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

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.

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

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 Contiki Beaches 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 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.”

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.

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.

Contact the publisher for more details at publisher@digitalcinemareport.com.

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 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

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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.

TriggerStreet spotlights the best of the best

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

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 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.

AtomFilms – This is one of the original Internet video and animation sites and still serves as a great place to see and watch both videos created for the Internet as well as ShockWave, stop motion and Flash animations.  It really is two sites AtomFilm.com and Shockwave.com. Atom Film features a collection of short animated and video productions.  The Shockwave site is a bit different and functions as a central clearing house for Shockwave created content, tools and products. The Atom Films and Shockwave sites are seeking quality films and animations for worldwide commercial distribution to their network of television, airline, home entertainment, and new media outlets. They accept live-action and animation submissions with running times under 30 minutes.

  The Bit Screen. http://www.thebitscreen.com/

  The Bit Screen delivers first-run Internet films and web series directly to your desktop. Every week, they add new programs every week to this site as well as on The Best of The Bit Screen on Broadcast.com (www.broadcast.com/video). They are actively seeking new films and videos to promote. They are looking for Internet-based films, animations and episodics, 1 to 10 minutes long. The Bit Screen is a lab for exploring how an interactive Internet medium impacts storytelling and are searching for shorts that are created to work in and with the Internet environment - programs that define and expand the concept of film for the next hundred years. They also sponsor the Streaming Cinema contest and festival that puts on shows on various locations throughout the world.