About Festival
NFR is a four-month-long festival featuring seven streams of activities, culminating in a three-day summit with cultural and art events. Organised by NEO Film School, it celebrates and brings together filmmakers, producers and society to be part of the vibrant creative economy.
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An International Short Film, Documentary and Animation Film Festival.
A Mega Film Festival for regional, national, & international non-feature filmmakers, technicians & artists showcasing short films, documentaries, & animations
NFR 7 Streams
NFR Global Academy Awards
Celebrate excellence in filmmaking with the NFR Global Academy Awards. This stream honours outstanding talents in filmmaking, fostering emerging talents and setting high-quality benchmarks in the industry. Let us discern the best in short films, documentaries and animation films of global cinema.
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NFR Global Film Pitch Festival
The NFR Global Film Pitch Festival is where abstract ideas start their journey to become concrete productions. It grooms ideas into presentable scripts and presents them to potential collaborators for production. It is an opportunity to pitch your film professionally.
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NFR Filmincube
We believe filmmaking is one of the best businesses in the world, provided it carries TRANSPARENCY in transactions and the sharing of the know-how. This gap is now getting bridged by the NFR Incube, an educational and grooming platform for aspiring film producers.
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NFR Global Film Market
NFR Global Film Market is a platform for film festival curators and organisers to discover new films and talents. It opens access to the International film festival circuits and nurtures international coproduction possibilities for filmmakers.
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NFR Global Film Conclaves
NFR Global Film Conclaves are about building awareness of the world's new order, the CREATIVE ECONOMY, which is reshaping the GDP of every country. This NFR stream offers workshops, conferences, and seminars on technology, aesthetics, management, and business. Its focus is "Film as a Profession and Business".
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NFR Benchmark Film Screenings
NFR Benchmark Film Screenings is a platform for everybody to watch the best short films, documentaries and animation from world cinema. It also includes shortlisted films from the NFR Global Academy Awards entries.
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NFR Extempore Film Making Contest - NEO48
The NEO-48 Extempore Filmmaking Contest is a fast-paced 48-hour filmmaking contest. In NEO-48, creativity meets productivity, where the contestants have to script, shoot, edit and submit within 48 hours on a given topic.
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Neo Film Republic Global Summit
The seven streams of NFR flow to conclude at this three-day summit for industry professionals, filmmakers, enthusiasts, film buffs, entrepreneurs and business people.
The NFR Summit will host the award ceremonies of the NFR Global Academy Awards and the NEO-48 Extempore Filmmaking Contest, along with the Film Pitch Festival, Investors Incubator, Film Market, Conclaves, Screenings, and various cultural events.
