Festivals: call for entries

Alternativa invites: Impact Distribution Lab

 

Deadline: 30.09.2025

Please submit your projects!

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Almaty Series Festival and Series Mania Open New Horizons

 

Almaty, Kazakhstan / September 22-26, 2025

Please submit your projects!

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The upcoming Alternativa Film Festival will take place in Colombia in 2026, with Latin America as the focus region 

 

Guadalajara, Mexico, June 10, 2025 – Alternativa has announced that the 3rd edition of the Alternativa Film Festival will take place in Colombia in Q2 2026, with an expanded prize fund of120,000 USD (an increase of 20,000 USD from the previous edition) and a new award categoryfor a feature film from the focus region, bringing the total number of awards to seven. The opencall for submissions runs from June 10 to October 10, 2025. Feature-length films of all genresare accepted from Latin America and Asia, while the short film categories are reservedexclusively for Latin America.

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Azamat Sharshenov (Arykov)

Contacts: The film studio by Ernest Abdyjaparov «SEA»
Work address: 1, Dinara Asanova Street, Bishkek, 720030, Kyrgyzstan
Phones:
work: +996 (312) 34 46 73
mob.: +996 (555) 16 01 93, +996 (700) 16 01 93
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Date of birth: 18.03.1985
Education: Art school under National Art Academy of Kyrgyz Republic, department - commercial artist, theater and cinema artist.
Finished full directors course of Ernest Abdyjaparov with honours degree
 
Filmography
 
2013 Ayat-3
2011 Ayat-2
 

Short films:

 

2010 «Bilerik»
2010 «Ideal girl»

    Diploma "Prize of Hope"

 

 

Documentary films:
 
 
2017 Wonderful Life, doc, info here
 
2011 «Issyk-Kul Beshbarmak: film about film»