Call for Submissions

IPFF is on the path towards its second edition in 2021. Once again, we will celebrate short portrait cinema, independent filmmaking and art which explores, educates and transforms.

A portrait is an image heavy with meaning. Multilayered and multifaceted, it has a visual, psychological, material, emotional and spiritual dimension.

Unravelled in art, the painted, the literary, the photographic portrait is often perceived by the human mind as a still frozen in time. But, in fact, it has already undergone a transformation. From its true origin, through the consciousness that revives the brush, the quill and the lens, to the semblance that begins its life on the canvas and on the page. Imitation and repetition, but with endless potential for future metamorphoses.

The Purposeful Mayonnaise is a 2-in-1 literary & art platform-journal aiming to showcase writers and artists around the world.

Submissions for Issue 1 (online journal): 

We are looking for poetry, short stories, essays, visual art.

Theme: open. Please send us your best work. Submissions are free and open to artists and writers internationally.  

Deadline: May 31, 2021.

We will reply to all submissions during the second week of June 2021.  Issue 1 is scheduled for June 15.

Submissions are also open for our casual hanging out spot, The Bagel Hole.

The Bagel Hole is where we publish weekly features, artist interviews, poems, short prose.