AGBO has announced the return of their filmmaking competition, No Sleep ‘til Film Fest, inviting filmmakers from all over the world to make a short film in only 48 hours. Part of AGBO’s commitment to championing emerging content creators, the two-day festival challenges participants to make bite-sized films, three minutes or less, for a chance to win prizes and mentorship from the independent studio.
The virtual festival will be open world-wide for submissions from Sept. 29th – Oct. 1st with a creative prompt released online Sept. 29th at 5pm PT; filmmakers will have 48 hours to create and submit their films based off of the prompt by 5pm PT on Oct. 1st. Winners will be announced Nov. 8th.
The festival received over 1400 submissions from over 60 countries in the past two years of the festival. 2022 winners included P E N directed by Waldo Levendal (South Africa), Trade directed by Joel Phillips (Australia) and Movie, The Film: A Motion Picture directed by Clay Lacey.
The panel of judges include AGBO Co-Founders Anthony and Joe Russo, Chief Creative Officer Angela Russo-Otstot, Chief Innovation Officer Jake Aust, Chief Marketing Officer Marian Koltai-Levine, President of Film Michael Disco and President of Television Scott Nemes. The AGBO executives will select three winning films to premiere across the AGBOVERSE as well as AGBO’s social channels, and winners will receive prizes provided in sponsorship by RED Digital Camera, GoPro, Microsoft, Blackmagic Design, AGBO, and Red Bull.
All three winners will join the AGBO Storytellers Collective, an alumni network of participants from other AGBO fellowship programs. The current Storytellers Collective members will also participate in judging, selecting an additional winning filmmaker to receive the “AGBO Storytellers Collective Award” and join the alumni network.
