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Guest Editors Announced

Guest editors will be live on the site through May and June picking out their favs and offering feedback on the submissions so far — this is your chance to get your work in front of our experts.

All Scottish personalities,…

Host Your Own Workshop

Throughout the Northern Lights submission period we will be organising workshops around the country to help you create your submissions. But did you know that you can host your own?

If you have been thinking about submitting…

£10K Award Categories

Want to have your film in front of funny-man Sanjeev Kohli (Navid from ‘Still Game’), film critic Hannah McGill, Inbetweeners producer Chris Young, or feisty journalist and commentator Lesley Riddoch? Now is your chance! The £10,000 award fund has been divided into categories…

Submission of the Week £100

Want to take part in Northern Lights and win £100?
We are launching a weekly competition called ‘Submission of the Week’, where you can win £100 for taking part.

Each week, beginning now, we will select a winner from the best direct…

‘How to’ make your video

Sanjeev Kohli (Navid from ‘Still Game’) and ‘pals’ have very kindly made some ‘how-to’ videos for our site. So if you are looking to get hints and tips on preparing, shooting or uploading your video, get inspired, or even just…

Join our Workshops & win £1000

We are excited by our first workshop taking place yesterday – delivered by Diversity Films. Participants made their own videos and uploaded them to the Northern Lights website.  Soon, we will be hitting the road and taking different types of…

‘How to’ get included

Northern Lights is open for more submissions! There won’t be another feature film but we will showcase all submissions on the website, championing some of the best ones on a regular basis, so keep ‘em coming!

There is a…

Win £2500 for Your Video

Here’s another good reason to send in your video submissions: with our ‘People’s Choice Award’ we’re giving £2500 to the video submission that gets the most votes on the Northern Lights website. Here’s how it works:

How to Vote

When you visit…

Make an iPhone Film

Come along to our new ‘how to video with your iPhone’ workshop and you could win our £1000 workshop award from Northern Lights.

Anyone can grab their iPhone and start videoing what they see around them. But with a little bit of…

What will I submit?

These are our questions to get you started with your videos for Northern Lights:

1. What can you see?
2. What do you wish you had seen?
3. What do you want to see in the future?

But there’s more; how do you feel…

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