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Video, Film and
Animation Festivals -
for pros, those who want to be pros and for those who just
want to have some fun
Where
to get your videos seen and distributed; some are online,
some are not.
Some contests offer
prizes and money; most are free to enter but most aren't.
Filmaka is excited to offer its members the chance to make
the leap from online to on TV. FX Networks is offering a
search for comic talent through
Filmaka.com.
"We have just launched our
FX NETWORKS COMPETITION.
Make a 3-minute comedy pilot and write a 2-page pitch about
what the rest of the season would be like. Then upload it to
us. 10 Filmakas will get $1000 and one will be given up to
$40,000 by FX to do a 15-20 minute version of their idea. If
FX likes it, they may pick up your show to add to their fall
season!
Do you want to become famous or make
some money making online video? Check out
Online Video Contests. This
is a great new site, with a wonderful concept and amazingly
useful. Instead of you trying to search through the net to
find and stay ahead of all the hundreds of video contests
that you can enter, Justin Johnson and his
Online Video Contests
web site does it all
for you!
Red Giant Software Sponsors My
Toolfarm Contest - User-submitted videos to be shown at
NAB 2008
San Francisco, CA, February 14, 2008 – Red Giant
Software is sponsoring a contest to let users submit
their best work using Red Giant Software’s Magic Bullet
Looks or Trapcode Form tools and win a chance to show
their work at NAB 2008. Users will upload their videos
to the My Toolfarm web site where other users can vote
on the submission from now until March 24th. The winner
will get to fly to NAB and present their work at the Red
Giant Software booth at NAB 2008. Winners will be
determined by user scores on the My Toolfarm web site
and by a panel of Red Giant Software judges.
more
SouthCoast One Minute Movie Awards.
Get everyone moving on their entries because the
deadline still stands as February 15th.
This allows us to post the qualified submissions
online for judging in a special showcase on
southcoasttoday.com prior to our Awards Night
event on Thursday, February 28th at
The Standard Times Atrium in New Bedford,
Finalists and guests will be invited to attend a
red carpet gala where the nominations will be
screened for a final time and awards bestowed.
Best Film receives an Apple iTouch. People’s
Choice is awarded an Apple iNano. But the BIG news is
that our Young Filmmakers Award sponsor has been
made official, and the winner of this one minute
movie category will receive a tuition
scholarship for a ONE WEEK film camp through the
organization Kid Filmmakers. This is
one of the best kids organizations in movie
making. One of their key differences is that
campers receive a week of professional training
with a full staff of movie professionals – appx
8 to 10 different instructors - who are
currently active in their respective
departments. From screenwriters right down
through makeup artists. No other film camp in
the region offers this depth of staff. Our
Young Filmmakers Award winner may select to
attend either the 2008 summer film camp
to held in Harwich, MA on the Cape –OR- the 2008
summer film camp in Newport, RI. Kid Filmmakers
has also allowed us to offer the award
recipient the opportunity to defer this
scholarship to the summer of 2009 if it would
better serve the interests of the student and
their family! Yikes! How great can it get?
Remember –
Anyone of any age is eligible for the Best Film
and People’s Choice Award. YOUNG filmmakers
under the age of 18 have the possibility of
entering and winning in ALL 3 categories! It’s
a g-rated competition across the board where we
encourage all styles and genres of films –
Documentary, Animation, Comedy, Drama…come what
may! Just check out the rules & regs online and
encourage your filmmakers to get active.
The Video
Philanthropy Contest starts on Valentines Day 2008
http://www.thinkgiving.com.
The idea is to combine both video creativity and
charity and allow video creators to promote social
causes they believe in with creative, entertaining
and informative videos. Their first video contest
theme is to create a Video Thank You to a friend,
family member or charity group. details:
http://www.imagine.thinkgiving.com/pages/contest_details.html
thinkgiving.com is a new site that has just launched
and is devoted to combining creativity in video,
art, photo and design with charitable and worthwhile
causes.
During
January, 2008, VideoJug (www.videojug.com),
the online video encyclopaedia of life, is running a
month-long competition giving video uploaders the chance to
win $2000. To enter, uploaders simply submit their videos to
VideoJug and the prizes will go to the 3 films with the
highest number of views during January 2008.
more
It's
that time of year again! Time to break out the holiday cheer
and delight us all with a Christmas movie! This is the FIVE
year anniversary of our Xmas fight, so let's make it a fun
one. As usual use the title, make a holiday movie about a
miracle, on the street of your choosing, and keep it under 5
minutes.
Help Sony
Music create a new music video for Tori Amos - Tori Amos
Bouncing Off Clouds Green Screen Video Contest
The winning video will premiere on
Tori's official website
www.toriamos.com
and the Grand Prize winner plus a friend will be flown to a
show on Tori's US tour! Four First Prize winners will each
win an 8GB iPod Touch. Five Runner Up winners will each win
an autographed Tori Amos American Doll Posse CD.
Here's how it will work: Tori Amos is
supplying you with her own performance footage to "Bouncing
Off Clouds," from her latest album American Doll Posse.
more
California
Department of Public Health just announced its “Be a
Reel Hero” video contest, asking Californians to
create its next great anti-tobacco TV commercial. Do
you remember the ads that showed the woman with the
tracheotomy who continued to smoke through her neck, the
impotent cowboy or the undo tobacco spots? Those were a
part of the state’s award-winning media campaign and now
it’s your turn to make the next great anti-smoking
commercial!
The Be A
Reel Hero contest invites all creative Californians to
produce a compelling 30 second video that communicates
California’s anti-smoking message. The grand prize
winner’s submission will air on TV in California in the
Spring of 2008.
The turning point of the 20th Century wasn't on television.
It was television. - Win the chance to be Playbill Video¢s
correspondent to the opening night of The Farnsworth
Invention and the chance to interview the cast and creative
team of this great show!
To enter: Submit a 30 second video of the question you most
want to ask the talented cast and creative team of The
Farnsworth Invention.
Written by Aaron Sorkin. Directed by Des McAnuff. Starring
Hank Azaria & Jimmi Simpson. Visit FarnsworthOnBroadway.com
for more on the production.
Contest prize includes: 2 tickets to opening night of The
Farnsworth Invention. An interview with the cast and
creative team of The Farnsworth Invention, to air on
Playbill.com. Official contest rules:
http://www.playbill.com/contestrules.asp
Want to make
some money making a funny and scary video for Halloween?
Checkout
this contest at LuluTV. Give us a monster blog, funny,
scary, whatever! You have till November 10. Make a $100
Is this the goofiest
video contest ever? As you may have noticed, everyone -
businesses of all types and sizes - no matter what they make
or actually do, are trying to cash in on the web 2.0 -
Internet video 2.0 craze by sponsoring some sort of online
video contest where users create and submit videos.. This
one though takes the cake - make a video of you and oldest
appliance.
The craziest
video entry will receive Three Brand New GE Appliances plus
$1,000 in Cash!
More
World's Dirtiest Film Contest - hosted by Axe and David
Spade. Are you dirty enough? Axe & David Spade need your
help creating The World's Dirtiest Film. Show us how you get
dirty, and how you get clean. All of our filthy favorites
will make it into the final cut. This is pretty cool
especially the director section where you get to clean off a
trio of dirty participants - Plus you can edit together your
own dirty film....
It is the Great
American SmokeOut Video Contest at YouTube. Make a video
and win.
More
4th
Annual International Film
Festival Summit
December 2-4, 2007
Loews
Lake Las Vegas Resort
Nominations
can be made online at the
IFFS website (www.filmfestivalsummit.com)
and must be completed in
their entirety. The
deadline for entries is
October 30th 2007.
Make Money
by Making a BS video! BS Industries (www.BSFlag.com),
the maker of the Official BS Flag™ and Official Bullshit
Flag™, has announced that they are now accepting submissions
for their first Official BS Flag-YouTube contest. The
competition encourages all aspiring producers, directors and
actors to create and submit an original short film using
either the Official BS Flag, or the Official Bullshit Flag,
and offers a Grand Prize of $5,000, a Second Prize of
$1,000, and a third prize of $500.
more
Introducing the 2nd Annual InternationalStudent.com
Travel Video Contest!
The
Webby Film and Video Awards, the leading
international honors for original film and video
premiering on the Internet, today kicked-off its call
for entries with 19 new categories including Music,
Sports, Technology, and Travel, as well new technical
categories recognizing excellence in editing, sound
design, writing, and use of animation.
To
enter work in The Webby Film & Video Awards, visit
www.webbyawards.com.
The early entry deadline is October 26, 2007.
According to David-Michel Davies,
Executive Director of The Webby Awards, the expansion
into new categories reflects the increasing influence
and popularity of online video. Last week, ComScore
revealed that nearly 75 percent of U.S. Internet users
watched an average of three hours of online video in
July 2007.
more
*
Help end
cyberbullying by creating a Public Service Announcement on
the issue.
Sony
Creative Software, the National Crime Prevention Council and
the Ad Council are seeking entries from independent
producers and academic institutions (K - 12). The top
submissions may be eligible for national broadcast, and
their producer or sponsoring academic institution will
receive a complete multimedia editing suite for their
facility or school valued at over $18,000.more
Ziddio -
TEN DAY
CONTEST TAKE 2 -
Take that big TV show idea off the back
burner and slap your last name on the back
of a studio chair! Ends October 4, 2007
Shoot a scene, trailer
or promo that best presents your TV show idea. You just may
see your show become a reality.
All submissions will be
judged by Ziddio's panel and one winner will get a shot at
making it big as a real Hollywood TV producer. You'll be
flown out to Tinseltown for 10-days and showered with
$50,000 in production money to make your big idea a reality.
You'll bump elbows with Hollywood experts and executives
from Endemol USA who will help you shoot a real pilot
presentation in 10 days. Plus, YOU could also be the star of
your own six-episode reality series, Ten Day Take 2, which
will chronicle all of your production adventures.
Become
part of the official Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge — the
only place where fan movies have access to George Lucas and
Spike TV. Not only did Chad Vader take home the coveted
George Lucas Selects Award at the Star Wars Fan Movie
Challenge — it also got
some air time on Spike TV.
The Star Wars
Fan Movie Challenge is ongoing, so you can submit a fan
movie at any time.
There's a
special theme for the Challenge's next phase. They are
looking for films about the Women of Star Wars.
From Princess Leia to Pink Five, the
Star Wars Universe is packed with kick-butt women. Make a
fan movie featuring your favorite Star Wars heroine — or
create your own.
Get More Info
Tewksbury, Mass., 08/07/2007 -
Pinnacle Systems, Inc., the consumer division of Avid
Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID), today announced that the
website for its online Pinnacle Studio™ 11 "Share Your Video
Experience" contest is live and submissions are being posted
as they are received, in accordance with contest rules.
Visitors to
http://contest.pinnaclesys.com/Share.aspx
can submit their entries, read about Pinnacle Studio 11 user
experiences and vote for their favorite videos.
more
Delta and Gen
Art are gearing up for the second annual "Delta's
Fly-In Movies" national short film competition.
The
contest is open to all North American filmmakers,
and submissions will be accepted through September
12. Five finalists will be selected, and the winner
will be announced at the 2008 Sundance Film
Festival. This is a unique opportunity for artists
to showcase their short films, and win cash, travel,
and trip to the Sundance Film Festival. What is
unique to this year's competition is that ALL five
finalists will get to travel to Sundance.
more
DXG
USA
http://www.dxgusa.com,
one of the fastest growing digital camera manufacturers,
announced today the DXG “Short Shorts” YouTube OnlineVideoContest. “Short Shorts” Contest
participants will produce and submit a maximum 1 minute
video to DXG using any DXG camera or camcorder. Entries
will be judged by a combination of originality, the number
of YouTube views, ratings received, and number of favorites
selected. Categories include “Funniest Video,”
including sketch, stand-up or ‘blooper’ video and “Best
Music Video,” either with lip-synched music or original
music.
more
Nestle "Shake
It Up" Video Contest
Submit a video that shows how
you, in your own special way, shake your NESTLÉ® NESQUIK®
and you could WIN! Just grab a bottle, or two or three, and
a camera. One Grand Prize Winner wins $10,000 (and if that
wasn't enough), their video will be shown in a cinema near
their hometown AND their video will be shown on ABC
SuperSign video billboard in Times Square, New York. Nine
other finalists will win a NESQUIK goodie bag with free
product coupons worth $100.
more info
Enter
the "Use Xerpi" video contest and win $5000! Make a
video that inspires others to use Xerpi.com and you
can win $5000. There are also prizes for 2nd place
(2-$100 prizes) and 3rd place (3-$50 prizes).
more
Now you can
attend a virtual Cannes. Redlightcenter.com, the second
most populated virtual world, has announced the first-ever
virtual International Film Festival. Redlightcenter is
inviting independent filmmakers to submit their movies for
this three-day event (August 9-11, 2007), which will present
original short films on any subject and interest, from
documentaries to comedies, drama, and horror.
more
SLOMO VIDEO is 100 one minute slow motion
videos by 85 filmmakers and video artists
from around the world. The video festival
swerves into cinemas around the world,
transubstantiates time into taffy, and turns
the usual expectations of a video show on
its side and inside out. This unique
compilation of cinematic slowness pulls the
audience through a molasses-tinged warp of
catastrophic visual and audio beauty!
Bridgestone
Firestone North American Tire, LLC is turning to teens for
solutions to help make our roads safer for everyone by
launching the Safety Scholars Video Contest. The contest
will award three $5,000 college scholarships for the most
compelling and effective teen-created videos that drive home
lifesaving messages on auto and tire safety.
more
How Green Are You? Enter To Be The
Greenest Family In America!
Win a $1,000 American Express Gift
Card, a $1,000 gift certificate to Whole Foods, an
autographed copy of An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore and a
DVD. For complete details please read the
Official Rules.
Video Contest ends September 1, 2007.
Is your dog a star? Is he or she the
cutest, sweetest, finniest and most beautiful canine in the
neighborhood? Do you got your sweetheart doggie on video?
You might want to enter the
Top Dog video contest at Worldwide Fido.
Create and send in a video of your dog and you could be a
winner! Or if you just like watching dogs on line, just
visit and check out all the videos that are already posted.
Bow-bow
All you need
is a camcorder, some Heinz ketchup and maybe one of those
chairs with your name on it. Oh, and a great idea for a TV
commercial. It's the Heinz Top This TV Challenge. You
could win $57,000—and a place in the 130-year history of a
bona fide cultural icon.
YOUTUBE POTATO VIDEO CONTEST - Three Grand Prizes of
$1,000 CASH Will Be Awarded
Dawn Wells, Mary Ann of Gilligan’s Island shares
her potato Video
To
enter, contestants must be willing to have two minutes of
fun with an Idaho Potato (on camera-of course) and to share
their entry with the world via YouTube. Three Grand Prize
winners will be awarded with $1,000 CASH each! A gourmet
cook herself, Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann on
Gilligan’s Island, jumped at the chance to demonstrate
her unique way of peeling Idaho Potatoes. To see her video,
visit the contest website,
www.iTuber.org.more
Pixelodean Film Festival for Online Video
http://pixelodeonfest.com
June 9-10, Los Angeles, CA
AFI Institute
Pixelodeon is an annual
independent video festival recognizing innovation,
inspiration, and community in global online video. This is
our inaugural year! Over 100 videos, four keynote speakers,
two dozen curators, and several hundred people interested in
independent media will get together in one weekend to
celebrate the diversity and talent of online video content.
If you want to see what’s happening online and meet the
people who are making it happen, this is the place to be.
more
The Nintendo
Short Cuts Showcase
invites filmmakers from all walks of life to demonstrate
their passion and skills by creating a Nintendo-themed short
film or video. The top three films will be chosen by a panel
that includes a Tribeca senior programmer, an entertainment
industry reporter and a Nintendo executive. The final films
will premiere as a part of the inaugural short film showcase
at the Top of the Rock™ Observation Deck at
RockefellerCenter
during Rock
Center’s annual summer film
showcase, June 19-22.
The first-place winner will be awarded
a $10,000 cash prize along with a lunch meeting with the
co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, Craig Hatkoff, and
a trip to New York to see
the winning entry shown at the
RockCenter’s
annual summer film showcase. In addition, the top three
winners will all receive Nintendo hardware and games.
more
Check out
OurStage.com to find some great looking videos -
not boring, crappy YouTube stuff.
It’s a
brand new, 100% democratic competition, a means for
filmmakers (as well as musicians) to get their work out
there, in front of those who matter most the fans and
industry groundbreakers like Paste Magazine, Shooting
People, the LA Final Cut Pro User Group, Noise Pop, Gen
Art, Slamdance, and IFFBoston. Submit your film or video
at
www.ourstage.com/go/studentfilmmakers
.
Let
the site’s film-savvy fans view and judge your
submissions. Win one of two $5,000 Monthly Grand Prizes
(the other is for best music).
The 2007 MTV
Movie Awards is all about the fans this year as MTV rolls
out its first-ever user generated category, “BEST MOVIE
SPOOF” where viewers have the opportunity to submit
their own original movie shorts parodying films from the
past year.
more
The Tupac Amaru Shakur
Foundation (TASF) is asking innovative filmmakers from
around the world to submit their work for inclusion in the
Tupac Amaru Shakur Film Festival. This year's festival is
scheduled to take place on November 10, 2007 at the Tupac
Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts in Atlanta, Georgia.
more
hellogoodbye Remix Contest
ACIDplanet™ proudly presents
Drive-Thru Records recording
artists Hellogoodbye for
remixing. Hellogoodbye fans -
old and new - will be able to
remix the follow up single to
their hit, "Here In Your Arms,"
which is "All Of Your Love,"
from their new album
Zombies! Aliens! Vampires!
Dinosaurs!.
How To Enter - First,
create your remix of
"All Of Your Love." If
you don't already have
ACID® software, download
the free ACID XPRESS™
software. Next, download
some of the loops. Using
the ACID music creation
software, paint the
loops into your remix.
Upload your track, and
you've entered the
contest.
more
Following the sell-out success
of
their
first three Tirk 10" -vinyl-only
singles, In One Ear & Out The
Other/Conductor 71,
Collarbone/Cassette single,
Ankle Injuries/Photocopier,
this
latest album
release compiles new versions of
those six tracks, available for
the first time on CD, with three
previously unreleased scorchers:
Sucker Punch, Transparent
Things, and Cylinders.
more
This one's completely up to you.
Throw your production book out
the window, because the only
materials you'll get for this
one are a copy of the song and
your imagination.
more info
StupidVideos.com (www.stupidvideos.com), announced the
launch of a new promotional program that rewards content
creators up to $25,000 for their video clips. The new
StupidVideos rewards program involves daily, weekly, monthly
and annual cash prizes with winners selected by the
StupidVideos editorial staff. User-submitted clips that are
featured on the StupidVideos.com homepage automatically earn
$5.00 a piece. An additional $100.00 prize is given away
for the funniest video clip of the week and a $1,000.00
prize to the funniest and most emailed clip of the month.
StupidVideos.com will also give away a $25,000 grand prize
for the funniest original video of the year.
more
Gen Art
and Planet Green, a partnership between Starbucks and
Global Green USA, are bringing more opportunities for
aspiring filmmakers by debuting Gen Art’s Online Film
Festival. A select panel of judges from Gen Art will
select seven short films based on originality, quality
and congeniality with the festival’s ‘Green’ theme.
Artists are invited to share their thoughts, concerns,
hopes, and visions about the growing climate crisis.
From March
29th to April 13th, the seven selected shorts will be
available for viewing and voting on
www.genartfestival.com/online and through an interactive
avatar based environment on planetgreengame.com. Through
online voting, one of the seven filmmakers will win $2500
plus a prize package and a premiere screening at the 12th
annual Gen Art Film Festival in New York City.
more
Attention, Star
Wars fan
filmmakers — get
your lights,
cameras and Leia
wigs ready for
another Fan
Movie Challenge!
Star Wars turns
30 this year, so
bring your
A-game. Festival
highlights
include:
• George
Lucas will
select the top
movie
• Finalists
will be
showcased on
Spike TV
• Top movie
to be featured
at Star Wars
Celebration IV
• New
category: Fan
fiction!
Deadline is
April 30th,
so jump to hyper
speed and start
shooting!
Want
to see your video spoof featured at the 2007 MTV Movie
Awards TV Show? This year, fans will be given the chance
to realize their dreams of standing on stage at the "2007
MTV Movie Awards" to accept the legendary golden bucket of
popcorn in front of
Hollywood’s movers and shakers.
Through "MTV Movie Awards on Yahoo," aspiring filmmakers
will be offered the platform to showcase their twisted
genius and story-telling talent. The interactive site,
launching April 23, will allow them to submit their own
original movie shorts parodying films from the past year for
consideration in the first ever “BEST MOVIE SPOOF” User
Generated Category. The undiscovered talent will be revealed
to the world during MTV’s live June 3 broadcast from the
Gibson Theater in
Universal City,
Calif.
more
Win
$1000. The San
Francisco Film Society (SFFS), and Yahoo! Video,
(http://video.yahoo.com) today announced the 50th
San Francisco International Film Festival (SFIFF50)
GreenWorld Contest powered by Jumpcut, a Yahoo! company.
Additionally, the two will launch a branded video channel
featuring content from the San Francisco Film Society The
SFIFF50 GreenWorld Contest, presented by SFFS and Jumpcut,
is an online competition for short films focused on the
necessary conversations, changes, risks, leadership, vision
and imagination needed to make the world truly sustainable.
more
Sundance
Institute, a champion for independent filmmakers for over 25
years, announced that it is joining forces with the GSM
Association (GSMA), whose members serve more than 2 billion
mobile phone customers across the globe, to create the
Sundance Film Festival: Global Short Film Project,
a groundbreaking pilot project that will showcase and extend
the reach of the independent short film genre to mobile
users worldwide.
more
Filmaka.com
is a new contest site where filmmakers get to submit their
short films for viewing, voting, and selection. The winner
of the contest receives a feature film deal with the some of
the world's best known independent producers at
Filmaka.com. more
If you are a
film maker or videomaker looking for a great source of info
about film festivals all over the world - you got to check
out
Withoutabox. It was founded in January, 2000 to serve as
a network for independent filmmakers and their films - to
directly access film festivals, film buyers, and film
audiences throughout the world and to manage those
relationships and transactions from a central console.
This is a really cool - and very
different type of online video contest - Pin the Tail on
the Culture, Inc. announces a contest to find the most
beautiful walker in the USA.
In an effort to support and promote the aesthetics of
curvaceous beautifully walking women,the
company will award three prizes to the best entries. (Note
that we’re NOT saying beautiful walking women,
but beautifully walking women—the face is
irrelevant, only the walk is important.) The company
will showcase all acceptable entries on the company’s
contest website,
http://www.poetryinmotion.info
along with links to the contestant’s web address or email.
When winners are picked in January 2007, they’ll be
announced on the site.
more
You can
now submit your web video productions to the Webby
Awards! The Webby Awards launched its 11th Annual
Call for Entries with the debut of major new awards in
online film and video and interactive advertising.
Hailed as
the "Oscars of the Internet" by the New York Times and
"one of the most prestigious awards in the world" by the
BBC, The Webby Awards is the leading international award
honoring excellence on the Internet.
more
Based in
Australia,
Nice Shorts is a new short film website that hosts
award-winning short films from all over the world. Their
goal is to provide up-and-coming filmmakers a free and
non-exclusive venue for getting their work out there. As
they are filmmakers themselves, they believe in the use of
the internet as the newest and (possibly) most effective
tool for getting films seen by a worldwide audience.
They are
currently non-profit and are relying on word of mouth to
help the site grow. They are looking for new films for
the site and are currently spotlighting short films from
all over the world, including The Philippines,
Australia, Mexico, Denmark, the US and the UK.
Looking
to become part of the online Walmart Video myspace
generation? WalMart has jumped on the MySpace craze and is
offering teens a chance to win some cash and prizes be
creating a commercial for WalMart.
more
CDLHN is encouraging high
school seniors and college-aged teens to create their own 30
second PSA on meningococcal disease prevention. This is a
great opportunity for teens to express their creativity
while doing something for the community. Selected PSAs will
be featured at
www.gotmyshot.org and
www.cdlhn.com and on an upcoming DVD in August.
more
Alltel and AtomFilms® Launch Film Contest for
Wireless Phone Users - Contest on AtomFilms
Site Challenges Consumers to Submit Films Shot
on Wireless Phones; Top 10 entries receive
prizes ranging from $1,000 to $5,000
Alltel, America's largest
wireless network, and Atom Entertainment
Inc.(TM), the broadband entertainment leader,
today announced a new contest on the AtomFilms'
Web site (www.atomfilms.com)
calling on consumers to submit original short
films. The contest invites wireless phone users
to submit video clips, filmed on their wireless
handset, featuring their circle of friends and
family.
more
Jason Mraz fans can now enter
the 'Geek and Me' muvee contest at
www.jasonmraz.com/multimedia. This online muvee-making
contest gives fans the chance to create muvees that weave
their own footage into the artist's original 'Geek In The
Pink' music video.
more
Are you funny but got no
film making skills?
The ‘What
The Hell Did I Just Watch?’ festival is looking for films
and videos. The festival concentrates on showing the
funniest produced comedy with a blind eye to production
value, star power, or marketability. We simply want the
funniest thing out there.
more
Win a
$6,000 Australian Vacation! Contiki is launching a
travel video contest. We’re asking people to submit a minute
to two minute video of any of the locations Contiki goes to,
specifically: Europe,
Australia and
New Zealand
and work in our logo, tour manager and tour bus into the
video. We provide assets for those three images on our
webpage
www.contiki.com/videocontest. We’re taking entries
6/1/06 – 9/30/06. Entrants must be 18-35 years old and if
voted best video on YouTube.com they will win a 14-day trip
for two including all land and air on
ContikiBeaches
and Reefs trip to
Australia. The trip is
valued at $6,000.
Looking for a
contest? Check out this group in Australia.
Newcastle Video Moviemakers
Inc 2006 Competition -
The
annual national/international competition closes on
Monday 4ht September. Entry form and details
available at
www.nvm.org.au
The 10th
Annual Los Angeles International Short Film Festival has
added a new creative commercial category this year. For the
first time LA Shorts Fest will showcase creative commercial
spots for competition. The deadline for entry is July 5,
2006. Entry fee is $275 and the application is available
online at www.lashortsfest.com. Last year, 1200
films were submitted, of which 600 were selected to
participate. Festival founder and executive director Robert
Arentz said, “This is an excellent opportunity for both the
ad agencies and the filmmakers.”
National Short Film contest for University and College
students. - The contest is being hosted by
www.theproject.tv and is structured as a 3-episode short
film miniseries in which the student will have to structure,
write, shoot, and edit a sequence of three, 3 minute short
films which carry a common theme or topic throughout.
more
If you love watching short cool videos you'll love this site. If you
are a videomaker who wants to make money and become famous
making short videos, you'll also love this site. American Express
and the Tribeca Film Festival have teamed up to create the
15 Second Film Festival. They already have lots of great submissions
to check out. The winner gets $1000 for every second of your clip.
The top 100 get an iPOD and a Certificate of Recognition. Crank up
your camcorder and software and make a move.
The Short Film Network (www.ShortFilmNetwork.com) recently
launched to create a mainstream distribution channel for the best
short films. Instead of searching the web for the best short films,
they'll create and send you the best shorts on a compilation DVD
every month direct to your home.
If you are a filmmaker, you might want to contact them and submit
your work.
Short Film Network is also trying to educate filmmakers on making
commercially viable and clearable films. Almost half the indie films
and shorts are unusable because someone used a piece of unlicensed
music, forgot to get someone to sign a release or didn't even know they
had to worry about that stuff.
Also, there's a growing demand for short form video for the internet and
cell phones. Filmmakers have got to learn how to tap these opportunities
and they are trying to help the situation.
Enter Project Fair
Anti-Piracy Short Film
Contest Winners will
receive up to $1000
scholarship/stipend and
prizes.
Winning short films will
premiere at VSDA annual
convention in Las Vegas,
appear in over 4,000 video
stores and be sent to all
major and independent
studios and entertainment
trade associations.
Fuji Film Contest
Open to All Filmmakers
One winner will be selected
from all the contestants to
receive $2,500 worth of Fuji
Film Stock for the
production of the proposed
film.
Film Your Issue is a
national "issue film" competition for Americans 18 to 26.
Its
purpose is to motivate this age group of young Americans
to get politically engaged and create 30- to 60-second
films on any political or social issue that matters to
them. Prizes and a reception/awards ceremony at the
U.N. in June await the winners.
more
The New Filmmakers Showcase is designed to
promote the concept of digital filmmaking and to expand the
worldwide audience for the best new works being created
today.
Show your short film, trailer or work in progress for free
on the Digital Cinema Report Web site. As a filmmaker you'll
retain all rights to your project.
Put your project in front of 40,000 film lovers a month.
That includes top executives at studios, production
companies, post houses, distributors and theatres in 150
countries around the world. To qualify your project must
have been shot and/or edited digitally. We reserve the right
to reject any submission.
Luke, Use the Camera!
- Submit your film for the Offical Star Wars Fan Film Awards
- Think you have what it takes
to be a Jedi filmmaker? Grab your camera and lightsaber and
enter the Star Wars Fan Film Awards. Check out past winners
and create your own tribute. You could win cash and catch
George Lucas' attention!
Want to win $5,000? Do
you use the Firefox browser and like it? Well, Firefox is
running a contest to see who can make the best 30 second
commercials for Firefox. . Check it all out at
Firefox flicks. And even if you don't plan on entering,
you should be using Firefox. Faster, better and safer than
Microsoft Internet Explorer.
If you love
watching great short movies online, you have to check out
the
McGuffin Film Festival. If you are a creator of great
short films you ought to visit the site and submit your film
for the next McGuffin Film Festival.
The
CON-CAN Movie Festival (www.con-can.com),
organized by the CON-CAN Media Plaza, Tokyo, Japan, is
an online audience-interactive film festival targeting
shorts up that express the very souls of their creators.
The CON-CAN Movie Festival accepts submissions up to 20
minutes in length without an entry fee.
more
In
celebration of Drop Dead Festival, the ACIDplanet® world
of music presents the
Drop Dead Festival Mash-Up. Launching into its third
year, and appropriately timed for Halloween, The Drop
Dead Festival is the largest New York festival for dark
and experimental music.
The Grand Prize Winner in the Drop Dead
Festival Mash-Up will receive merchandise from the Drop Dead
Festival and participating bands, plus more than $1,500
worth of Sony® merchandise.
Have you
entered the 555-IFILM Short Film Contest? It's a new short
film contest from IFILM where the winning short filmmaker
gets $5000! If your film has been screened at a film
festival anywhere in the world, you are eligible to submit.
Read the 555-IFILM Short Film Official Contest Rules located
here.
AtomFilms and Intel Corporation have launched the Intel
Indies Film Contest with a call for short film entries
available at
http://intel.atomfilms.com.
Winners will be announced at a major film festival in
January 2006. The contest asks entrants to create films that
imagine what they would do with a magic wand. The theme
allows entrants to fully unleash their imagination and tell
the story of how they would transform their world, to make
it better, easier, and more exciting, all through the magic
of movies.
more
Big-Boys.com announced the
launch of their first annual college video contest. As
students head back to school from their summer vacations,
Big-Boys is offering them an opportunity to cash in on their
memorable college moments - by capturing those moments on
video, and submitting them to Big-Boys.com. Big-Boys will
pay over $20,000 for original videos in just the fall
quarter alone, and will also bring celebrity status to the
creators and stars of the videos themselves.
more
GEICO, the nation’s fourth largest private
passenger auto insurer, announced a contest aimed at
bringing its famous mascot, the GEICO Gecko, to the silver
screen. The new “Golden Gecko” competition challenges all
film-lovers, from aspiring Coppolas to amateur
videographers, to develop a concept for a feature film
starring the Gecko. Entrants are invited to submit a
15-second movie trailer dramatizing their video concept to
www.goldengecko.com, where the public will be able to view
and vote on each contender.
more
Looking to promote your video
or film?
TriggerStreet is looking for short films and videos for
their upcoming contest and exhibition.
Are you
up to speed with
Current? It's a new cable
TV channel with a strong online video presence. They run a
series of contests looking for new filmmakers with an edgy
style and something important to say. Also, check out the
winners of
last year's contest.
. Some of these videos are GREAT. We really liked the
Campaign Ad Commercial, a wonderful parody of what goes on
inside of a typical political ad spot, and How to Start
Your Own Holiday. a pitch for those who are happily
unattached on Valentines Day.
Glitches can be a good thing.
The
Glitch site features two related film festivals -
GlitchFast for DV videos under 3 minutes in length and
GlitchFest for videos from 3 minutes to 10 minutes. There's
contest every year. There are 200 productions
hosted for free on the festival’s website. A retrospective
compilation of the last five editions is also available in
the Glitch’s
online store. If French isn't your language of choice,
scroll tot he bottom of the page and pick English. What are
they looking for? "Let your minds run free, this is the
perfect occasion to show us your guts, your originality,
your talent and all of this in a very small amount of
time!!! At the Glitch Fast, diversity, variety (… and
brevity!) are favored above all else. All genres are
admissible: fake publicities, gags, parodies, very short
dramas, press reports, animation, fake cartoons, in French,
English or others,… be adventurous: it is up to you to
surprise us! As long as the film respects the time limit,
and has a punchy, captivating narrative!"
The
Annual IMVF-Indie Music Video Festival is now
accepting music video entries for their next program.
Cross-continent and cross-genre punk-folk, pop-rock,
roots-goth, industrial-ska karaoke-blues, screamo, hip-hop,
avant garde et al independent artists music videos.
-
Submission
info online at http://www.imvf.com. info@imvf.com
Red Stick International Animation Festival
celebrates and combines the worlds of technology, art,
entertainment, and exploration. The festival highlights
one of the most technically driven art forms today —
animation.
As the largest animation
festival in the United States, this year’s lineup
features some of the top animators, design artists,
artistic recruiters, and industry experts together in
one place for a four-day display of the creativity,
innovation, and future of animation. it includes
special animation screenings from the Cartoon Network
and Lectures and workshops led by industry leaders on
the business and future of animation.
CON-CAN
Media Plaza (Tokyo, Japan) launched in January 2005The
Online Short Film Festival. Short films of up to 20 minutes
in length, any languages and themes accepted -
more
The Alternative for Underground, Independent and
Experimental Film and Video. Cleveland, Ohio
The
"Indie" Gathering Film Festival exists to
showcase the independent filmmaker. Our mission is
to encourage film makers though a competitive
showcase independent features, documentaries,
shorts, music videos and trailers. Filmmakers
participate in their screenings and after the
films speak with audience members who seek a closer
look into the creative process.
Ole Muddy Film
Festival
The
festival is sponsored by the Trempealeau County
Department of Tourism and will be held in
Trempealeau, Wisconsin. More information can be
found at
http://www.olemuddyfilmfestival.com
KnowItAllVideo enables amateurs and professionals to
upload short videos (files less than four megabytes
in size) to find specialized audiences - without the
complexity of setting up a video-capable Website -
to make new friendships, share home videos, seek
peer review, take a shot at fame, or communicate
their skills and experience to a broader audience.
more
The
Accolade Competition is a contest that recognizes film,
video, television and documentary professionals who
demonstrate exceptional achievement. Artistry in film, video
and commercials tickles the senses and delivers meaningful
content. Clients and the public see and hear only the final
film, video, television program or commercial, not the
scripting, directing, lighting, shooting and editing. It
takes intense skill and dedication to produce high quality
film, video, television and commercials. Check out the 2006
Winners Showcase and watch some of the cool and
wonderful productions that have been honored so far.
Are you a
victim of short attention span? Are you part of the MTV
generation and cannot concentrate on anything longer than a
minute or tow? In that case, you will love the BBC's
One Minute Movies web site. Each of these flicks is one
minute or shorter in length. There's a great collection
available for you viewing pleasure. And as they are
streaming a only 75 kbps, you can watch these on a good dial
up or ISDN connection. And if you are video or film maker
they will post your movie for free.
AmazeFilms is looking for your films to promote and
distribute. The AmazeFilms programming catalogue boasts a
selection of award-winning feature films and short films
including winners and selections from Sundance Film
Festival, Cannes Film Festival, Director's Guild of America
and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Their
resource page is very thorough and quite helpful if you
are trying to make a living by producing and/or distributing
short films.
Have you ever heard of
FilmFights.com? Every ten days or so they sponsor a
FilmFight where film makers create short films based on a
single concept or theme. They submit the film and the fight
is on! Some of these films are great. You got to check out
this site. Take off your gloves, strap on your camera and
put up your footage.
3BTV is a UK based streaming video channel that features
an ongoing series of webcasts. Their current line-up of
programming includes a mix of short films and animations -
ranging from goofy to series. In addition, they are
earnestly looking for new work to spotlight. Their focus is
to provide Worldwide entertainment while principally
promoting new works by producers, writers, directors,
animators and musicians etc. who want to broadcast their
work to the widest possible audience. The channel is
broadcasting streaming footage 24 hours a day, with daily
programming changes. They are looking for Short films,
Feature films, Comedies, Music, Documentaries, Animation,
"you've been framed" type video clips, Amateur TV,
University/ college media projects, Sport - skateboarders,
snow boarders, biking, etc. and even exciting, fun or
amusing home video clips.
