NO MERCY is not a film festival.
It is a monthly live screening series where your work is judged in real time by a room full of people who do not care about your feelings.
This takes place inside the DOJO.
Every selected project is not hand-picked or curated behind closed doors.
It is pulled at random from the DOJO BOWL.
The DOJO BOWL is a randomized selection system that removes politics, favoritism, and gatekeeping.
Everyone has the same odds.
No connections.
No special treatment.
No one jumps the line.
If your name gets pulled, your film goes on screen.
At the 60 second mark, the room decides your fate.
If the audience turns on you, your film is cut.
If you survive, you run the full piece.
Alongside the audience, a rotating panel of filmmakers, comedians, and creatives reacts in real time.
Not as judges.
As part of the pressure.
Every creator is interviewed after their screening.
Doesn’t matter if you got cut at 60 seconds or made it to the end.
You still step up and talk about your work.
At the end of the night, one project is chosen as the Audience Winner and awarded the coveted NO MERCY Champion’s Gi.
Then it resets.
New month. New entries. New names in the bowl.
Some people come back better.
Some don’t come back at all.
Over time, the names that survive start to mean something.
This is Trial by Screen.
Free to attend.
Open to anyone willing to take the risk.
Presented by LBVM.
Audience Winner (Monthly)
Each month, one project survives the room and is selected as the Audience Winner.
The winner is awarded the coveted NO MERCY Champion’s Gi.
A physical symbol of survival inside the DOJO.
Something you earn. Something you wear. Something you come back to defend.
Winners also receive:
Prize packs from LBVM and brand partners (gear, merch, and sponsor drops as available)
Featured placement across LBVM YouTube releases and social distribution
Recognition that carries into future events
If you keep showing up and surviving, people start to remember your name.
