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The SFM Bi-Monthly Contest

Past & Current Winners Here

Winners Announced:  6/28/10, 8/19/10, 10/21/10, 12/15/10 **
April Winners are being Notified by email 4/27/10: Listed Below
Entries Received within 7 days of an announcement date, may fall into the next contest period.

Open Genre.  Open Form.  All Are Welcome.  Movies.  Screenplays.
Win the highly sought after SFM exhibitions marketed to 1,000s of buyers, distributors and agents.

For Short Films, Videos and More   For Feature Films
Do you have a short film you would like to make into a feature?  Or maybe, you think your short is perfect for overseas distribution.  Did you make a music video and need to get your talent seen?  Shorts can also Win Screenings in our online Buyers Lounge as well as the Grand Prize SFM Highlighted Market Screening.   You've made a movie, now what? Maybe it's been submitted to festivals and even played in some maybe, but it still not getting the "industry" audience you need.  Try the SFM, where winners of our ongoing contest can receive screenings in our Buyers Lounge as well as the Grand Prize: The SFM Highlighted Market Screening.
Preferred submission method:
SUBMIT A MOVIE OR SCREENPLAY ONLINE
Through the SFM Website TODAY!
For Screenplays   For Incomplete Feature Films
You wrote a screenplay in the hopes it might get turned into a movie, right? Maybe your goal is for a production company to pick up your script and produce it.  Or, maybe, you're looking for an agent.  Or, you have ideas of your own, and would like to include yourself in the production package.  Either way, this is your chance to win a spot in the Script Pitch Cafe to get in front people that can make a difference.   Do you have a project in various stages of completion, but it still has what you think it takes to make the sale?  If so, you can still enter the contest, as the SFM, the only true online market, makes your project available to industry pros that might be willing to help you finish it ...  Win a Buyers Lounge Screening or the the SFM Highlighted Market Screening to put your project in front of decision-makers.
WINNERS receive spotlight exhibitions  in the Movie Buyers Lounge or the Script Pitch Cafe.
FINALISTS Receive exhibitions in the Movie Buyers Lounge or the Script Pitch Cafe.

Winners and Finalists will be contacted via email for further instruction.

CONTEST WINNERS
  JUNE 2010 WINNERS  
  SPOTLIGHT WINNERS!  
Awaiting Her (Short) Albatrocity (Documentary) Tristan and Iseult (Screenplay)
  FINALISTS  
Live My Life (Music Video) Good Cop, (Blank) Cop (Short) A Native Dawn (Screenplay)
Key Bridge (Screenplay) Ronnie Gold's Fight Team (Short) There are no Superheroes (Screenplay)

  APRIL 2010 WINNERS  
  SPOTLIGHT WINNERS!  
A Lonely Place for Dying (Feature) A Girl Like You with a Boy Like Me (Short) Privilege, by Jacob Sloman(Screenplay)
  FINALISTS  
I Like You (Feature) Ecoplaza Paradise Oasis (Short) Carla, by Christoph Schinko(Screenplay)
  Exodus Fall (Feature)  

  FEB. 2010 WINNERS  
  SPOTLIGHT WINNERS!  
Asylum Seekers (Feature) Dark Chocolate (Short) Bakker's Dozen (Screenplay)
  FINALISTS  
Certain Adverse Events (Documentary) August Sweeney: The Monster Barber of Harlem (Screenplay) Chasing Steven Spielberg (Screenplay)
Quickie All Night (Screenplay) Camp Victory (Short)  Loss of Innocence (Screenplay)
Revenge (Short) Roam (Music Video) Finding George (Screenplay)
  The Last Musketeer (Feature)  

  DEC. 2009 WINNERS  
  SPOTLIGHT WINNERS!  
Apples & Oranges (Feature) Four Cups of Joe (Short) Taboo: More than Just Friends (Screenplay)
  FINALISTS  
Guitar Lessons (short) Gus: An American Icon (Feature) Porch Party (Feature)
Body (Screenplay) Take My Wife (Short) The Marked Man (Short)
Winter (Short)   Valley of the Spirits (Screenplay)

Hosted online screenings are presented in a secure, access limited environment, made only available to accredited SFM Buyers.

**Announcement dates are subject to change at the discretion of the SFM.

 
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