The great thing about making a poetry film is that you can enter it into as many poetry film competitions and festivals as you like. Here are details of the O’Bhéal poetry film competition:
Ó Bhéal
Location: Cork, Ireland
Annual since 2010
The IndieCork festival of independent film and music.
2017 is Ó Bhéal’s eighth year screening International poetry-films, and fifth year featuring an International competition. Up to thirty films will be shortlisted and screened during the festival in October. One winner will receive the Indie Cork / Ó Bhéal Poetry-Film prize.
Judges: filmmaker Shaun O’Connor & poet-artist Lani O’Hanlon
Deadline for submissions is the 31st of August 2017.
And here’s a list of other new and ongoing festivals:
Art Visuals & Poetry Film Festival
Location: Vienna, Austria
Originally annual, now biannual, since 2009
Backup_festival: Weimar Poetry Film Award
Location: Weimar, Germany
Annual since 2016
Ciné Poème – Festival de courts métrages (Facebook page)
Location: Bezons, France
Annual since 2011
CYCLOP International Videopoetry Festival (Facebook page)
Location: Kiev, Ukraine
Annual since 2011
Festival de la poésie de Montréal: Rendez-vous vidéo-poésie
Location: Montreal
Annual since 2014
Filmpoem Festival
Location: various, but mostly Scotland
Annual since 2013
International Poetry Film Festival
Location: Athens, Greece
Annual since 2012
Juteback Poetry Film Festival
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
Revived in 2017; 2012 and 2013 as The Body Electric Poetry Film Festival
Liberated Words Poetry Film Festival
Location: Bristol, UK
Since 2012
Oslo poesifilm
Location: Oslo, Norway
Annual since 2009
PoetryFilm
Location: various, UK
Multiple screening events each year since 2002
Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival
Location: Worcester, Massachusetts
Annual since 2014
Sadho Poetry Film Fest
Location: New Delhi (and touring other Indian cities)
Biannual since 2007
SINESTESIA
Location: Barcelona
Annual since 2015
VideoBardo International Festival of Videopoetry
Location: Buenos Aires
Biannual since 1996 (skipped 2010)
VISIBLE VERSE Videopoetry Festival
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Annual since 1999 (hiatus in 2016)
ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival (Facebook page)
Location: Münster (Berlin through 2014)
Biannual since 2002
Poem as Totem 