2022 Grand Prize Package

EDITORIAL, AUDIO MIX & PRIVATE FILM SCREENING

With over 10,000 sq.ft. spanning 3 floors of the Wiltern Tower on Wilshire Boulevard in the heart of Los Angeles, Sugar Studios LA offers everything from dailies and editorial to color, mix, and VFX and has truly redefined the post-production experience for independent filmmakers.

Sugar Studios LA will proudly supply the winner with an editorial and audio mix service package and film screening for up to 10 people in Sugar Studios LA’s Penthouse Theater.

LIGHTING & GRIP RENTAL PACKAGE

The MBS Equipment Company, a division of The MBS Group, is one of the world’s largest sources of lighting, grip, and expendables. With proprietary technology, our equipment is also the industry’s most technologically advanced. Innovative, solutions-driven, and invested in success.

MBS Equipment Company will supply the Best Overall Film winner with a rental package valued at $25,000.

COLOR GRADING & DIGITAL MASTERING

Rocket Panda Post is a boutique post-production company based in Burbank, California.

Rocket Panda Post will be supplying the winner with color correction/grading, final digital master creation (5.1/Stereo: 4K, HD, SD), and post-production consultation services, such as a consult with an editor or assistant editor on turnover assets and overall post-production workflow and finishing consulting.

ONE EXECUTIVE PLUS BADGE TO AFM 2022

The 2022 Best Overall Film Winner will receive One Executive Plus Badge to the AFM 2022 in-person event in Santa Monica, California, and one complimentary “Professional” subscription to The Film Catalogue for one year, which includes a subscription to Cinando.

SCREENWRITING SOFTWARE

Final Draft is the industry standard in screenwriting software. Used by such industry giants as J.J. Abrams, James Cameron, and Aaron Sorkin, Final Draft automatically paginates and formats your script to industry standards, allowing writers to focus on what they do best – writing scripts.

Final Draft will provide Final Draft 12 to the winners of Best Feature Film Screenplay, Best Short Film Screenplay, Best Short Film by a First-Time Filmmaker, Best Short by a Student Filmmaker, and Best Short by a 50+ Filmmaker.

BROADCAST AGREEMENT

ShortsTV is the global home of short entertainment with the world’s largest catalog of high-quality short movies and series available on TV, online, and in theaters. The 2022 Winner of Best Narrative Short and Best Documentary Short will receive a broadcast agreement for the United States, Latino America, Europe, and South Asia territories at ShortsTV’s standard fee rates (filmmakers won’t be obligated to accept the offer). In addition, potential distribution on digital partners.

PROPS RENTAL PACKAGE

ISS is the largest full-service prop house in the world with over 2 million rentable items in stock, a fully stocked expendables store, “Corner Store” fully stocked with cleared graphics and Custom Graphics manufacturing, Custom Prop manufacturing, and 45 years of experience in the industry, all under one roof. We are your one-stop-shop for everything “Prop”.

ISS Group will supply the Best Overall Film winner with “Off the shelf” rental package valued at $20,000.

AUDIO EQUIPMENT

Audio Department was founded in 2008 with a dream to bring the knowledge and expertise gathered from working hands-on within the audio industry to a storefront setting.

Audio Department will supply a credit for production rentals, including harnesses, headphones, microphones, mixers and recorders, boom poles, and more.

CAMERA PACKAGE

Keslow Camera is a motion picture camera rentals resource, dedicated to bringing you world-class service and cutting-edge solutions.

Keslow Camera will provide the winner access to cameras (ranging from ARRI, Red, and Sony), lenses, and specialty equipment.

POST-PRODUCTION PLUGINS & TEMPLATES

MotionVFX, an official trusted partner of Apple, is the leading creator of plugins for Final Cut Pro & DaVinci Resolve and Apple Motion templates and the provider of top-quality tools for video editors and motion designers.

MotionVFX will proudly award the winner with a credit- mCredits – to be used at MotionVFX’s online store.

MUSIC LICENSING

West One Music Group is a collaborative community dedicated to producing music for the world’s media.

The Winner of Best Overall Film for the 2022 Program will receive a music license for sync and master. West One Music Group will offer the winning filmmaker unlimited access to their catalog of tracks, and music supervision services to help them navigate their library of 60,000+ songs.

PRODUCTION SUPPLIES & EQUIPMENT

Birns & Sawyer, the oldest movie camera rental shop in Hollywood, has been serving filmmakers for over 65 years. Birns & Sawyer will be supplying credit for production rentals, including cameras, lenses, grip, lighting, monitors, camera accessories, and more.

STUDIO, VEHICLE & EQUIPMENT RENTALS

Hollywood is where great stories are told and countless dreams come true. At Quixote, we’re passionate about the art of storytelling. Named after a legendary dreamer, we believe if you can dream it, it can be real. So keep livin’ the dream.

Quixote will award the Best Overall Film Winner with production rental credits (production supplies and comms rentals), excluding hard costs (sales, subleases), redeemable for up to 2 years from the award date.

PRODUCTION SUPPLIES & EQUIPMENT

Westside Production Rentals provides access to high-quality industry-standard production supplies and will be supplying the winner access to production equipment ranging from walkie-talkies, wireless internet boxes, video supplies, audio supplies and expendables, to tents, grip, and electric and craft supplies.

HELPING INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS

From The Heart Productions is dedicated to helping independent filmmakers – with unique films that make a contribution to society – get their films funded.

The winning filmmaker will receive three 30-minute consultations on raising money for their film, an invitation to the bi-weekly Film Funding Guidance Classes, a 3-hour online class called How To Fund Your Film and a copy of The Art of Film Funding. They will be accepted into the From The Heart Productions fiscal sponsorship program.

FOUR-MONTH PRO MEMBERSHIP

InkTip.com makes finding a good script faster and easier than ever before and has one of the largest networks of producers/reps, making it the ideal platform to promote your script. Over 400 movies have been made from scripts within their network, including Birds of Neptune, The Perfect Family, and Kill Me Three Times.

TECHNICAL ADVISORS FOR TV & FILM

Zeke and Randy’s decades of hands-on experience will give your screenplay or production an unprecedented level of authenticity and real-world details – in law enforcement, tactics, private investigations, bounty-hunting, and the criminal element.

Mehringer & Unger will provide the Best Overall Film winner with four hours of film/tv/script technical advisory services for law enforcement tactics, bounty hunter services, criminal gang behavior, and many more.

CRAFT SERVICES

Looking for an amazing craft services company that impresses not only your crew but your clients? Look no further. Always stay under budget with Sassy Craft’s game-changing sliding scale. Sassy Craft will award the winner craft services in the Los Angeles area.

FILM THREAT

As the premier independent film review site specializing in movie news, filmmaker interviews, film festival coverage and indie DIY how-to, Film Threat’s mission is to champion up-and-coming indie filmmakers while speaking the truth to the entertainment industry…

Film Threat is awarding a Social Boost Package to the winners of the four (4) major categories: Best Narrative Short, Best Narrative Feature, Best Documentary Short, and Best Documentary Feature.

LARGO.AI

Largo.ai empowers traditional content creation workflow with artificial intelligence and supports producers, distributors, directors, writers, financiers, and actors/actresses in their decision-making process. Larogi.ai has a cognitive pattern understanding system from video, audio, and text. The system converts these cognitive patters to meaningful insights for the producers, writers, directors, and distributors. Together with AI analytics, we provide you with a complete workflow management tool that you can use as your own method for evaluation during the development process.

Largo.ai will donate four (4) Largo.ai software licenses for six months with a value of $6,000 each to the winners of Best Documentary Short, Best Documentary Feature, Best Narrative Short, and Best Narrative feature.