📻🎷🎸🎹🎺 NEWS 🎻🎵🎤🎧
OCTOBER 2020
48th edition accepting submissions starting Oct 1st!
📻🎷🎸🎹🎺 HISTORY AND MORE 🎻🎵🎤🎧
2020 is our 5th year.
We created the fest when it was not a trend yet.
The only real monthly Music Video festival & competition with monthly screening.
The international pacemaker of Music Video festivals, we get copied over and over…
MONTHLY
A call, a selection, winners, and a screening every month.
Yes, we offer a real, monthly screening in California:
- each call opens the first day of the month
- each screening takes place the last day of the month
- we screen with a HD file
- you never wait more than 29 days to know you final status
ANNUAL
Submit any time to an annual category to be considered for the annual competition and screening.
2020 annual:
- submit before the last July Deadline to be considered for the 2020 annual Festival. We are still waiting on local regulations to stabilize to see if we can make an in-person screening or if we have to secure a digital event this year (September 2020).
- submissions to annual categories starting August 1st will be considered for the 2021 festival.
2019 was in Paris, France
2018 was in Studio City, Los Angeles, California
2017 was on Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California
2016 was in Paris, France
RULE-SETTER & TREND-MAKER
The IMVU is a rule-setter for Music Video festival.
We were the first festival to:
- create the best director, cinematographer, editor categories for our monthly and annual competitions
- launch a student category
- travel across the ocean for screenings, as an International event Festival
- promote Music Videos before the Music Video festivals became a market, before it became a niche, before it became a business.
Now, all music video festivals do the same.
We still are independent, transparent, and underground: our call really is open and made for rising bands, independent solo artists, creative musicians without a label, videomakers with a vision. Our selection for more than 4 years and 30 months shows our work, what we achieved, the bands and artists we supported and promoted.
Yes, we also selected famous artists, and artitsts signed with labels and record companies. Because we do not want to exclude people on the path of success: we want to support artits on this path. The only thing is: your Music Video has to be good. Artistic. Inspiring. Well executed. Visual. Creative… If you feel you are making things happen, then just give us what you got.
📻🎷🎸🎹🎺 FAMOUS ARTISTS 🎻🎵🎤🎧
Adèle, The Weeknd, Septicflesh, Macy Gray, Keith Urban, Indochine, Mystery Skull, The Band Perry, Vanessa Paradis, Jake Owen, Coolio, Auregan, Helly Luv... They all submitted to us.
We selected and screened Music Videos starring Joshua Jackson, Danny Trejo, Keira Knightley, Ethan Peck...
We have a Cult Classic section in which we screened David Bowie, Macklemore, Bob Dylan, The Animals, Prince, Noir Désir, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Cranberries, Daft Punk...
OUR MISSION
A competition festival exclusively focused on music videos, music, dance films, animated music videos, and other special stuff made of music and video.
We select Music Videos, dance movies, music documentaries and music related short films from all over the world and we screen them to give young artists both sides of the camera an opportunity to be noticed for their talents
You have music, you have images, but it's bizarre or borderline ? Submit to Best Special Stuff and we will consider you with an open mind.
Wanna make sure you fit? Send us an email or check our website to watch the previous winners.
We are looking for all sorts of music videos. We are named the International Music Video Underground.
International means we accept videos from everywhere.
Music means we love music.
Video means you can do anything mixing images with music.
Underground means we are looking for fun, for ideas, for engaged artists, not only big budget productions. It also means we are approachable.
WHY SUBMIT TO US
- high level competition: check our website to see for yourself
- budget friendly: the festival market is currently inflating its prices... We don't.
- you never wait more than 29 days to know your final status (winner, selection, not selected) -for the monthly category of course.
PAST SPEAKERS & JUDGES
Johnny Martin, director of Hangman starring Al Pacino, Karl Urban and Britanny Snow, director of Vengeance starring Nicolas Cage, producer of I Am Wrath starring John Travolta.
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Stephen Shea (producer), AR Bjorklund (International Music Video Database), Auregan (performer), Nicolas Wendl (director).
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Allie Lane (USA), Jay Sansone (USA), Jean-Paul Frenay (BELGIUM), Piet Baumgartner (SWITZERLAND), Eszter Angyalosy (HUNGARY), Video Rahim (USA) and Daniel Szőke (HUNGARY). More on our website.
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CULT CLASSIC SECTION
September 2019: Fat Boy Slim, Mumford & Sons.
May 2018 : Macklemore x Ryan Lewis (WINGS), The Cranberries (Zombie), Kylie Minogue (Can't Get You Out Of My Head)
May 2017 : Daft Punk (Around the World), Bob Dylan (Subterranean Homesick Blues), Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Sacrilege)
June 2016 : David Bowie (Space Odity), Noir Désir (L'Homme Pressé), Prince (Batdance) and The Animals (House of the Rising Sun).
AWARD certificates => distributed FREE for all categories.
A selection of winners get interviewed or reviewed by partner press outlets.
Facebook monthly & annual posts for winners, along the biggest names in the industry.