The deadline for registration for the Comedy Shorts Award has passed.
If you have a short film or sketch that you think is hilarious, then enter your work for our Comedy Shorts Award to be in with a chance of winning some life-changing support and mentoring from comedy professionals.
WHAT KIND OF FILM ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?
A 1- 6 minute film that can take the form of anything comical. It’s a great opportunity to show us your creative flair and have fun!
WHO CAN ENTER?
This award is open to all women filmmakers and content developers. The film must be an original narrative created, produced and devised by a woman, or women, although male cast and crew members are allowed.
ARE THERE ANY ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR MY FILM?
Yes – we require all films to be 6 minutes or under, to be entirely original dialogue, to not feature brand logos and most importantly, to only use music with the written consent of the performer and/or publisher either personally or via the PRS system https://www.prsformusic.com/ .
WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH MY FILM?
We will broadcast selected entries on our Funny Women YouTube channel and social media (so keep an eye out) and the top 10 finalists’ films will also hosted on a dedicated Funny Women Comedy Shorts Awards page on our website. We will also broadcast the final 3 entries as part of the grand final night.
HOW IS IT JUDGED?
Films are judged for production, concept, delivery/performance, creativity, writing and overall funniness. The top 10 films are then viewed by an independent judging panel of top television and film industry professionals who will choose one overall winner and two runners up. The final three will be invited to attend the grand final in London on the 23rd September.
WHAT CAN I WIN?
2021 Funny Women Awards Prizes
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Love isn’t funny
Lily Phillips
Have you heard the one about the girl that is in a loving, stable committed relationship with a really great guy who just gets her? Nope. Because it’s not funny and it’s kinda smug TBH. As a stand up I try to draw on my personal life as much as possible and what I’ve found works best is not telling the audience how much you love your partner but how much they annoy the fuck out of you.
We want to hear about how much his incessant guitar playing grates on you and that if he plays House of the Rising Sun one more time you are going to put your head in the oven. Or how he seems to be physically incapable of shutting a cupboard door and every time he makes a piece of toast the kitchen looks like a scene from The Sixth Sense (you know when the ghosts are trying to communicate with the living via kitchen cabinets? Remember? Also he was dead the whole time! spoiler!) And how the sound of him eating said toast makes you wish you were also one of those dead people.
This is all 100% true but what is also true is that I love him deeply and can’t imagine myself with anyone else (OK, perhaps I could, but alas Channing Tatum is taken). And as my partner and I embark on our next journey – bringing a new human into the world – I know that however amazingly wonderful my baby is (which it will be, because even if it’s not, my hormones will convince me it is!) you guys will really only want to hear about the madness.
The savage sleep deprivation causing me to put my phone in the fridge (wish I could put his damn guitar in the fridge), the dog using my breast pump as a chew toy and the infinite toilet disasters (my nephew managed to fire a poop right onto my brother’s sleeping head once). And we can all bathe in mine and my partner’s (who I secretly love madly but you dare don’t tell anyone – I’ve got a rep to protect) misadventurous glory!
Lily Phillips is performing her new show Smut at Soho Theatre from 16th to 18th February, Tickets available here. Read our review of the show as seen at Edinburgh Fringe here.
Lily Phillips
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