Festival

Festival presentation: 

The MIX Short Film Awards (for produced shorts and scripts) - Outside of rewarding current projects, The MIX pairs up emerging short film writers and filmmakers for the purpose of producing future high quality shorts in both traditional and non-traditional formats.  This contest helps facilitate the production of short films by pairing up our top winning  screenwriters & filmmakers and offering them cash prizes or production opportunities. Outside of our main categories where we accept all genres and niches, three awards will be given to the most inspiring writer or filmmaker who best utilizes film as a medium to create awareness, social change, or bring a unique perspective to any one topic. The screening events will be held at the historic Byrd Theatre, Feb 17-19, 2012.

Festival Nickname: 

The MIX

Festival Logo: 

Theme: 

Adventure

African Films

American Films

Animation

Arabic Films

Art, Dance, Music

Art-house films

Asian Films

Awards

Black Culture Films

British Films

Children

Comedy

Crime

Digital

Documentary

Education

Environnement/Nature

European Films

Family

Fantasy/Science Fiction

French Films

German Films

Health/Medical

Historical

Homosexuality

Horror films

Human Rights

Independent

International

Italian Films

Japanese Films

Jewish Films

Latin American Films

Multimedia

Music

National

Religious films

Romance

Science

Senior

Spanish Films

Sport

Student films

Television

Thriller

Underground

War

Western

Women

Youth/Teen

Category/Format: 

Animated Films

Digital / DVD

Documentaries

Experiment

Independant

Industrial

Mixed

Music video

Short films

Student film

Video / TV

The MIX competition rewards current projects as well as brings talented writers and filmmakers together to collaborate on the production of future projects. Participating in the competition also grants entrants a free premium listing in the Media Industry Xchange (MiX), a resource directory and collaborative forum for film and media related industries, which fosters the development and packaging of projects.The MIX accepts short film scripts and produced shorts of all genres and niches. Additionally, we place a special emphasis on pairing up talent that might not otherwise have access to one another, as well as highlight other unique categories that focus on using film as a powerful medium for social change.  We are thrilled to announce a production partnership with Strive Academy for the Corporate Production Award, which is a free category to enter as long as you have entered a project into at least one other main category by the respective contest corporate deadlines for writers and directors (October 1, writers and Novermber 1, directors). See the 'contest and prize' page for further details.The MIX will be a catalyst for producing a new wave of forward thinking projects for 2012 that help transcend traditional creative norms, and we look forward to working with each of you in our inaugural year.  

More than $10,000 in cash and prizes along with production opportunities.  Further, outside of our main categories where we accept all genres and niches, three awards will be given to the most inspiring writer or filmmaker who best utilizes film as a medium to create awareness, social change, or bring a unique perspective to any one topic.

The screening events will be held at the historic Byrd Theatre, Feb 17-19, 2012.