Make a short film and win $1,000!

Are you a filmmaker?

Are you a photographer with video experience?

Would you like to win $1,000?


Do you want to make a new short film?

Do you already have an existing short film that you would like to submit?


We are looking for a great short film to help us promote our upcoming Alternative & Erotic Arts Film Festival.

The chosen short film will be rewarded with a $1,000 cash prize.


We want to celebrate sensuality in a non pornographic way, as we all experience it in our everyday lives.


As a guideline for your story, we have put together the following possible synopsis. This is just a guideline, you can follow your own or submit an existing short film.


Title: "Missing you"


Anna writes a letter to her lover from some years ago. She is feeling nostalgic remembering how they used to be together.

Haunted by their relationship, she is still bound to the past with a chain of emotions.

Nostalgia is a feeling of captivity and she cannot let go, but she has to in order to move on and be free.

The letter becomes a cathartic exercise in which she uses her sexual expression to take control of the emotions and feelings that are keeping her connected to the memories of the past.

In the process of owning those memories of pleasures and lust, she believes she can control her feelings by calling back the moments of their relationship as she pleases.

But does she have real control or is it just an illusion?


Do you have questions?


We are collating all of your questions (with answers) here: Short Film FAQs.


Do you have a short film to submit?


You can upload your existing short film to our Video Section and send us the link. You can publish it for sale or not, it is up to you.


Are you interested?


Send us an email at info@bentbox.co so that we can discuss the details.

Contest Terms and Conditions


This contest is run by BentBox.co by Haas & Reed B.V. hereafter referred to as BentBox.

All submissions should be sent through before the 31st of August 2019.

All submissions will be judged by the BentBox team. The winning short film will be chosen by the BentBox team on the basis of image quality and storytelling compellingness. BentBox won't have to diclose all criteria involved in the decision making process. BentBox decision will be final.

All submissions will be commented by our team (on the public page of the videos) and gave a score based on its storytelling value, camera work and image quality.

BentBox will choose the winning video only on the basis of merit and in light of how well the short film will represent BentBox upcoming Erotic Art Film Festival.

In order to be judged, the videos will have to be loaded on the video section of BentBox. Uploaders won't incur any fee to upload the video. Participating in the contest is free of charge.

The winning short film will be awarded a cash prize of $1,000 USD. The cash prize will be paid to the BentBox account owner who uploaded the video.

BentBox will not aquire the copyright to the short film, however the creator/s of the video will grant BentBox all exclusive rights, at no cost, to use the winning short film for all types of promotions on any online and offline communications and on any web platform and websites without a limit of time. BentBox rights to use the short film extend to the short film in its entirety or any part of it.

BentBox will have the rights to modify and re-edit the winning short film to create separate edits to use as BentBox see fits.

The creator/s of the short film will be allowed to use the short film, showing the BentBox intro about the Erotic Art Film Festival, on their BentBox page and other social media pages for personal promotion.

BentBox will acknowledge the BentBox account owner who uploaded the winning short film on any BentBox web page where the video is available to be played.

All submissions should be free of any watermark and should only contain original footage; submissions cannot contain footage of videos downloaded from the internet or aquired from a third party.

All submissions must come accompanied by signed model release forms along with a copy of the IDs of all models/talents visible in the short film. All models/talents should be at least 18 years old.

All submissions will be uploaded as regular BentBox Videos. Only the judging BentBox team will have access to the videos and they won't be available to the public. However, posters may publish their video for sale as a regular BentBox Video.

BentBox will not have any promtional rights on the non-winning submissions. Posters will be able to publish the videos for sale if they wish to do so. If published for sale, BentBox will treat the non-winning submissions like any other BentBox Video.