Film Poetry Weekend Course in Poole, UK, January 13-14
As part of Light Up Poole’s film poetry competition, Poole Museum are hosting this fantastic film poem weekend course led by Helen Dewberry and Chaucer Cameron. Continue Reading
contests
We strive to link to as many poetry film/video contests and calls for entries as we can. (See also the festivals category.) Please let us know about any we might miss.
Poetry film festival news round-up
Current open calls for submission, plus the results of CYCLOP VI and Cinema Poetica. Continue Reading
Poetry Film Competition: Light Up Poole
Submissions are requested from poets and filmmakers as part of Light Up Poole, a unique digital Light Art Festival aiming to transform Poole’s town centre after dark from 15-17 February 2018. Continue Reading
Art Visuals & Poetry Film Festival Vienna 2017 winners announced
Austrian animator Gudrun Krebitz took the main festival prize with her film “Exomoon.” Continue Reading
Call for submissions: Weimar Poetry Film Award
Once again, the annual backup_festival at Bauhaus University and the Literary Society of Thuringia are cooperating to sponsor a poetry film prize in association with Poetryfilmkanal. Continue Reading
“Descrambled Eggs” wins 2017 Ó Bhéal Poetry Film Competition
Descrambled Eggs—the film by Kayla Jeanson with poet Steve Curry that I just shared on Moving Poems—has won the 2017 IndieCork award for best poetry film! Continue Reading
Call for submissions of poetry and film: Magma 71
Magma Poetry is now soliciting work for Magma 71 — The Film Issue: both poems about films and film-poems themselves. Continue Reading
Call for poetry films: Newlyn Film Festival
A new international film festival slated for April 6-8th, 2018 in Newlyn, Cornwall, will include a poetry film section. Continue Reading
Call for submissions: 2017 Button Poetry Video Contest
For the second year in a row, Button Poetry, producers of arguably the most popular English-language poetry channel on YouTube, are holding a video contest. Submissions opened on August 1, but I just got wind of it. You have until September 15 to submit. Continue Reading
Call for work: 6th CYCLOP International Poetry Film Contest
The 6th CYCLOP Poetry Film Festival will be held on November 25-26, 2017 in Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine. Filmmakers have until Sept. 30 to submit work. Continue Reading