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AudPop Presents
2022 Indigenous Documentary Film Challenge
Celebrating and showcasing Indigenous filmmakers
As part of Native American Culture & Heritage Month in the United States, AudPop, in partnership with Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, is thrilled to bring you the 2022 Indigenous Documentary Film Challenge. Oscar nominee Lily Gladstone will choose our Grand Prize Winner.
We invite filmmakers to submit documentary films, 20 minutes and under, directed or produced by Indigenous filmmakers residing in North America, including Native American, Alaska Native, Kanaka Maoli, First Nations, Métis and Inuit of Canada, and those of Indigenous heritage from south of the US border and of Pasifika heritage living in North America.
How It Works: Filmmakers have until January 13, 2023, to upload and submit their short documentary films to the challenge. From the accepted submissions, the AudPop team will select three finalists. The top 3 finalist films will be announced January 20 and will screen at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival between February 17 - 26, 2023, in Missoula, Montana. By February 26, 2023, a panel of Indigenous industry professionals will jury the films and award a grand prize and two honorable mention awards.
Uploading your film checklist:
- Use Google Chrome for optimal uploading.
- Ensure your film is under 500 MB. If you screen at BSDFF, we will ask for a larger file for the screening.
- If you have done the above 2 and experience difficulty, reach out to monique@audpop.com.
The mission of the 2022 Indigenous Documentary Film Challenge:
- To accelerate the careers of Indigenous documentary filmmakers
- Stream the films across eyeball driven platform
- Provide more opportunities for Indigenous doc filmmakers by screening their work at the largest doc film fest in the West
- Creativity (45%)
- Technical Merit (30%)
- Adherence to the Assignment (25%)
Awards for the winning films:
- Grand Prize Jury Award
- 2 Honorable Mention Jury Awards
Prizes:
- Grand Prize Jury Award: $100 + premium status* + screening at Big Sky Film Festival Feb. 17-26, 2023.
- 2 Honorable Mention Jury Awards: $50 + premium status* + screening at Big Sky Film Festival Feb. 17-26, 2023
*AudPop premium status marks you as a premium filmmaker/creator. AudPop reaches out to our premium and pro filmmakers and creators when there are brand jobs and entertainment opportunities for our top talent.
ABOUT BIG SKY DOC FEST: Now entering its 20th year, the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is the premier venue for non-fiction film in the American West. Big Sky offers an ideal setting for filmmakers to premiere new work and develop lasting relationships with fellow filmmakers and industry. The festival draws an audience of 20,000 and film entries from every corner of the globe to a uniquely intimate mountain town setting with a local Montana flavor. A hybrid festival, audiences can enjoy the festival prrogram in Big Sky's virtual cinema from nearly anywhere in the world. Selected for 5 years running by MovieMaker Magazine's 50 Festivals Worth the Entry Fee, BSDFF is a top-100 rated festival on FilmFreeway and is an Academy Award-qualifying festival for short documentaries
More about this challenge:
The finalist films in this challenge may be used across additional multiple distribution channels.
Your film may have been previously screened and distributed.
Your film will be publicly viewed, so make sure it’s the right time for your film to gain an online audience. If it's too early for the public to watch your short film online, we invite you to come back next year and submit.
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SUBMISSIONS DUE BY
Submissions Closed
WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Jan 31, 2023 at 12:00pm MST (America/Denver)
FINAL TEAM AWARDS
Grand Prize Jury Award: $100 + Screen at BSDFF + Premium Filmmaker Status
2 Honorable Mention: $50 + Screen at BSDFF + Premium Filmmaker Status
