Global ONE Screen 2024 Short Film Festival Now Accepting Entries

Jul. 23, 2024

The One Club for Creativity opened the call for entries for the 2024 edition of ONE Screen, the original short film festival for the global creative community that unites and celebrates filmmakers from both commercial advertising and film industries.

The fast-growing festival recognizes numerous forms and aspects of short films, including narrative fiction, comedy, passion projects, commercials, branded content, music videos, spec work, animation, sound design, movie poster design, title sequences, and more.  

The mission of the program which typically receives entries from upwards of 45 countries — is to celebrate filmmakers working in both the film and ad industries, with no limitation and total artistic freedom, all on one screen.  

The global ONE Screen 2024 call for entries is now open.  A tiered pricing structure based on entry deadlines makes the competition affordable even for freelancers and small independents: $60 for entries received by the September 30, 2024 early deadline, $70 by the October 7, 2024 regular deadline, and $85 by the extended deadline of October 14, 2024.

Entries are judged by a jury of leading film directors, producers, ad agency creatives, and heads of production companies, to be announced shortly.  Winners will be unveiled at the ONE Screen Short Film Festival ceremony and screening in February 2025.

“Answer Me”, created by Banana Balloon Shenzhen on behalf of Tencent Sustainable Social Value, was the top winner in last year’s ONE Screen competition.  The short film was named Best of Show, Best of Region-Asia Pacific, and awarded three Craft awards: one each in Screenplay, Directing, and Casting. 

ONE Screen is part of The One Club for Creativity, the foremost global non-profit organization celebrating creative excellence in advertising and design, and has its pedigree in The One Show, the club’s leading global awards program for advertising and design.  

The One Show was the first ad industry awards competition to recognize original branded content, creating the separate new category of Branded Entertainment in 2003 to accommodate the first work from BMW Films. The ONE Screen Short Film Festival was launched in 2011 to further honor creative excellence in film.

Past ONE Screen winners also include Oscar-winning director Laurent Witz, as well as Martín Rosete, director of award-winning feature film “Money”, whose producer first connected with him at the ONE Screen awards ceremony in 2014.  An archive of past winners, sorted by year, can be viewed here.

Please visit the ONE Screen entry site to view categories and submission requirements.