Screen Australia opens its 2026–27 short film production fund, offering A$50,000–A$100,000 for live action and up to A$125,000 for animation or hybrid shorts.

Miami Film Festival has opened The Louies documentary fund, offering $100,000 in support including three $10,000 grants for short documentary projects.

Mountainfilm has opened 2027 documentary short submissions, with a 14 January final deadline and a $5,000 Oscar-qualifying Best Documentary Short award.

Tribeca Festival has opened 2027 short-film submissions for narrative, documentary, animation and experimental films under 40 minutes, with a final deadline of 3 February 2027.

SEMILLERU Lab opens its 2026 call for short and feature projects in Spain, offering two €4,000 awards plus mentoring and post-production support.

Balinale opens 2027 submissions for narrative, documentary and animated shorts, with an Oscar-qualifying award route and a 1 March final deadline.

CAPE opens the 2026–27 Julia S. Gouw Short Film Challenge with four $25,000 production grants, industry access and mentorship for selected filmmakers.

MusicAtlas opens the Fall 2026 Robin Film Grant with a $1,000 music licensing award and $5,000+ in filmmaker support, closing 15 November.

Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg has opened 2027 submissions for shorts up to 30 minutes, with a 31 January deadline, €15,500 in prizes and an EFA nomination route.

With Black Men in Uniform: The Untold Story, director Emunah La-Paz approaches Black military history as part of a much broader American story—one shaped not only by discrimination and sacrifice, but also by service, achievement, culture, family and resilience. Blending archival material, oral history, digital imagery and a contemporary visual rhythm, the documentary seeks to […]

The 15th Montclair Film Festival has revealed its complete 2026 programme, with dedicated documentary, fiction and New Jersey short-film competitions among a substantial slate of shorts screening in October. The Montclair Film Festival has completed the line-up for its 15th edition, which will take place from 16–25 October 2026 in Montclair, New Jersey, with short […]

The Vancouver Short Film Festival is accepting Canadian and British Columbia short films for its 16th edition, taking place from 28–30 May 2027 at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts. The Vancouver Short Film Festival has opened its 2027 call for entries, inviting filmmakers from across Canada to submit short-form work for its 16th annual […]

Fifteen UK-based writers, directors and producers have been selected for BFI NETWORK@LFF 2026, the British Film Institute’s flagship development programme for early-career filmmakers moving towards their first feature. The British Film Institute has revealed the 15 filmmakers selected for the 2026 edition of BFI NETWORK@LFF, its annual professional-development programme held alongside the BFI London Film […]

Six fiction short-film projects have been selected from 48 applications for the inaugural Gourara Lab, a development initiative running alongside Algeria’s Timimoun International Short Film Festival. The Timimoun International Short Film Festival has revealed the six projects selected for the first edition of its Gourara Lab, a development programme dedicated specifically to fiction short films. […]

Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea International Film Festival will skip 2026 after organisers postponed its sixth edition to the fourth quarter of 2027, citing considerations around timing and the logistics of staging the international event. The Red Sea International Film Festival has postponed its sixth edition, cancelling its planned December 2026 event in Jeddah and moving […]

The Toronto International Film Festival has named the winners of its 2026 Short Cuts competition, with three films receiving $10,000 prizes across international, Canadian and animation categories. The Toronto International Film Festival has announced the winners of its 2026 Short Cuts awards, recognising three films from Greece, Canada and the United Kingdom as the festival […]

For Spanish–British filmmaker David Cordon, directing is shaped by an unusually broad creative and professional journey. From chemistry and music documentaries to more than a decade working in visual effects at companies including DNEG, Framestore and Cinesite, Cordon has spent much of his career observing the relationship between complex systems and the people operating within […]