The Strange Beauty Film Festival is an utterly unique event held annually in Durham, North Carolina at the Manbites Dog Theater.

The festival is dedicated to showing short films from around the world that have only one qualifying element: That they exhibit a singular quality of “strange beauty.” However you want to interpret what that means and if your short film is applicable, they are currently accepting submissions at just 10 bucks a pop. If you’re interested, please either click their sponsor ad to the right or, well, just click here.

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The mighty Chicago Underground Film Festival is also currently open for entries for their astounding 21st annual edition next year on April 2-6. CUFF screens feature films and shorts, and every year constantly redefines what “underground film” even means. To submit, also click their sponsor ad to the right, or click here.

The Haverhill Experimental Film Festival will be celebrating its second annual edition in 2014 on May 30 to June 1. The fest is also now open for submissions and they are looking for short form experimental, avant-garde and underground film and video works. Visit their website for more info.

Everything Is Forever is the new documentary by director Vic Zimet and co-producer Stephanie Silber. The film is an inspiring profile of Croatian musician Nenad Bach and the filmmakers are raising funds through an innovative new crowdfunding program called Fundrazr in which donors are rewarded with gift cards for popular businesses like Starbucks, Subway, Best Buy.

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