IMDb Qualifying
"So You Think You Can Direct/Act" is a competition targeted at recognizing the talent of writers,directors, Documentary Filmmakers, actors, actresses, and crews from around the world.
Directors, submit your finished film, documentary, or short.
Actors and crew submit their reels or featured movie clips to the competition to consider their skills in many genres, from drama to comedy. Or, for the multi-faceted actor, they may also submit combination-genre clips.

What makes So You Think You Can Direct/Act unique among other director and actor-oriented competitions?
SYTYCA instituted a system to ensure that entries do not compete against each other but recognize their merit.
They compete against themselves: we judge each entry on individual merits and score on an inherent value system.
We want to ensure that the judges' focus is on you, not on all the other directors or actors on cue, ensuring that they will not have comparisons in their minds when they should focus entirely on YOU.

Awards & Prizes

• DIRECTORS SCREENING: We screen only the Best of Festival winners.
Our screening event is to collect audience reactions to be used by our distributors. We don't conduct after-screening networking parties or seminars.
Video interviews of the viewing audience may be conducted and shown on WRPN.tv

-Best of Festival Directors receive a Certificate (Free shipping in the USA only)

We will judge directors to receive the following awards:
Best Of Festival - Best of Show - Outstanding Excellence - Excellence - Exceptional Merit - Merit and Kudos.

• DISTRIBUTION: We guarantee top award-winning directors (Best of Festival) will have their film reviewed by our distribution associates: Worldwide Motion Pictures Corporation, Adler & Associates, and Cardinal XD (a combined 70+ years of experience in getting films like yours worldwide distribution).

• ON-LINE EXPOSURE: The WRPN.tv Entertainment Network offers a unique OPTIONAL opportunity to publicize your film or Acting Demo Reel to a worldwide community of WRPN.tv viewers from 80+ countries plus specially invited casting directors and distributors that filmmakers and actors would not usually have access.

• ACTORS and CREW: Winning top awards (Best of Festival) allows you to have your display page at WRPN.tv, including bios, Video Demo Reel, and photos. Best of Festival actors also receive a frameable certificate. (Free shipping in the USA only)

Get your Platinum-winning scripts submitted to Polaris Pictures, a film finance company, for possible production consideration.
Polaris does not accept unsolicited submissions.

Screenplay rejected? We will tell you the reason (s), and you’ll have a chance to resubmit up to 30 days before the last deadline or the following season for free.

SYTYCDA accepts unproduced and produced feature-length screenplays between 70 and 130 pages, unproduced and produced short screenplays under 40 pages, unproduced and produced Teleplays of 45 to 70 pages, and unproduced and produced Webisode pilots of 10 to 20 pages.

Ordering award certificates is optional.

Rules & Terms

We require English subtitles for foreign language films.
If submitting clips from film performances, they should be from 1 to 10 minutes, and these could be a montage of clips.
Monologues should be no longer than 5 minutes.
Please do not include monologues in a montage clip.
Please let us know the film's name and director's name when submitting a single clip with your performance in a movie.

DIRECTORS: Film submissions through FilmFreeway only.
If you win a TOP Best of Festival award, we will give you instructions about the delivery of screening materials.

The competition reserves the right to refuse entries.

REFUNDS POLICY: In the event you withdraw your submission prior to being Officially Selected, you will receive a refund.
If you withdraw AFTER being Officially Selected, there will be NO refunds.
All our judges (selection and awarding) are paid. We don’t use unpaid volunteers.

Our founders are proud Committee Members for the Universal Film & Festival Organization, a non-profit operating out of the U.K., which exists to promote best business practices for film festivals. Please check our FilmFreeway Reviews.

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  • Ian Charles Lister

    Delighted to receive an exceptional merit award for the direction of my film "Lulu in Turin". Thank you!

    August 2025
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  • Cameron Ring

    Great Film Festival that truly allows talent to rise the surface, rather than whichever production has the most money to spend on Advertising

    August 2025
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  • Amina Warsuma

    They were honest and they won't take your money and not give you an award or reject your project and keep your funds. They are the only ones that I will pay up front.

    June 2024
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  • Yerania Del Orbe MFA

    This was an interesting festival! Glad to have participated and win!! Thank you La Santera

    January 2022
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  • Sybil Jatta

    We are so humbled and honored to have been selected into your amazing film festival event! Our award-winning documentary feature film "AKWAABA The Awakening", is in God's hands touching the hearts 💕 of the world. Continued peace, prosperity, blessings and good health.

    November 2021
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