Entry Info
The 1.4 Awards Show celebrates the world’s most inventive and original short-form filmmakers.
It’s all about brilliant filmmaking.
Our only requests? Entries must be under 20 minutes, created after January 2024, and never entered in previous 1.4 Awards. Simple!
Media
Media type: Video
File types: mov, mp4
File size: Up to 1 GB
Minimum resolution: 1920 x 1080 Video codec: H264
Deadlines
EARLYBIRD DEADLINE 14 November, 2025 (reduced fee)
STANDARD DEADLINE 17 December, 2025
LATE DEADLINE 20 January, 2026
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Categories
You can enter work in one of three experience levels:
FLYING HIGH ESTABLISHED (Directors with more than 4 years professional experience)
ON THE CUSP OF GREATNESS (1 to 4 years professional experience)
IN THE MAKING (Film students and unsigned new directors with up to 1 year max of professional experience)
...in any of these categories:
Animation/CGI
For the most ingenious animations in the land. A substantial chunk of the work must be animated or computer generated. Films in this category may also be eligible to enter in other 1.4 Awards categories.
Branded Content
Longer projects for brilliant brands. Commercially branded commissioned work, mainly intended for online distribution. Commercials longer than 120 seconds are eligible in this category.
Commercial
Brilliant films for brilliant brands. Films commissioned by a brand as a commercial made primarily for cinema or television distribution. Maximum length: 120 seconds.
Dance
Celebrating the best and most imaginative move-busting work. Strike a pose! Films in this category may also be eligible to enter in other 1.4 Awards categories.
Documentary
Showing us the world as it is. Short-form non-fiction or informative work.
Fashion Film
Beyond the catwalk. Work inspired or commissioned by fashion designers or labels to promote a wearable collection.
Humour
Any short-form piece of filmmaking served funny side up. Films in this category may also be eligible to enter other 1.4 Awards categories.
Music Video
Where music meets the moving image! For work commissioned by a musical artist or label to promote a music track.
Music Video (Extended)
Longer-format pieces in the Music Video space. These can include narrative pieces created around a track or encompassing multiple tracks from an album. Films in this category should generally have a duration upwards of 6 minutes and no more than 20 minutes.
Personal Project
For that film that you just HAD to make. Non-commissioned labours of love, video art projects, or spec commercials.
Planet Positive
Filmmaking with a strong message of sustainability - environmental, social and economic. This category imagines what the world could be, and takes a look at the world we have now. Films in this category may also be eligible to enter in other 1.4 Awards categories.
Short Film
The best of succinct storytelling.
Sport
From fly-fishing to hang gliding, surfing to skateboarding - anything goes as long as it’s exhilarating or mesmerising or a good visual story. Probably not golf then. Films in this category may also be eligible to enter other 1.4 Awards categories.
Judging & Winners
Judging Process:
1.4 and an advisory board of judges will select the Longlist which will be featured on the 1.4 website.
An international jury of creatives, curators and commissioners will then select a Shortlist and the final Winners.
Online laurels will be available for Shortlist and Winners who will be selected by the 1.4 Awards Jury.
Celebration and Ceremony:
The Shortlist and Winners will be honoured at the 1.4 Awards of Brilliant Filmmaking Show and Party (venue TBA).
Shortlisted and Winners’ work will be shown in full-length (unless there are festival restrictions) on the 1.4 magazine website.
Many of the shortlisted and showcased directors will be interviewed and featured on 1.4.
