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New Awards for Best Film & Best Animated Film for the 2017 Edinburgh Short Film Festival. In association with Puppet Animation Scotland & The Matthew Martino Benevolent Fund, the Edinburgh Short Film Festival is offering cash prizes and industry mentoring to the film-maker who wins the Best...

Contest Details Louisiana is a state so rich in cultural heritage, so replete with distinguished circumstance, we’re able to use #OnlyLouisiana as our official tourism hashtag. Sure, we claim the tallest capitol building (450 feet!) and the longest continuous bridge over water (Lake...

Searching for a way to jump-start your screenwriting career? I invite you to enter The 2017 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards contest! In just a few short months, our Judges will select this year's winners. The winning writers will receive cash and prizes totaling over $50,000—...

Contest Details Almost 50 years ago, the iconic tourism slogan “Virginia is for Lovers” was born. An attempt at several versions was made, each pointing to different facets of the Commonwealth: lovers of history, beaches, and mountains. There’s so much to love about Virginia, it simply became...

We’re delighted to reveal that we have finalised the details on a new festival partnership with the USA’s largest dedicated short film festival on the US East coast, DC Shorts based in Washington! The partnership begins during our 2018 editions and will see the ESFF prepare a programme of some...

20th UNAFF CALL FOR ENTRIES http://www.unaff.org/2017/submission.html SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN for the 20th UNAFF, which runs from October 19-29, 2017 in Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, San Francisco and Stanford University. UNAFF celebrates the power of international documentary films dealing with...

20th UNAFF CALL FOR ENTRIES http://www.unaff.org/2017/ SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN for the 20th UNAFF (United Nations Association Film Festival), which runs from October 19-29, 2017 in Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, San Francisco and Stanford University. UNAFF celebrates the power of international...

Contest Details In this industry, women make up only 19 percent of directors, producers, and writers. For minority women, the percentage is even less. The imbalance is deeply rooted, and though it has been acknowledged and studied for years, there has been virtually no improvement. If the...

Every small business has a story. This contest will reward the best telling of those stories. Small businesses are forged by grit, determination, and passion made with tears, laughter and sometimes sacrifice. The Small Business Stories contest brings those stories to life, highlighting small...

Partner with Home2 Suites by Hilton, give a new take on something ordinary and you could win big. The Challenge: Home2 Suites by Hilton offers a modern, user-friendly hotel option that is unlike anything else in the category. From an updated, colorful, contemporary design to amenities focused...

Hey students! I am the President of Spastic Records. I live in Sweden. You probably don't. I think we're equal anyway! It said educational resource up top so I promise, this is an educational post because I am going to educate you on how little I know about what you do. That's why I need you...

Screening the best in International contemporary short cinema at venues across the Scottish capital in Autumn. The best films will be included in our programmes for other festivals across the UK & Internationally. This year, we're excited to be programming films for our 2017 partners...

Hi there, I'm Tom from Indie-Lincs! After a very successful inaugural event in March, Indie-Lincs has returned for a bigger and better second year. We're looking for inventive and challenging short and feature films for our 2017 programme. The festival is open to fiction, documentary and...

Any of you in Australia, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand or Tanzania? If you are, join The 5-Min Video Challenge now! Simply submit an original video, not more than 5 minutes, with the theme of 'Connecting Lives'. The video can be in any form (i.e. documentary, animation, live...

Submissions are now open for Parallax Film Festival 2016, a BFI-funded independent film festival taking place at The Collection Lincoln & Usher Gallery on the 12th and 13th of November 2016! All of the films and exhibitions at this year's festival relate to the concept of youth - if your film...

Works for Progress Development Initiative Accepting Scripts, Evolving Works, and Produced Pilots/Series for Consideration; Submission Period Open through September 8th NYTVF is partnering with Academy Award-winning Participant Media on Works for Progress, a unique development program designed...

We’re excited to announce the launch of the call for entries for the twelfth annual Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival (SFFSFF), a partnership between EMP Museum and the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF)! We’d love for you to submit! From July 1st through September 30th...

Content creators: submit your video ASAP! mySPOTLIGHT.TV is offering the only online video competition where you can start earning money for your video right from the FIRST VIEW! Build an audience faster than any other video platform! The submission period is only open for a limited time...

StudentFilmmakers.com (www.studentfilmmakersforums.com) has a special news category for film, video, and photo contests, as well as screenwriting contests, and more! We update this news section daily. Read articles and share your comments...

Submissions are now open for the 36th Annual Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival, April 20 - May 6, 2017. Films made after January 1, 2016 are now being accepted for consideration. Presented by the Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul, MSPIFF is one of North America’s largest and...