Festivals, awards, grants and residencies, with the deadline that actually applies. Every listing links to the organiser's own page and carries the date we last checked it. Deadlines move, so confirm before you pay.

Nine awards and festivals with a music video category, from free to $85 a category. The cheapest serious entry is the one almost nobody entering music videos knows about.
Fees read on the organisers' own sites
Every open deadline we have verified, in order, from SXSW on 15 September to the Berlin Music Video Awards early bird in November and the Berlinale shorts cut-off.
Fourteen dated deadlines
Submission fees add up faster than anything else in a small budget. These seven take applications without charging, and two of them hand out five figures.
Seven free routesA short list of what closes in the next three weeks, sent when there is something worth sending. No digest padding.