A leading technology company has announced the return of what it describes as the world’s largest short film competition, with a million dollar cash prize pool.
My Rode Reel, from Rode Microphones, is offering filmmakers around the world the chance to enter across 10 categories. The prize pool includes a top reward of 200,000 dollars (about £153,000), and Rode said it is the biggest cash prize ever offered in a short film competition.
Peter Freedman, founder of Rode, recently paid six million dollars (about £4.6 million) for a guitar once belonging to Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain and plans on exhibiting it around the world, with all proceeds going to the performing arts.
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