The second Sony’s Future Filmmaker Awards for brief movies have been launched and are open for entries. Final yr’s inaugural competitors, launched in July, culminated this yr in an awards ceremony on the Cary Grant Theatre on the Sony Footage Studio lot in Culver Metropolis, California. Right here’s how you may be there subsequent yr.

The Awards are free to enter; the deadline is 07:00 AM (CT) on February 15, 2024. You select from six classes: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Setting, Animation (new for this yr), Scholar, and Future Format (the Future Format class should be shot on a smartphone). Every class awards a winner and a shortlist of as much as 5 nominees are acknowledged.

You may enter a number of classes however test the foundations and every class’s standards first earlier than getting into. 

This yr’s classes. Animation is new, and Future Format is just for smartphones. Picture: Sony.

Sony’s Future Filmmaker Awards – the right way to enter

Listed here are the essential necessities for entry (there are extra particulars on Sony’s particular entry website here).

• Movies could be shot on any gadget or digicam (other than the Future Format class).
• The size of your video should be the identical as acknowledged within the class description.
• One submission per individual per class.
• Please guarantee your submission is in English (or contains English subtitles).
• Audio is delivered as mono/stereo and never 5.1 encompass sound.
• You should personal the total copyright of your entry.
• Entries should have been created in 2022 or 2023.

What you possibly can win

What you may win on the 2024 Awards. Picture: Sony.

All class winners and people shortlisted will probably be flown to Los Angeles for a four-day workshop program and awards ceremony with all flight and lodge prices lined. All class winners will obtain a Sony digicam and lens, a certificates, and a trophy. The winner of the Scholar class may even obtain a digicam and lens for his or her affiliated establishment or college.

This yr, Sony has expanded the workshops, doubling the variety of topics lined together with casting, bodily manufacturing, animation, authorized, CGI, innovation at Sony, pitching course of, sound and music mixing, and post-production. There may even be TV and studio excursions. 

Who will probably be judging your work

The Sony’s Future Filmmaker Awards 2024 jury will probably be revealed in October, however final yr’s judges included cinematographer Sir Roger Deakins, Justin Chadwick, an award-winning British theatre, tv, and movie director, Nicole Brown, President of TriStar Footage, and Jeremy Barber, a Associate within the Movement Image Literary and Expertise Departments at UTA.

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