2025 FESTIVALApril 2-12, 2025Lansing, MI

2024 Fortnight Film Contest

The Capital City Film Festival’s Fortnight Film Contest is a competition for teams of amateur, student, and professional filmmakers in Michigan. Do a good job, win some money. $5,000+ in cash prizes up for grabs!
  • CONTEST DATES
    March 14 – March 28, 2024
  • REGISTRATION
    Open
  • FEE
    $100 - entry includes two (2) all-access passes to the 2024 Capital City Film Festival ($50 value each!)

Congrats to the 2023 Fortnight Film Contest winners!

  • 1st Place: The King's Gambit by Travis Hayward
  • 2nd Place: And He Was Like by Isis Diaz
  • 3rd Place: Waterworks by Aral Gribble
  • Audience Choice: The Invasion by Thang Mung
  • Audience Choice: Kindled Flame by Sam Klassa
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Congrats to the 2022 Fortnight Film Contest winners!

  • 1st Place: Lone Wolf by Nicholas Gascho
  • 2nd Place: Latrinarium by Travis Hayward
  • 3rd Place: Midwest Emo by Nick Couture
  • Audience Choice: Being a Youth by Bears Eat Beets Productions
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Congrats to the 2019 Fortnight Film Contest winners!

  • 1st Place: Last Right by Nomadic Disturbance
  • 2nd Place: Pendulum by Strike to Burn
  • 3rd Place: Hit by Team Hojo
  • Audience Choice: Coinrun Park by Bears Eat Beets Productions
  • Best Screenplay: On the Way by Katelyn Robakiewicz
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Congrats to the 2018 Fortnight Film Contest winners!

  • 1st Place: Firecracker by Katrina Robinson
  • 2nd Place: Arti by Nomadic Disturbance
  • 3rd Place tie: Affinity by Bears Eat Beets
  • 3rd Place tie: Headshot by BSL Cinema
  • 3rd Place tie: Seedlings by Katelyn Robakiewicz
  • Audience Choice: Breaking Wheel by Rebel Pictures
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Congrats to the 2017 Fortnight Film Contest winners!

  • 1st Place: Peripheral by Casey Cavanaugh
  • 2nd Place: Tracker by David Fairman
  • 3rd Place tie: Kidnapped for Good by Mitten State Productions
  • 3rd Place tie: Chapter Four by Strike to Burn Productions
  • 3rd Place tie: Goldfish by Big Shot Video
  • Audience Choice: Tracker by David Fairman
  • Best Original Score: Nazi Punch by Ninja Mind Productions
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