Submissions are now ***OPEN*** for the Winter 2020 contest!! 

 Welcome to the submission page for the Hammer to Nail Short Film Contest. We can't wait to watch your film! Please read over these general guidelines carefully before submitting.

 The contest is open to everyone. Whether you're a student or an old pro and no matter what genre or style you're working in, we are excited to help connect you to our audience and put your film in front of the eyes of industry professionals. But that's not all, as there are some great prizes for the taking! In order to make this contest possible, the following requirements will be strictly enforced:

Your film MUST be 19:59 minutes or less. Unfortunately we absolutely CANNOT consider films that are 20 minutes or longer.

You must own the rights to your film and take full legal responsibility for the content contained therein (music, footage, etc.).

            Films can belong to any genre, format, or style.

We can accept either a link to your film on a site like Youtube or Vimeo (make sure to include a password if required) or a compressed video file of your film in .mov format no greater than 1GB in size. That said, we would much prefer link submissions!

The deadline for this month's competition is **Wednesday, March 11** at 11:59pm PST. Any submissions received after that time will be automatically entered into the following month's competition.

All entries will be reviewed by members of the Hammer to Nail team before 4-6 chosen films will move on to the final round, where their films will be viewed and voted upon by our panel of guest judges. 

Each month's winner and runner(s)-up will receive festival submission fee waivers to major U.S. film festivals, worth around $300, along with the Hammer to Nail stamp of approval on their submitted films. This month's participating festivals include:  IFFBoston, Maryland Film Festival,  Oak Cliff Film Fest, St. Cloud Film Fest,  Julien Dubuque International Film Festival, Oxford Film Fest, Sun Valley Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival, Montclair Film Festival. Montana International Film Festival and  Indie Memphis. and more coming soon!

Please note, we would very much like to encourage you to allow Hammer to Nail to show your short film on the site for a one-week engagement. 

  This month's judges:

• Tony Oswald and Pisiie Hochheim who's short film Handheld won our Fall 2019 contest
• Roger Avary is an Oscar Winning screenwriter (you may have seen the film? Pulp Fiction) who also wrote and directed The Rules of Attraction as well as his latest film, Lucky Day which is available on all digital platforms now.
• Gala Avary is the Executive Producer of Lucky Day  and La voix humaine . She is the Director of Development for AVARY INTERNATIONAL PICTURES, managing IP and screenplay development on all AVARY motion picture, television and immersive media productions. 

More information about the contest and our judges can be found on the Hammer to Nail Short Film Contest page.

Questions about eligibility or about the contest in general? Shoot us an email at HammertoNailMail@gmail.com