of $10,000.

The television series premiered on Nickelodeon’s Nicktoons digital cable channel on October 24, 2004 now known as the Nicktoons Film Festival.

From the name, no one could miss the fact that Nickelodeon the event called “The Nicktoons Film Festival”. The Nicktoons Film Festival is a television series though, not an event like the Cannes.

Showcasing more than 350 films coming from different corners of the globe, the Newport Beach Film Festival offers an elaborate variety of animations, documentaries, features and shorts, documentaries that will all vie for both the Audience and Jury awards.

Still in its seventh year, the Newport Beach Film Festival may not be that veteran in its kind but it has been constantly treating its spectators to premieres in the World and United States as well as entries to the Oscars, selections for Sundance, series for Spotlight and carnival to the Children’s.

It has submissions to Africa, Europe and Asia as well as South and Central America. This is for the classic and contemporary filmmaking that will hopefully grant a unique blend of genre and culture.

Ever since the Newport Beach Film Festival begun, it has already presented a lot of highly- acclaimed movies such as Crash, Layer Cake, Dust to Glory, Dogtown and Z Boys, Joint Security Area and Castle in the Sky.

It also had anniversary showings of undeniably timeless favorites such as The French Connection, Sunset Boulevard, 50th Anniversary of Jim Henson Company and The Outsiders.

The WorldFest Houston Film Festival is one of the unique film festivals of the whole world. It is unique because the WorldFest Houston Film Festival is solely dedicated to the independent films and short films.

The WorldFest Houston Film Festival does not screen films that are produced by major studios and distributors. It aims to support the independent film making industry.

WorldFest Houston Film Festival has 8 main areas in the film competition which are: documentaries, business, television and cable production, experimental films, short subjects, television commercials, screen plays, feature and student films.

The WorldFest Houston Film Festival was established in August of 1961 as Cinema Arts, an International Film Society.

The WorldFest Houston Film Festival is the oldest independent film festival in the whole world and is the third competitive international film festival in North America. The WorldFest Houston Film Festival became a competitive international film festival in April of 1968.

The objective of the WorldFest Houston Film Festival is to distinguish and pay tribute to outstanding and creative independent films to validate excellent talents and to promote the cultural tourism in Houston.

With the hopes to promote the international awareness, knowledge and understanding of wildlife, environment, people and nature, the International Wildlife Media Center has come up with a film festival called the “International Wildlife Film Festival”.

The International Wildlife Media Center was founded in the late seventies in Missoula, Montana as the International Wildlife Film Festival. The said wildlife film festival was the first ever film festival in the world that features the wildlife of the planet.

The International Wildlife Film Festival is a yearly event wherein films and film making in/about wildlife are the main focus.

The International Wildlife Film Festival showcases public film screenings, by which the audiences get to chance to interact with the film makers, have conversations with the top conversationalists of the world, hands-on classes and workshops, retreats, explorations and other educational and entertaining activities, poster art contests and last but not the least, a gathering that is sponsored by the “National Geographic Television and Film”.

Professional film makers, producers, broadcasters and world renowned film makers from all over the world gather in the International Wildlife Film Festival. Emerging, amateur and student film makers are also included in the International Wildlife Film Festival.

Held each year for 10 days in June, the Los Angeles Film Festival presents nothing but the best not just the movies in the United States but also in the continental scene.

It has a recorded attendance of more than 60, 000 people where it screens over 175 short flicks, narrative features and music videos as well as documentaries.

On to its 12th year, the Los Angeles Film Festival has already been transformed to a world- class event where it brings together motion picture enthusiasts such as artists, cinematographers, directors, producers and writers.

There is also an active participation of the critiques and media as well as the public that will be the end matter to measure its massive success.

At the recently concluded Los Angeles Film Festival that was scheduled last June 22- July 2, 2006, the winners are the following: “Gretchen” directed and written by Steve Collins bagged the citation for Best Narrative Feature.

Their leading casts are Courtney Davis, John Merriman, Steve Root and Becky Ann Baker. Best Documentary Feature went to “Deliver Us From Evil” which is directed and written by Amy Berg.

Since the advent of digital technologies in cameras and motion picture recording, movie production costs was considerably lower.

To that effect when wealthy nations with masses that can easily afford digital equipment and have plenty of free time to boot, the production of independent films did also increase dramatically.

Though most are duds, always there’s a gem that could really shine even with meager budget rivaling those licensed pictures to shame.

Like the Blair Witch Project whose catalytic appearance really did revitalize the waning aggressiveness of indie (independent) films since the 1974 Texas Chainsaw Massacre by director Tobe Hopper?

And for the trivia: guess how much did the Texas Chainsaw Massacre cost to get out of production? It was produced on a budget of just $140,000, which is a sharp contrast of the grossed $30, 859, 000 at the U.S. Box Office.

Paradoxically, only a fraction of that amount made it to the hands of Tobe Hopper and the rest of the film’s crew. Blair Witch Project even has a smaller budget of $25,000, consisting only of documentaries and interviewed townspeople of Burkittsville.

One of the original homes of innovative and interesting motion pictures, the Edinburgh International Film Festival has been fully operational since 1947.

For almost half a century, it has showcased some of the industry’s most significant and interesting moments as well as playing host to the world’s expert movie makers.

All over the world, the Edinburgh International Film Festival is the longest running.

It has already reached it ripened years starting out with featuring only documentaries that was grounded in the dawn of the Second World War Overtly, it determination was really strong as it has already been a witness not only its community’s toughest circumstances but even in a global scale.

In the early periods of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, it debuted timeless classics such as “Louisiana Story” by Robert Flaherty, “Ugetsu Monogatari” by Kenji Mizoguchi and “Germany Year Zero” by Roberto Rosselini.

It was in the 1960’s that they introduced “retrospective.” It is a representative selection of the movies of a particular director, producer and writer as well as about anybody in the crew.

Because the advancement in of technology in the film making industry, horror films are rapidly becoming more and more popular among film enthusiasts. That is why some horror film lovers decided to create a horror film festival.

There are many horror film festivals these days. Horror film festivals are not only popular in the United States; horror film festivals are now more popular throughout Europe and Asia.

The foremost horror film festival of today is the “Eerie Horror Film Festival”. The Eerie Horror Film Festival was established and created in the Erie County, of Pennsylvania in October of the year 2004.

Since then, the Eerie Horror Film Festival has become one of the leading and most respected horror film festivals in the United States.

The first Eerie Horror Film Festival was held at the Roadhouse Theatre in Erie, Pennsylvania. The film festival has attracted thousands upon thousands of horror film enthusiasts and horror film makers in the Erie region.

The film festival showcased almost forty independent horror films that came from horror film makers from all over the world. On the same year, the said film festival was able to premiere the classic horror film “Saw” few weeks after it was showed on the theatres.