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Focus Forward Filmmaker Challenge Offering Largest Short Documentary Prize Ever: $100K to the Winner
Alright NoFilmSchoolers, it’s time to fire up your brains, set up your lights, check your mic levels, and turn on your cameras! GE and Cinelan are joining forces to bring you Focus Forward, a contest that challenges you to make a short non-fiction film on the theme of invention and innovation. There’s some serious money up for grabs, with $200k in cash prizes in all. Morgan Spurlock has more info: More »
Austin Film Festival Screenplay & Teleplay Competition Deadlines Approach
Have you already submitted your polished script to the Nicholl Fellowship? Did you miss that May 1 deadline and wish you had a few more days and another chance? Then you should consider submitting to the Austin Film Festival Screenplay & Teleplay Competition. Screenplay awards for Drama and Comedy category each include $5,000 plus reimbursement for round-trip airfare (up to $500) and hotel (up to $500) for the conference and festival. Teleplay awards for Sitcom Spec, One-Hour Spec, Sitcom Pilot and One-Hour Pilot each include $1,000, plus reimbursement for round-trip airfare (up to $500) and hotel (up to $500) for the conference and festival. More »
It’s the first day of April, and that can mean only one thing for those of us procrastinating on our writing — it’s Script Frenzy time. Script Frenzy is the annual script writing event that challenges writers to crank out 100 pages worth of script in 30 days. The prize? The sweet, sweet satisfaction of actually having knocked something out in a month. Here’s how it works: More »
Own a Panasonic AF100? Need a new monitor for your color suite? If you answered yes to both, Panasonic’s second annual “Shoot It. Share It” competition could be exactly what you’re looking for. Panasonic wants videos under 5 minutes, and the grand prize winner chosen by a panel of judges will take home a sweet 42″ Professional Plasma Display. In the interest of fairness, here’s an AF100 video that meets their criteria but hasn’t been uploaded to the website: More »
Amazon has launched Amazon Studios, a new online film studio with a crowdsourced development process. Amazon has $2.7 million committed to film projects through their first-look deal with Warner Bros.; they will be awarding $140k in prizes for submissions this December. However, rather than just running a standard contest, they have some very interesting ideas for how to “develop” these projects, and they’re more than a bit controversial. More »
Camera accessory manufacturer ikan has announced their 2010 HDSLR Revolution short film contest, which asks DSLR shooters to make a short incorporating the ikan brand name. To submit to the contest (and be eligible for the prizes, which are ikan gear and not cash), ikan asks that you “Simply create a film using your HDSLR camera that utilizes the ikan name, logo or an ikan product in a creative, positive manner. Your film must adhere to the simple, one-word theme of ‘revolution’.” If you’re interested, here’s how you enter the competition: More »
Openfilm is currently running a competition wherein filmmakers can submit a short, in hopes of winning $50k cash with a $200k financing deal to make a feature film version of said short. Contest runs until June 30, 2010; requirements are you submit a live-action or animation that is 40 minutes or less and is based on a feature film concept. $35 submission fee; be sure to read the legalese before you submit. Their hook:
Openfilm is poised to discover visionary talent. Do you have a short film that is based on a feature length concept? If so, Openfilm’s Get It Made Competition is for you.
Babelgum’s 3rd Online Film Festival is currently accepting submissions, with a deadline of March 28. Submissions are voted on by Babelgum’s online audience in each of the following categories: Animation (5 min max), Narrative (15 min max), Nonnarrative (5 min max), and Documentary (15 min max). As for prizes, from their site:
If you are the 1st Place winner of a Jury Award, you will receive a cash prize of US $3,000. If you are a runner-up, you will receive US $1,000. The winner of the Best Viral Short Award will receive US $2,000. If you are the winner of an Audience Award, you will receive a prize to be determined by Babel and announced on the Babelgum website.1 If you are the winner of the Stoli Emerging Filmmaker Award, your film will be screened along with other winners and honored at a reception during the Tribeca Film Festival.
If you’ve got a short that could use some exposure and/or prize money, this could be a good opportunity.
Link: Babelgum Online Film Festival
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