Meet Our Shortlist: heat Content Creator Award 2022

Voting is now OPEN for the heat Content Creator Award. The winner will be announced next week at our live final. Let me take you through who is up for winning this exciting award! Anne Crowther (aka Christiana Brockbank) Christiana is a writer and performer from Bolton whose writing reflects the warmth, situations, dialogue and […]

2022 COMEDY SHORTS AWARD SUPPORTED BY LSFF SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED!

The standard of entries across this year’s Comedy Shorts Award has been the usual high standard. We had a real skirmish in the Judges room but we are delighted with our Top 10 shortlist! Each of the videos on the shortlist represent a variety of genres, styles and topics, and and the panel of Judges are going to not only […]

2022 COMEDY WRITING AWARD SPONSORED BY SKY STUDIOS SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED!

The debates were heated and the discussions were long. We have managed to get our shortlist. This shortlist has an incredible range of styles, subjects, and scenarios that we will now present to our next judging panel. These scripts will go on to our next stage where we will pick a Top Three and the winner. The scripts that made the […]

FINALISTS ANNOUNCED FOR THE 2022 STAGE AWARD SPONSORED BY NEXT UP COMEDY.

The judging is over. The spreadsheet is saved. The scores are set. In our search for the 10 acts to go through to final of the 2022 Funny Women Stage Award, our team and a select panel of industry judges scored over 400 submission videos from over 14 timezones in multiple stages; two preliminary rounds, 12 live online […]

2022 STAGE AWARDS SUPPORTED BY NEXTUP COMEDY… SEMI-FINALISTS ANNOUNCED!

The 2022 Funny Women Awards are officially two thirds of the way towards finding the best breakthrough comedy talent. After 12 fantastic Stage Award Virtual Heats featuring acts from all over the world and much, appropriately, heated debate we are delighted to announce our very deserving semi-finalists. Four semi-finals will take place place on 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th August 2022. […]

2022 COMEDY WRITING AWARD SPONSORED BY SKY STUDIOS LONGLIST ANNOUNCED! 

This year we received a prodigious number of scripts for the 2022 Funny Women Comedy Writing Award sponsored by Sky Studios. With the help of our fantastic panel of readers from the comedy industry we have now read and scored over 150 scripts and narrowed them down to a longlist of 25. The standard was […]

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Comedy Shorts Award Entry Requirements

The deadline for registration for the Comedy Shorts Award has passed.

Funny Women NextUp…Comedy Shorts Award

Are you a budding Director? Producer? Screenwriter? Are you collaborating with friends to make a funny video? Then we are looking for YOU!

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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