The Film Racing 2007 Tour will be coming to Toronto on Saturday, July 7, 2007. Filmmakers will be challenged to create an original short film in just 12 hours, from noon to midnight.
What is Film Racing?
Film Racing is a nationwide competition that challenges filmmakers to create original short films in just [...]

The 14th Annual Slamdance Film Festival is now open for submissions.
Categories:
“The 2008 Slamdance Film Festival will include, but will not be limited to the following programmes: I. Feature Competition II. Documentary Competition III. Special Screenings IV. Animated Shorts V. Gallery Shorts VI. Anarchy Shorts VII. $99 Special Shorts”
Fees:
(In USD) “The early deadline [...]

The Intelligent Use of Water Film Competition is looking for short film entries:
“The Intelligent Use of Water Film Competition seeks short films (1-20 minutes in actual or excerpted run time) that focus on the topic of water conservation. Narrative, documentary, animated, experimental and/or student-made productions should explore approaches and ideas to intelligently manage and [...]

The 2007 Co-operative Young Film-Makers Festival is open to young filmmakers aged 21 or younger. Entries must be under six minutes long.
“Your film can be about anything you like. Be co-operative, be creative and express yourself. Make others laugh, challenge stereotypes, tell a quirky tale, experiment a little (or a lot), tell others about [...]

The Apollo Film Festival, a South African film festival celebrating South African cinema, has a final call for entries for submissions to this year’s festival, which will be held in Victoria West September 21 to 29, 2007.
Deadline for entries: 5 pm, July 1, 2007.
For more information, see Filmmaker South Africa.

The deadline for the Sunny SuperFan Contest has been extended to May 29th. The contest is looking for a 1-minute video that shows why you are a Sunny SuperFan (of the comedy series, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia)..
WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
Videos that:
1. Show your love for Sunny and the gang
2. Show creativity and [...]

The Heartland Film Festival is accepting entries for its 16th annual film festival. While the early bird deadline has passed, there’s still time to meet the regular and late deadlines.
From the site:
“Heartland Film Festival awards $200,000 in cash prizes including a $100,000 Grand Prize for Best Dramatic Feature, a $25,000 Award for Best [...]

The CallWave Video Contest is looking for submissions which focus on how CallWave tools have made life easier by simplifying everyday communications.
Contest details: All video submissions must be in QuickTimes .MOV, Windows .AVI or .MPG format and no bigger than 5 MB. The video must end with a verbal or text notation directing the [...]

The BusBoys Summer Nights Online video contest seeks video submissions for “It Must Be Saturday Night”, the first single from the BusBoy’s Sex, Love and Rock & Roll music project.
To Enter:
1. Make your video showing your “Sex, Love, and Rock & Roll” over Summer 2007 to The Busboys’ “It Must Be Saturday Night!”
2. Upload [...]

The Traverse City Film Festival Trailer Competition is looking specifically for entries for 2007 festival trailers:
All trailer film submissions must be in English or contain English subtitles, and may be of any genre (comedy, drama, documentary, horror). There is a limit of five (5) film submissions per person. Each film submitted by a [...]

The VISA What’s My Score video contest is open to very short films, no longer than 30 seconds in length, which answers a the question “why a college student should care about his/her credit score”.
Eligibility: The contest is open to legal residents of the US who are 18 years or older.
Deadline: Deadline for [...]

The LA Shorts Fest is now accepting submissions for the 2007 festival:
11th Annual LA Shorts Fest is the largest short film festival in the world, screening 700 films of every category. We are accredited by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences. In past years, 25 participants have earned Academy Award nominations, this [...]

The Nintendo Short Cuts Showcase competition:
Filmmakers from all walks of life are invited to demonstrate their passion and skills by creating a Nintendo-themed short film or video. Create a three-to-five minute film incorporating Nintendo and enter to win a public screening in New York City!
Eligibility: The competition is open to legal residents of the [...]

The LMN (Lifetime Movie Network) Student Filmmaker Competition is a competition to identify and celebrate the best short (three-to-five-minute) films produced by female film students from across the country.
Eligibility: The competition is open to women who are legal residents of the U.S., 18 years of age or older, and who are college or graduate [...]

Comedy Central and AtomFilms is holding the second Comedy Central Test Pilots competition. They are looking for comedy pilots, in any of the following formats:
* QuickTime (.mov, .qt, .mp4, .3gp)
* MPEG (.mpg, .mpeg, .mp2)
* Windows Media (.wmv)
* AVI [...]

The SXSWclick film competition is open to films ten minutes in length or shorter: “SXSWclick is a year-round initiative created to showcase short-form storytelling via mobile devices and the web.”
Deadline for submissions: June 15th, 2007.
Submission fee: $10.
Categories for submission:
Old-School Shorts › Tried’n true narrative shorts, shot on anything you like.
Really Real Shorts › Documentary [...]

What can you do with 90 seconds of film?
“DepicT! is Watershed’s unique filmmaking competition, part of Encounters International Short Film Festival, which challenges filmmakers from across the globe to come up with a compelling, imaginative idea and distil it into 90 seconds of cinematic originality.”
Deadline for entries to the DepicT! ‘07 competition is [...]

The Early Bird entry deadline has passed, but the Big Bang Film Festival is still accepting entries under its Regular Deadline of June 1, 2007, and its Late Deadline of August 17, 2007. And if you don’t make this last deadline, there is the Last Chance deadline of August 24, 2007 (Note: with each [...]

Stranglehold’s True to John Woo short film contest is looking for short film entries no more than 2 and a half minutes in length. Top prize is $25,000 and the national television debut of the winning film on Spike TV.
Eligibility: The Stranglehold True to John Woo Contest (the “Contest”) is open only to legal [...]

The Portland Art Museum’s Northwest Film Center is holding its 31st annual Young People’s Film & Video Festival, and is seeking entries.
Eligibility: Any young film or video maker, grades K-12, living in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Utah or Alaska may enter a film, video, animation, or multi-media work in any theme or style [...]