A free, open-to-all film challenge where YOU create a short sci-fi flick in just seven days. Gather your team, grab your ray gun, and get shooting.

How it Works

This is a non-competitive challenge for anyone to make a short sci-fi film. At 3:30pm on Saturday, June 10, we'll send you a selection of prompts by email to include. You must select ONE to incorporate into your film. All prompts given will be unique to your team, and there's no wrong way to use them. Then you'll have until Saturday, June 17 at 5:30pm to complete your film and submit it for the screening.

The Rules

• Films must be made between 3:30pm on Saturday, June 10th and 5:30pm on Saturday, June 17th.

• Films can be a maximum of 5 minutes in length, titles and credits included.

• When the challenge begins, you will be emailed two prompts. You must select one and incorporate it into your film in some way.

• We'll have the public screening on June 18 at the LSPU Hall at 8pm.

• To qualify for the screening, you must upload your completed film to the Nickel Dropbox by 5:30pm on Saturday, June 17th. Please allow for upload time! Upload link: https://www.dropbox.com/request/7uiAAJsSiS6fAWtE3tji

• Filmmakers must obtain permissions for any locations, subjects, music, sound effects, or stock footage.

• We retain the right to not screen any film we deem inappropriate for any reason.

• Participants under 18 require parental or guardian consent to participate.

• All laws must be respected during film production, and you must ensure the health and safety of all involved.

Sample Prompts

When the challenge begins on June 10, teams will be emailed two prompts. They’ll have to pick one to incorporate it into their film. The following are just examples:

Dream Control: Characters discover they can interact with each other in their dreams

Invisible Threat: A mysterious unseen force causes chaos

Memories for Sale: Characters live in a world where memories can be exchanged

Virtual Prison: Characters are trapped in a digital world

Last One: A character wakes up to find that they're the only human left ... or are they?

Time Dilation: The closer characters get to a certain object or location, time speeds up or slows down

Cosmic Signal: A character receives an encrypted message from outer space and works to decipher it.

Mutation: A character wakes up with heightened senses or abilities

Glitches: Characters notice things that suggests reality is glitching