International Media Festival Of Wales

18/11/2024

Thank you to everyone who submitted to the 2024 festival. We had a fantastic time watching and listening to them, and it was our honour to share them with the world. We are already planning our 2025 event. Watch this space for an ever evolving festival with updated categories and new opportunities to network.

14/11/2024

Congratulations to our 2024 award winners and to everyone selected to be screened this year. Thank you for a wonderful event, and we hope to see you all soon.

14/11/2024

There is some great work on show today at the festival from our officially selected submissions.

14/11/2024

Awards are ready.

14/11/2024

Our selected films will be screened throughout today, and podcasts will be playing in the cafe. For those that can't make it our Sparqfest page will include highlights of our entries.

11/11/2024

11/11/2024

Festival Schedule 14th November:

12:00 PM - 12:10 PM: Welcome

12:10 PM - 1:15 PM:
Documentary Short Film
Fine Art Photography
Drone
Music Video
Digital Art
Television / Webisode

1:15 PM - 1:45 PM: Break

1:45 PM - 4:30 PM:
Immersive/Interactive Film
Short Film

4:30 PM - 4:45 PM: Break

4:45 PM - 5:45 PM:
Rising Star - Young Media Artist

5:50 PM Awards

Screenings will be taking place at Cinema&Co in Swansea.

11/11/2024

The selections have been made and the winners will be announced on the 14th Nov. Watch some of the films at https://cbff.sparqfest.live/en/index.html

21/08/2024

Our submission categories are:

Immersive or Interactive Film
Documentary Short Film
Documentary Photography
Fine Art Photography
Podcast
Drone
Music Video
Animation
Digital Art
Social Media
Television or Webisode
Short Film
Rising Star- Young Media Artist

21/08/2024

The final deadline for entries to this year's festival is 10 days away. Submit your media work to one of our exciting categories by the 31st August.

Welcome to the International Media Festival of Wales (IMF of Wales). This is an exciting industry festival created by the team behind the highly successfu...

27/07/2024

!! Two New Categories for CBFF2025 !!

We are already looking forward to, and starting preparations for, ! And we have some exciting news about next year’s festival. We are adding 2 brand new categories to our line up; Original Score and Music Video.

The introduction of the Original Score category is to recognise and celebrate those who compose the music specifically for film, helping to create the atmosphere for the audience, establishing emotions and changing the tone of the story throughout a film.

The Music Video category welcomes entries of music video with the strongest or most original concept; with remarkable ex*****on and interpretation of a song.

Overseeing both these additional categories will be our newest judge to join the team, Grammy nominated singer songwriter John Parr. During his career John has worked with countless icons of the music industry and has also diversified into film-making, writing and producing a variety of short films. His drama documentary ‘Unconquered’ was nominated at the Carmarthen Bay Film Festival 2023. We feel privileged to be able to add John’s name to the judging panel for our latest additions.

If you would like to submit your work into either of these two categories (or any of our others) please do so via our FilmFreeway platform, you can find further details and the link via our website,

https://filmfreeway.com/CarmarthenBayFilmFestival

Carmarthen Bay Film Festival CBFF - Gŵyl Ffilm Bae Caerfyrddin is the Filmmaker’s Festive and so showcase your talent and vision here at

Carmarthen Bay Film Festival is only one of two festivals here in Wales to BAFTA British Short Film qualifying and one of only 26 in the whole of the UK. Also we are one of only six festivals in Wales to be a BAFTA Cymru and BAFTA Scotland qualifying festival. CBFF is also a IMDb qualifying festival.

We are very happy to be a member of Film Hub Wales and the British Arts Festivals Association.

Gŵyl Ffilm Bae Caerfyrddin Carmarthen Bay Film Festival

07/06/2024

Calling all filmmakers, podcaster, documentary photographers and everyone who is in anyway connected to content creative.

Check out the International Media Festival Of Wales 2024

and taking place this November, is a great opportunity to showcase your work here in

Come and be part of one of the best industry-leading festival in .

Submit via Film Freeway - https://filmfreeway.com/internationalmediafestivalofwales to enter across our 13 categories:

• Immersive or Interactive Film
• Documentary Short Film
• Documentary Photography
• Fine Art Photography
• Podcast
• Drone
• Music Video
• Animation
• Digital Art
• Social Media
• Television or Webisode
• Short Film
• Rising Star- Young Media Artist

International Media Festival Of Wales is an exciting media festival created by the team behind the highly successful BAFTA and IMDb qualifying Carmarthen Bay Film Festival CBFF - Gŵyl Ffilm Bae Caerfyrddin.

Our aim is to celebrate the very best of today's content creators, programme and media makers, media related and documentary photography and writing talent here in Wales and from around the world.


& Beyond

17/05/2024

Carmarthen Bay Film Festival CBFF - Gŵyl Ffilm Bae Caerfyrddin is holding a free industry day on Wednesday the 22nd. Please see the attached photo for details.

16/05/2024

I'm pleased to announce this year's recipient of The John Hefin Life Time Achievement Award. Angharad Mair

11/05/2024

26/04/2024

Join us on the 1st May for a showcase of our 1st, 2nd and 3rd year BA Adventure Filmmaking degree students.

Hidden Narratives

A showcase of untold stories told through Film and Imagery.

27/02/2024

Don't miss out on the chance to be part of Carmarthen Bay Film Festival CBFF - Gŵyl Ffilm Bae Caerfyrddin; Wales Premier Film Festival and IMDb, BAFTA and BAFTA Cymru qualifying festival. https://filmfreeway.com/CarmarthenBayFilmFestival

2 DAYS TO GO!!
SUBMISSIONS CLOSE IN 2 DAYS

Carmarthen Bay Film Festival, Wales Premier Film Festival, is championing independent film-making here in Wales and worldwide and so whatever your passion; film making, industry professional or lover of independent films, come and enjoy 4 wonderful days of films, workshops, industrial events, networking and the CBFF Awards at Carmarthen Bay Film Festival CBFF - Gŵyl Ffilm Bae Caerfyrddin.

Don't miss out on the chance to be part of this year's the BAFTA Short Film & IMDb Qualifying Gŵyl Ffilm Bae Caerfyrddin Carmarthen Bay Film Festival by submit you film before 29th February at:

https://filmfreeway.com/CarmarthenBayFilmFestival

Carmarthen Bay Film Festival is very happy to be a member of Film Hub Wales and the British Arts Festivals Association.