Prize Fest

YOU MADE IT, folks. HAPPY FRIDAY! Cheers to the freakin' weekend! 😜

👉🏼 https://www.prizefest.com

📣 COMEDIANS: Get those jokes READY. The portal is OPEN for Comedy Prize submissions, and we are in SERIOUS NEED of some laughs!

Getcho funny butt in there!
👉 https://www.prizefest.com/comedy

📣 ATTENTION, TACO LOVERS!
If your love language is tacos, this event is basically your soulmate. 💕🌮

📍 Join us on April 26 in downtown Shreveport, LA to devour, vote, and crown the Taco Champion! 🏆

Grab alllll the juicy deets: www.prizefest.com/tacowars

Great films are built one frame at a time. Keep pushing—your best work is just around the corner, and this could be you in October! 🎬💡

When you wanna fast-forward to Prize Fest in October… but the remote is just out of reach. 🦖📺😩

We can't wait to PRIZE with you!

VIVA LA PRIZE FEST!


www.prizefest.com

👏🏼 VIVA LA FILM PRIZE JUNIOR!

🤯 This was our first script-requirement year and y’all blew us AWAY! You MORE than rose to the challenge, and we’ve got more schools moving forward than ever!

👏🏼 WAY TO GO!
🎬 VIVA LA FILM PRIZE JUNIOR!

www.filmprizejr.com

👀 DIDJA KNOW...We care a LOT about mentorship, and we prioritize it at EVERY level of Prize!

If you're second-guessing throwing your hat in the ring, DO IT. You won't be sorry you made the jump, and we can't wait to get you connected!

www.prizefest.com

🌟 FILM. MUSIC. FOOD. COMEDY. We've got it all! Y'all go on ahead and ask off from work 🤣 because this year is slated to be another AMAZING Prize experience.

TO ENTER: Visit the site and get registered!
TO ATTEND: Check out the website and make your plans!

www.prizefest.com

🚨 CALLING ALL COSMETOLOGISTS, HAIRSTYLISTS, AND MAKEUP ARTISTS--You do NOT wanna miss this *FREE* Film Production Hair & Makeup Workshop!

👉 www.prizefest.com/workshop
✨ Deadline to Register is Friday, March 14

Here’s what you’ll learn:
✨ Film Set Etiquette and Workflow
✨ Creative Collaboration with Filmmakers
✨ Film Techniques for Hair and Makeup
✨ Character Design and Transformation
✨ Continuity and Documentation
✨ Hygiene and Safety Standards
✨ Hands On: Hair and Makeup with Real Actors, Lights, and Cameras!

🚨 Only 25 spots available… Act fast!

📣 Get ready to FEAST at Louisiana Food Prize!

You can select the next great chef at the Society of the Golden Fork, where you'll experience some of the BEST and most DELICIOUS meals around town. You don't wanna miss it!

👉 Head to our website for alllll the deets AND to get notified when tickets go on sale.

www.prizefest.com/food

🌮 Y'alls mouths watering yet?! 😏 We're getting PUMPED about all the Taco Wars details that are brewing—but for now y'all make sure and SAVE THE DANG DATE.

April 26th from 11am-8pm in downtown Shreveport, ya don't wanna miss it!

https://www.prizefest.com/tacowars

💡 WHAT is Startup Prize?

🤯 Startup Prize is the place where BIG IDEAS meet BIG OPPORTUNITY.

It’s an unbelievable place where early-stage health startups connect with successful founders and mentors, creating opportunities for growth, learning resources, and funding. We’re not your run-of-the-mill pitch competition, though! We value collaboration to our very core, and we’re here to see you succeed, even if you don’t win!

If you have a game-changing idea and the drive to win, this is your opportunity to prove it and accelerate your success! Let’s goooooo! 🚀

💡LEARN MORE at https://startupprize.com

Startup Prize: Focus on Health founders are up to some INSANELY cool stuff!

✨✨FOUNDER SPOTLIGHT✨✨

Join us as we check in with Angel Enriquez, Ph.D., founder & CEO of Emboa Medical, and Startup Prize 2024's FDA Track Grand Prize Winner. Learn about Angel's transition from life in the lab to full-time founder and how you can help Emboa Medical reach their next milestones!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUCSvZck1u4&list=PL2l9rsCqsW-0pQ3FCslZ-6HguoJWz3Jw0&index=22

🚨 Startup Prize: Focus on Health registration is OFFICIALLY OPEN! Y'all get on it!

How Startup Prize changed the pitch contest forever Startup Prize: Focus on Health connects entrepreneurs with mentors and investors that can help grow their health-related business from early stage status int...

🗞️ PRIZE in the NEWS 🗞️

We're SO proud to report that Shreveport and Startup Prize are helping to lead the charge in supporting innovation and entrepreneurship across the state.

They will be part of Louisiana Economic Development's new LA.IO initiative, designed to position Louisiana as a leader in high-growth, technology-enabled startup companies.

Talk about HUGE. We can't wait to see this partnership flourish.

👉 Read the article here!
https://www.shreveportbossieradvocate.com/business/louisiana-high-tech-startup-funding-shreveport/article_c98e3d66-e4d3-11ef-990a-536522b01ced.html

💡 https://startupprize.com

Still looking back at our Golden Lens snaps and loving the collaboration, education, and connection that happens at allllll the Prize events.

It's a whole vibe and we're HERE FOR IT!

www.prizefest.com

🎉 WE LOVE A SUCCESS STORY. Check out this great interview with Chef Melvin (Food Prize Grand Prize Winner) who overcame some BIG doubt and adversity to get to where he is.

Y'all know what to do...VIVA LA CHEF MELVIN! 👏

https://shreveportbossierjournal.com/2025/02/04/whats-your-story-chef-melvin-nelson/

👉🏼 https://www.prizefest.com

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Startup Prize is out there doing amazing work already! VIVA LA STARTUP!