Go to Filmaka.com and enter their new international short film contest! For making a 1 to 3 minute film,15-20 winners win $500 to $3000 USD, plus the final winner of this Feature Film contest wins production funding for a feature film with film makers from Hollywood. The theme for the contest is called "TRUTH OR DARE" - more info at http://www.filmaka.com/competition.php?page=current&competition_id=261 .Submissions are due August 3.Guyz check out the Jury members (http://www.filmaka.com/jury.php) - who include Paul Schrader, Zak Penn and Werner Herzog and more.

Filmaka.com wants people to come up with the next "Southpark" type comedy and pitch it to them. You have to shoot a 3-minute film, but it doesn't have to be high-tech - they're looking for the idea. Then you write a page or two about what the whole series would be like. FX Network wants to pick up one of the submissions to make into a TV show
for their fall season. Not a bad return for making a little video and writing 2 pages.

From the competition submissions, ten semi-finalists will revise their shorts based on notes from FX and receive $1,000. Filmaka will begin accepting uploads for this competition on Monday, April21. The deadline for submitting your film and written brief is midnight on May 1, 2008. After the shorts are revised, one winner will be chosen to receive a budget of up to $40,000 to create a 15- to 20-minute presentation. For more details Log on to

http://filmaka.com/competition.php?page=current&competition_id=251

Documentary filmmakers looking for funding should check out
Filmaka.com's new contest, Filmaka Journal .Upload your Clip not more than 3 minute.
Every contest cycle 2
winners will be given $500 each and at the end of a year of Journal
entries Filmaka will select one director to turn his or her short
into a full length doc. Members can vote on each others work. Filmaka
is looking for shorts that have an impact, pieces that show the
members and audience a side of the world that they might never have
known anything about before. You can enter as many times as you like
and there is no entry fee. Just remember that the piece you enter
will serve as the basis for a doc so make sure it can be developed
into a full length film. Make a Journal, Tell a story, Make a
Difference.