Festivals & Submission Opportunities
Milwaukee Film Festival 2025 – Call for Entries
🎥 Features, Shorts, Documentaries | 🌍 🇺🇸 International, US
The Milwaukee Film Festival has opened submissions for its 2025 edition. It accepts narrative features, shorts, and documentaries from around the globe with multiple deadline tiers to accommodate your production timeline.
Key Details:
· Submissions Open: August 1, 2025
· Deadline Tiers: Early, Regular, Late (closes Jan 31, 2026)
Entry Fee: Varies by deadline and category
Victoria Film Festival 2025 – Call for Entries
🎥 Features, Shorts, Animation, Experimental | 🌍 🇨🇦 International, Canada
The Victoria Film Festival (February 7–16, 2025, Victoria, BC) is now accepting submissions for narrative, documentary, animation, and experimental works. Open to global filmmakers, the festival highlights bold, independent voices and does not accept films previously screened in Victoria.
Deadlines:
· Earlybird – July 15, 2025
· Regular – August 15, 2025
· Late – September 15, 2025
· Extended – October 15, 2025
Entry Fee: $15–$80 (varies by category and deadline)
Funding / Labs / Grants
Southern Documentary Fund Production Grant – Now Open
🎥 Documentary | 💰 Up to $10K | 🇺🇸 US
The Southern Documentary Fund’s Production Grant supports documentary projects in production or post-production stages that spotlight underrepresented voices and stories rooted in or relevant to the American South. The grant is open to U.S.-based independent nonfiction filmmakers.
2025 Grant Cycle Details:
· Applications Open: July 14, 2025
· Deadline: August 15, 2025 at 11:59PM EST
Grant Amount: Seven filmmakers will be awarded $15,000 each, totaling $105,000.
Great Lakes Creative Producers Lab 2025 – Applications Open
🎬 Fiction & Documentary Projects | 🎥 Creative Producers | 🌍 East Africa
This year’s Great Lakes Creative Producers Lab supports emerging producers from East Africa working on feature-length fiction or documentary projects in development. The program offers a 5-day residential lab in Kigali, Rwanda, plus follow-up mentorship and peer networking to foster international co-production skills.
· Applications Close: July 18, 202
· Lab Dates: October 20–25, 2025 (Kigali, Rwanda)
Entry Fee: Free
Tools & Resources
Blender – Free & Open‑Source 3D/2D Pipeline
🎨 Animation & Visual Effects | 🌍 International
Blender 4.5 (released May 2, 2025) remains the gold standard for free 3D tools, including Grease Pencil for 2D animation, VFX compositor, video editing, and more—with proven use in major productions like Flow (Oscar‑winning) and Spider‑Man: Across the Spider‑Verse.
G‑Casper Call Sheet Template – Free Download
🎥 Production Logistics | 📋 Call Sheets, Schedules, Scene Tracking | 🌍 International
G‑Casper is a free, cloud-based call sheet and scheduling template built in Google Sheets, designed for assistant directors and production teams. It automates the generation of call sheets, tracks scenes and cast, syncs sunrise/sunset times, dietary needs, and even flags potential scheduling errors. Ideal for indie shoots and professional sets alike.
Key Features:
· Auto-populating cast & crew info
· Smart scene tracker and stripboard
· PDF export + mobile-friendly
· Real-time collaboration in the cloud
· No software install required
Cost: Free and open-source
Job & Creative Opportunities
Post Production Assistant – Stampede Studios
💼 Full-Time | 🎞️ Post-Production | 🇺🇸 Los Angeles
Stampede Studios is hiring a Post Production Assistant to support daily operations in its editorial and finishing departments. Responsibilities include asset tracking, media delivery coordination, and assisting the editorial staff on trailers and campaigns for major entertainment clients.
· Deadline: No listed deadline – apply ASAP
· Salary: 17.87 USD per hour
Executive Assistant, Apple TV+ Publicity
💼 Full-Time | 🗂️ Communications & Publicity | 🇺🇸 US (On-site)
Apple TV+ is hiring an Executive Assistant to support its Communications & Publicity leadership team. The role includes calendar coordination, travel logistics, meeting preparation, budget tracking, and liaising with internal departments and external partners. Ideal for organized, detail-oriented candidates with prior assistant experience in entertainment or media.
· Location: Culver City, California
· Deadline: No listed – apply ASAP
Assistant Content Video Editor – LA Times Studios
💼 Full-Time | 🎬 Post Production, Content Editing | 🇺🇸 US (On-site/Hybrid)
L.A. Times Studios is seeking an Assistant Content Editor to support production and post on branded, digital, and social video projects. Responsibilities include ingest editing, media management, programming streaming platforms, and coordinating with internal stakeholders. Ideal candidates have 4+ years experience in video editing for digital or streaming media, Adobe CC proficiency, and strong post-production workflows knowledge.
· Location: El Segundo, CA (on-site or hybrid)
· Deadline: No listed – apply ASAP
· Salary: $71,000 – $76,000/year
Industry Pulse
Scarlett Johansson Becomes Top-Grossing Actor in Hollywood History
💰 Box Office Milestone | 🎥 Career Impact | 🇺🇸 US
Scarlett Johansson has officially surpassed Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Downey Jr. to become the highest-grossing actor of all time, with a combined box office total exceeding $15.3 billion worldwide. With 36 films to her name, her lead role in Jurassic World: Rebirth helped push her past the milestone. The achievement underscores Johansson’s versatility across franchises like Avengers, Lucy, Ghost in the Shell, and now Jurassic—and signals growing longevity for female leads in blockbuster cinema.
Estimated read: 3 min
Jon M. Chu to Direct Live-Action Hot Wheels Movie
🎬 Franchise Adaptation | 🚗 Toy-to-Screen | 🇺🇸 US
Wicked and Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M. Chu has signed on to direct and produce the upcoming live-action Hot Wheels film, a collaboration between Warner Bros., Mattel, and Bad Robot. First announced in 2019, the project has now accelerated into development with a creative team aiming to fuse high-octane action with character-driven storytelling. Chu’s attachment signals a strong directorial vision behind another major toy-to-screen adaptation—following successes like Barbie.
Estimated read: 2 min
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