2021 Charity Film Awards open for entries
Melanie May | 23 June 2021 | News
The annual free to enter Charity Film Awards are now open for entries, with a six week window for submissions.
Charities are categorised based on income generated in the last financial year, with the awards broken down into eight turnover categories ranging from an annual income of between zero and £10,000 to £500 million and over. For each bracket the awards body selects a gold, silver and bronze winner. As well as the judges’ selection, there is a People’s Choice category, voted on by the public, and an overall winner.
More than 1,500 films have entered the Charity Film Awards so far over the course of its five-year history. Over a quarter of a million members of the public have voted with the competition resulting in millions of views for the participating organisations.
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Last year’s winners included the Shahid Afridi Foundation, an organisation improving basic services in Pakistan, which won the People’s Choice award for the income bracket of £100,000 to £500,000, and The Salvation Army, which, with a film to raise the profile of its campaign tackling modern slavery, won the People’s Choice Award for charities with a turnover of over £100 million.
The Charity Film Awards joined forces with Smiley Movement in March this year and is encouraging charities and corporate causes to submit films to compete for public recognition. Any registered charity, CIC, social enterprise, charity media agency or brand with a corporate social responsibility initiative can enter a film in the awards, provided the film was first broadcast in the last eighteen months.
About Melanie May
Melanie May is a journalist and copywriter specialising in writing both for and about the charity and marketing services sectors since 2001. She can be reached via thepurplepim.com.