We have announced nominees for our May 28-29 Gala in Green Bay. Winners & wildcards at this Gala (like those we had in January in Arkansas) will battle at our Best of the Year Gala, September 2-4, 2022 (a 3-day film fest at St. Brendan's Inn and the Tarlton).
5th season coming up on June 1! Nominees in this June-October window will battle in Arkansas in mid January. Winners will qualify for the Best of the Year round in September 2023.
For this upcoming June-October window (new season), we will have a Screenplay category with 4 nominees each window (the June-November and the January through April) with 2 winners at each gala. The top 4 winners will battle at our Best of the Year Gala in Green Bay, in September 2023. Golden Globe winner (Monk, 2001) Tony Shalhoub, a Green Bay native, will decide the Best Screenplay of the year winner and it will be announced at the September 2023 Gala.
Early June through mid-November is our next window, new season 5. Those nominees in the May-November window will get a chance to screen with us in Little Rock, Arkansas in January 2023. Those winning will qualify for the Best of the Year in September 2023 (Green Bay Wisconsin).
We are based in Green Bay Wisconsin and run 3 in person screenings gala fest events per year: in Arkansas (January qualifier in-person screening gala... we just finished it), Green Bay (May 28-29 qualifier in-person screening gala) and the Best of the Year Gala (September 2-4) in Green Bay. Iconic Tarlton Theatre in the heart of Green Bay is confirmed for May 29, 2022. Tickets are now selling for May 28-29. Check out the event details on facebook.com/mlcawards
We accept most genre shorts, feature films, music video entries. Animated or non-animated productions, narrative fiction or non fiction, independently produced or in union status. You name it: shorts, features, pilot or series eps, music or creative videos and documentaries. Westerns/ Sci-fi / Halloween-themed are all welcome. If you go to mlcawards.com/results you may notice that when we announce nominees (May 2) we like to add some of the nominees to additional categories not listed in the submission column, depending on what talent our team of 8 judges (spread throughout WI, IL, OH, PA, AR) can see.
For horror types, which we accept here, we also have our sister competition Scene Awards, also being at the same Galas we co-host (filmfreeway.com/sceneawards) but horror with sci fi or sfx elements is also welcome here under category 5. Also comedy, romance, thrillers, SFX films under this same category. We also love music videos (we call them jewels).
MLC stands for Mobster (as in drama, thrillers, scifi, horror, crime) - Latinx - Comedy. While those are three basic pillars in what we like to judge in productions, we are open to and have many awards in other aspects--see submission categories and awards on mlcawards.com).
Back to our current window, the MORE categories you think your film will fit in, the BIGGER the chances of selection, nomination or even award or a chance to have your film screened. We also do videos (creative, experimental... see Best Jewel submission category).
We also honor cast even beyond what the submission categories indicate. This means that if we like a supporting or day player actor, or a specific sound or color treatment aspect, we can nominate and award this actor.
We select over 60 films per semester/window.
We celebrate all genres, but most especially "M-L-C components" described in the Awards & Prizes section. MLC stands for Mobster - Latino - Comedy. We also love Midwest-Made productions (see our Midwest section) and anything loaded with VFX, great sound, animation, etc. We also welcome creative youtube videos, promo videos, trailers of movies, etc.
See Rules & Terms (or the categories themselves) for a detailed explanation on our submission categories.
On this our 4th season, where we have 2 windows instead of the quarterly windows we had in season 3. The particularity with our current Rise semester window is that Nominees picked in May could get a double chance to screen their work with us, both, in May (should they win or become a wildcard) and in September 2022.
In September during the Best of the Year MLC Awards Gala we will screen some of those Fall and Rise winners and wildcards thus giving some of you exposure to audiences in the South and the Upper Midwest. Rise window winners and wildcards will be announced in June. And then the Best of the Year Winners will be screened (some of them) , decided and announced at the September 2022 Gala in Green Bay.
We issue awards recognizing all budget type productions--besides cast and crew--every 4-5 months in over 30 categories. Indeed, other than the awards listed on each category (see each submission category), we also have Honorable Mention (HM) and Special Jury Mention (SJM) Awards. These, along with the Semester (Fall or Rise Semesters) Award winners receive an e-certificate. Wildcards do not receive a certificate, but get Outstanding Achievement credit on IMDb and can order a trophy.
Visit www.mlcawards.com for winners and nominees of our previous window, but do keep in mind the new changes, expanding awards (see categories and pricing).
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