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.
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
Austrian animator Gudrun Krebitz took the main festival prize with her film “Exomoon.” Continue Reading
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—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
Magma Poetry is now soliciting work for Magma 71 — The Film Issue: both poems about films and film-poems themselves. Continue Reading
A new international film festival slated for April 6-8th, 2018 in Newlyn, Cornwall, will include a poetry film section. Continue Reading
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
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
A contest sponsored by the Timberline Review with a unique focus on low-budget, low-tech poetry videos. Continue Reading
Filmpoem, the “artists’ moving image project founded by British artist Alastair Cook in 2010,” is at long last sponsoring another poetry-film festival and competition. Continue Reading