Get Your First Feature Financed and Made with This One-of-a-Kind New Festival
Have you made a short or written a screenplay and are ready for your first feature? Here’s a chance to get it made. Filmmakers Charles Beale and Jess Jacklin had a sense that many of their peers were...
View ArticleApply to Firelight Media's Documentary Lab to Tell The Stories That Shape Our...
In a world filled with pressing issues, here's your chance to shine a light on one of them. Given our current news cycle of constant information and misinformation overload, it can be difficult to get...
View ArticleApply to AFI's Two New Programs Created to Support Female Cinematographers
AFI and 21st Century Fox are teaming up for two initiatives designed to provide new opportunities for female DPs. New programs introduced to help up-and-coming cinematographers hone their craft can be...
View ArticleApply for VidCon's Creator Grant For a Chance to Receive $2K
Over the next 52 weeks, the popular Anaheim convention will provide a total of $104,000 in grant money to online video creators. While the ninth annual VidCon may have concluded this past weekend, the...
View ArticleSubmit a 'Holy' Pitch to Get $40K Toward Making Your Short Film
An opportunity this good can be saintly. Pitching can be difficult. With just a concept in your mind and a heart on your sleeve, selling a group of industry professionals on the idea of your...
View ArticleAre You a Doc Filmmaker of Color in Your 20s? Apply to the North Star Residency
Spend a week in Camden, Maine meeting documentary all-stars at an all-star festival. It's no secret that we're big fans of the documentary-adoring team who run the Points North Institute and its...
View ArticleThe Duplass Brothers and Seed&Spark are Providing $50K to Make a Feature Set...
Through their 'Hometown Heroes' initiative, the two indie stalwarts want you to put your home on the map. In a commendable effort to discover and expand upon the wealth of cinematic stories being...
View ArticleFilmstro & BAFTA Want to Give You $40K Worth of Gear for a Five-Minute Short
If you use Filmstro to score a short film, you could win a package that includes serious goodies from Blackmagic, Zacuto, Rode, and more. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and...
View ArticleWin $10,000 and an Online Premiere for Your Sci-Fi Short
A $10K sci-fi short film competition that wants to prove that "no bond is stronger than family." Throughout the year, we feature a number of short film competitions that are on the search for awesome...
View ArticleHave a Funny Pitch for a Series? Apply to this Upcoming Comedy Lab in NYC
It takes a lot to be funny, but this upcoming Lab wants to make the process a little easier. While the old adage "dying is easy, comedy is hard," may or may not be true (we'd be damned if we put the...
View ArticleAre you a Filmmaker Who's 18 Years Old or Younger? Here are 18 Great Film...
You're only a teenage filmmaker once. Why not apply to some film festivals with opportunities just for you? Getting through high school, getting a driver's license, finding a summer job—if you're a...
View ArticleGet Mentored by Screenwriting Professionals at the 2019 Middlebury Script Lab
Working on a script and have a love for skiing? This Lab is for you. It might be time to pack up your winter coat and the latest edition of Final Draft. After a successful inaugural run in 2017, the...
View ArticleTurn Your Unused RED Footage into Cash
Get some global promotion for free from Pond5. Do you own a RED camera? Think you got any good shots in the past couple of years? If your answer is yes, then this opportunity may be for you. Pond5 is...
View ArticleBetween the Ages of 18-24? Apply to the Sundance Ignite Short Film Challenge
Feel like you're too young to get noticed? Let's change that. While there are numerous opportunities for filmmakers looking to begin their careers with a solid foundation and support system, few this...
View ArticleGot an Untold Story? Win $1 Million to Make It
AT&T and Tribeca Film Festival want to help fund and distribute films from underrepresented filmmakers. If you're a filmmaker from an underrepresented community with a screenplay ready to shoot in...
View ArticleFeeling Lonely? This is the Film Festival For You
If you've got a film short film about loneliness, consider submitting to the Unlonely Project this winter. We all use art to work out any demons that linger on in the mind, and loneliness is one of...
View ArticleCan Your One-Page Script Win You a Laptop? Find Out in This Contest from...
Brevity is the soul of wit, and to prove it, SoCreate started the “Get Writing” Screenplay Competition where the winning screenplay must only be a single page long. What’s the catch? Hey, you’re the...
View ArticleParticipants Announced for Sundance Institute's Screenwriters Intensive
A great opportunity to put on your radar. The 2019 Sundance Film Festival may have concluded earlier this month, but the year-round Sundance Institute that puts on the festival remains hard at work....
View ArticleWinning This Contest Will Make Your Micro-Budget Film Happen
StudioFest is now open for submissions. Here is what you need to know. MovieMaker Magazine has a story about StudioFest and we wanted to help spread the news about this opportunity. We covered...
View ArticleSSFF & ASIA 2022 Wants to See Your Tokyo-Themed Short Films
Make a short film about an imaginative Tokyo and win 1 million Japanese yen! Here's a chance to get creative. The festival is not only looking for films that take place in Tokyo, but also for films...
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