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It's not surprising that – with the world's biggest network of independent Filmmakers – Shooting People is frequently approached by organisations looking for support with their Film Competitions.
This page is our pick of the best: the ones with whom we work the most closely and those that we think offer filmmakers the juiciest prizes, the sexiest juries, the loveliest staff... and, of course, we run our own: Film of the Month.
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Every month, three top rated members' films are sent to our patrons for review and to decide: Which is Shooting People's Film of the Month?
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Do you have a short film or trailer you could adapt into a feature film? Submit it to Openfilm's 'Get It Made' competition when submissions open for a chance to win $50,000 in cash and $450,000 in production financing to get your film made with Openfilm Studios. Deadline to be announced here soon!
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DepicT! is the 90 second film competition that forms part of the Encounters Short Film Festival in November. Every year they award the Shooting People Audience Favourite. Deadline - 9 July 2012.
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Knice is an anti knife-crime initiative which aims to engage young people in creative projects. They've launched a short film competition with the theme 'Priceless Moment.' Competition deadline June 15th
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FOCUS FORWARD is awarding $200,000 to five winners. Submit your three-minute nonfiction film about invention and innovation before August 23rd.
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In 2012 Reelshow International are running 6 online (bimonthly) student film competitions as well as a series of 30 second TV Commercial competitions. Check out the competition calendar here
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We asked filmmakers to submit shorts inspired by Werner Herzog's distinct and ambition filmmaking style, focussing on man's relation to nature. We had a great
shortlist and top winner.
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Shooting People and Optimum joined forces to run an upload competition in conjunction with the film's release. Rob Munday's film Mechanically Recovered Chicken won, landing him a screening of his short before the feature at a top London cinema.
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Animatron, from our friends at Babelgum, was the world's first online and mobile competition for Animation and Anime. Five Shooters won cash prizes, with Simon Robson winning the Grand Prize. You can watch all the shortlisted films on the site.
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Divine Chocolate is joining forces with the Birds Eye View Film Festival to promote a wonderful opportunity for women filmmakers (professionals and amateurs) to create a short film about Divine. The winner will get 2000UKP to produce the film plus a year's membership to Shooting People
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Jameson is back with its 'Done in Sixty Seconds' competition, which asks you to remake your favourite film into mere minute. This novel idea creates some amusing and thoughtful responses.
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What can you say in 5, 10 or 20 seconds of film? That's what the folks over at The Ultra Short Film Competition are trying to find out. The theme of this year's competition is 'Surprise!'. Sounds like a fun challenge to us.
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2 Days Later Short Film Competition is looking for 10 minute horror shorts and will host a screening of entries on 29 October. This established competition seeks out new talent on the independent filmmaking scene, and helps them to network and showcase their work for industry professionals.
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LMFAO and Tuborg want someone from the UK public to co-direct a 50,000UKP music video in Las Vegas. Please note that due to alcohol advertising codes you must be over 25 to enter.
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Do your bit and help Greenpeace turn the cameras on Volkswagen for their International film competition.
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Collabor8te aims to seek out the best scriptwriter's from the UK and Ireland. Unique filmmaking teams will be created and 8 films will be produced and then travel the international film festival circuit.
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One especially for the composers out there from South West Screen. Check out clips from the film '8 Minutes Idle' on their site, then create a piece of original music to soundtrack a house party scene in the film.
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Create a comedy film consisting of 4 shots, which are each 4 seconds long - that's just 16 seconds of film content to make the judges laugh (excluding title/credits).The competition is open to anyone 18-25 and the funniest film will win a cash prize of £1,000.
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The RSA & Nominet Trust invite you to choose an audio excerpt from their site, and create an animation to go with it; traditional, stop-motion, moving collage, or maybe even a combination of media. Winning entries get 2,000UKP and are featured on the RSA's hit YouTube site.
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The reed.co.uk Short Film Competition is back and this year they've taken 'The Boss' as their theme. Show them your stuff in no more than three minutes and you can be in with a chance of winning some priceless industry exposure and top cash prizes. Find out more. Closed.
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Be part of the London 2010 Olympics and Paralympics by making a three minute film inspired by the games' values of Respect, Excellence, Friendship, Courage, Determination, Inspiration, Equality and Truce.
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A Global short film competition - put a human face to the challenges facing the world. Choose from one of seven themes including Poverty and breaking the circle of inequality, Empowerment and progress of women and girls and Urbanization-planning for growth.
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Drawing inspiration from Silent House, a film captured in real time in one
continuous take, the Silent House competition wants to see your horrifying 88 second shorts. It's up to you whether it's a self-contained short or an extract from a longer film.
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MyStreet 2012 Competition has launched and runs until May 8th. Upload
your short docs to join the MyStreet Map at www.mystreetfilms.com -
major jury to select, public screenings, prizes.
