Filmmakers' Interest Articles

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is currently accepting entries for the 2011 Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition. Up to five $30,000 fellowships will be awarded through the program in November. From the Academy's press release: The Nicholl Fellowships competition is open to any individual who has not earned more than $5,000 from the sale or option of a screenplay or [...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhGx0CdAQz8[/youtube] The 2010 Artivist Film Festival, to be held Oct. 5-9 in Hollywood, is currently accepting submissions. The deadline is June 1. Interested filmmakers should go here. According to its press release, Artivist is "dedicated to addressing human rights, children's advocacy, environmental preservation, and animal rights." The release adds that the festival's missions "is to strengthen the voice of international activist artists while raising public [...]

Below is a press release about an online short film competition: The competition is all about online collaboration where filmmakers, musicians and all artists are invited to make original short films inspired by using sounds they discover inside the The Smalls Street Sounds interactive Sound Map. Sounds are being uploaded to the groundbreaking new sound collaboration launched by The Smalls www.thesmalls.com and Scion www.scion.com by [...]

PRESS RELEASE Due to an overwhelming number of requests, the MUNICH INTERNATIONAL short film festival has extended its deadline to March 14, 2010. Our festival focuses on exploring and introducing extraordinary short films from countries all over the world with the hope of assisting up-and-coming filmmakers on the path to making quality, feature-length films. From June 17 – 23, the 5th edition of the MUNICH [...]