Entries Open for Debut 2 Feature Film Competition

If you're a commercials director hoping to realise your dream of feature filmmaking - and you've got a killer idea for a fiction feature film, then Salon Debut wants to hear from you.

Launched in 2015 by Salon Pictures, the London-based production company behind award-winning feature documentary The Guv'nor [below] and the current Churchill biopic, the Salon Debut competition offers first-time feature filmmakers the opportunity to have their project fully financed (at a budget level of £1,000,000), produced and distributed domestically and internationally.

There are no geographic or age restrictions: all you need to enter is to be an individual writer-director (and first-time feature filmmaker) in possession of an original idea.  

"Salon is looking for high-concept ideas, novel ways of expression, a fresh approach. In short, we are not interested in reading standard genre fare: we want to produce a film... which makes noise, generates appetite, has festival play, and marks out its director as a compelling and revelatory force," state Salon's founders Nick Taussig and Paul Van Carter, who have produced six features by first-time directors. "Think the technically unthinkable (Victoria, 2015), the unexplored subculture (Tangerine, 2015), the unasked what if? (Another Earth, 2011), and just outright outrageous (Human Centipede, 2009)."

To enter, simply email a one-page PDF of your concept to debut@salonpictures.co.uk and include the following information:

• Title, genre and location.

• Your name (you should be the writer and director).

• A logline (a one-sentence summary of the film).

• An outline (500-word detailed description, including the beginning/middle/end of the film, with spoilers).

 The deadline for entries is 15 September 2017.