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Celebrating its 25th anniversary, this prestigious Italian showcase is accepting independent features, documentaries, and short films, featuring a newly expanded (r)evolution AI competitive category designed to elevate innovative visual storytelling.
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Earlybird Deadline: May 29, 2026
Event Date: November 25 – December 4, 2026
Location: Rome, Italy
An Academy Award-qualifying East Coast hub that connects independent features, documentaries, shorts, and screenplays with industry professionals, distributors, and enthusiastic audiences in downtown Portsmouth.
Key Details:
Regular Deadline: June 1, 2026
Event Date: October 15 – 18, 2026
Location: Portsmouth, NH, USA
FUNDING & PROGRAMS
Formerly known as the VIWFF Screenplay Competition, this global initiative invites narrative features and television pilots written by women and gender-diverse screenwriters, offering career-defining festival passes, private story editing packages, and extensive industry promotion.
Key Details:
Deadline: May 31, 2026
Benefit: Professional development, festival pass, story editing package, and marketing
Eligibility: Global women and gender-diverse screenwriters (narrative features and pilots)
A specialized script competition looking for contained narrative features in action, horror, sci-fi, and thriller genres. The winning screenplay will be developed and packaged for production by Witchcraft Motion Picture Company.
Key Details:
Deadline: June 10, 2026 (Early Bird)
Benefit: Development and packaging contract with Witchcraft Motion Picture Company
Eligibility: Global screenwriters (original features)
Loglines+ News
🔒 This week, Loglines+ members had access to:
Month-long fully funded retreat in Kyoto with round-trip airfare and $800 stipend for global filmmakers and writers.
Fully funded 4–10 week residencies with $1,000/month stipend for global artists. (Closes June 1)
Up to $20K in finishing funds for music-focused documentaries.
Coordinator role at Paramount in Hollywood. ($55K–$65K)
Members can search the full archive anytime to find past opportunities.
TOOLS & RESOURCES
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A comprehensive article and PDF template that helps you move from script to production. It provides a structured way to track essential element, from cast and props to special effects and wardrobe, helping you organize your logistics before you step onto a set.
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JOBS
BBC Studios is hiring an emerging director based in Wales to shadow and direct a full broadcast episode of the medical drama Casualty at Roath Lock Studios in Cardiff, offering hands-on experience and a primetime television credit.
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Location: Cardiff, Wales, UK
Type: Paid Placement
Salary: Not-Listed
Help find the voice talent that brings characters to life. This role involves brainstorming actor ideas with directors and producers, sourcing audio clips, evaluating agency submissions, and running auditions for reference and production dialogue.
Key Details:
Location: Burbank, California, USA
Type: Full-time
Salary: $65,600 – $84,800 / year
INDUSTRY PULSE
Amazon MGM Studios and AWS have introduced a joint fund to support creators using generative AI. The initiative provides production grants and exclusive access to the Project Nara platform, launching with three greenlit animated series scheduled for Prime Video.
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MUBI has released the first trailer for Jane Schoenbrun’s satirical sapphic horror feature, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, starring Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder. The meta-narrative follows an enthusiastic young director tasked with reviving a waning slasher franchise.
Estimated read: 2 min
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