Annual Members Competition, 2026
Surrey Border Movie Makers annual video competition
UPDATE
The SBMM video competition CLOSING DATE will soon be here. You have until Wednesday 4th NOV to submit your videos – that is less than a month!
This competition is open to all members and that includes anyone who joins now; they too can submit their videos to the competition.
The awards include:
- Ron Clements Award for Creativity.
- The Jackson Trophy Overall Winner
- The Jack Stribblings Trophy: Best first time winner.
- Dick Hibberd Trophy for Best Camerawork
- Arthur English Memorial Trophy for Best Photography.
- Sir Paul Holden Trophy for Best Use of Commentary
- Pat Doherty Award for Best Use of Sound
- Penny Johnson Trophy for Best Editing
The link is
https://surreyborder.org.uk/index.php/competitions-2/members-competion/
rules are:
https://surreyborder.org.uk/index.php/2023/10/15/annual-members-competition-rules/
submit page is:
https://surreyborder.org.uk/index.php/2026/09/26/2026-members-competition-upload-page/
Good Luck!
John Hawthorne
Competitions Officer.
ANNUAL MEMBERS COMPETITION
YES! It’s that time again. The year has flown by really fast…. But yes, its time to start thinking about your entries for the club’s BIG ANNUAL COMPETITION!
RULES: No longer than 6 minutes. Video should not have been shown in the club before unless major edits done (and I mean major).
Entries Due by the 6th November
Films viewed on the 4th December
We have two great external judges lined up! More on that later.
The videos can be any genre you like: animation, local history, inside Donald Trump’s brain, Global Warming, Horror, Sci-Fi, Rom-Com, The Return of Biggles, Random words in the dictionary, museums, holiday movies, who-done-it movies, crisp packet collections, AI videos, drone movies – just anything really that you can possibly think of…
Nothing is off limits unless it gets kicked into touch by the “committee” 
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So get your thinking caps on and blow us out of our seats!
Useful competition information can be found here (includes rules and technical info about preferred formats, etc.)