Awards Opportunity: SOCAN Foundation Awards for Emerging Screen Composers
Two prizes will be offered in each of four categories. Deadline: June 1st, 2023
Deadline: June 1, 2023
This annual competition is designed to recognize Canadian composers who are 30 years of age and under, for original musical themes or scores created exclusively for audio-visual support (TV, film, Internet, etc.).
Criteria
Two prizes will be offered in each of four categories: 1st prize — $3,000; 2nd prize — $2,250.
The Grand Prize of $5,000 for the best overall work may also be awarded.
Entries submitted will be examined by a jury of prominent composers selected by the SOCAN Foundation. Excellence will be an overriding factor in adjudication.
The jury may, but need not, award all prizes in each category. The jury reserves the right, where deemed beneficial to the entry, to move an entry to another category. The jury’s decisions are final.
Categories
Best Original Theme (opening or closing)
Best Original Score — Fiction
Best Original Score — Animated
Best Original Score — Non-Fiction
Eligibility
The competition is open to composers who are 30 years of age or under on the application deadline.
Candidates must be Canadians and SOCAN members or Canadians who are not members of any performing rights organization.
Entries that were award winners in previous SOCAN Foundation Awards are not eligible.
SOCAN and SOCAN Foundation board members and employees are not eligible.
All music must have been created exclusively for an original audio-visual production (TV, film, Internet, etc.).
Commercials (advertisements) are not eligible.
All music must be wholly original and created by one composer, or, in the case of Best Original Theme, by no more than one composer and one lyricist. Arrangements are not eligible.
Entry may be for any instrument(s) and may feature performers other than the composer.
More details and submission eligibility at: https://www.socanfoundation.ca/awards/
