We'll make your film a DCP.
One filmmaker gets the thing between a finished film and a cinema screen: a DCI-compliant Digital Cinema Package, made from their master and validated before it ships.
JPEG 2000/MXF with the CPL, PKL and ASSETMAP a cinema server expects, validated against the DCI spec, and held in a Vault for twelve months — so you send a festival a link instead of a hard drive.
It's required. We check the winner's by hand before the prize is confirmed, so stay following until the draw.
Step 2 — fill in the form below. The winner is drawn at random from everyone who does both.
- Entries close7 October 202623:59 UTC. Late entries aren't read.
- Winner announced14 October 2026By email to everyone who entered.
- Claim by13 December 202660 days to send us a master.
How this works
What you win
One winner. We convert your finished film to a DCI-compliant DCP — JPEG 2000 image, MXF wrapping, CPL, PKL and ASSETMAP — validate the result against the DCI spec, and give you a year of Vault storage to hold and share it. Unencrypted by default; if a venue needs an encrypted DCP with KDMs, we'll cut those too.
How to enter
- Follow @filmvault.pro on Instagram.
- Fill in the form above, including the Instagram handle you follow from.
- Stay following until the draw. We check the winner's follow before confirming the prize, and draw again if it isn't there.
Who can enter
- Anyone with a finished film and the rights to have it converted.
- One entry per person. Entering again with the same email address replaces your previous entry rather than adding a second one — so you can correct a typo without changing your odds.
- Any length, any genre, any country. A 6-minute short and a 110-minute feature have exactly the same chance.
How the winner is chosen
At random. Every valid entry goes into one pool and one is drawn — by the software, not by us picking a favourite. Nothing you write on the form changes your odds: the title, type, running time and synopsis are there so we know what we're converting if you win, not to rank you against anyone else.
A valid entry is one that follows the account and has a reachable email. We can't check follows automatically — Instagram gives us no way to — so we check the drawn winner's by hand against the handle on their entry. If they aren't following, or we can't reach them, we draw again.
When and how it's announced
Entries close at 23:59 UTC on 7 October 2026. The draw happens on 14 October 2026: we email everyone who entered — winner or not, so nobody is left refreshing a page — post it on Instagram, and contact the winner directly to arrange the master.
Claiming the prize
The winner has 60 days from the announcement — until 13 December 2026 — to get us a master we can work from. After that the offer expires and we may pick another entry. If you need longer, tell us before the deadline rather than after it; we'd rather move a date than void a prize.
We'll take almost anything as a source: ProRes, DNxHD, a high-bitrate H.264, DCP-ready image sequences. If your master turns out to be unusable we'll tell you what we need instead — the 60 days are there for exactly that.
The small print
- The prize is the conversion, the validation and twelve months of Vault storage. It doesn't include shipping physical media, festival fees, or work on the film itself (no grading, conform or re-cut).
- Not transferable and not exchangeable for cash. If the winner can't claim it, we pick another entry.
- You keep every right in your film. Entering doesn't give us a licence to it. We'd like to name the winning film when we announce the result, and we'll ask you first.
- Your details are used to run the giveaway and nothing else unless you opted in above. Ask us to delete your entry at any time — hello@filmvault.pro.
The account to follow
This promotion is not sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Instagram. You're providing your information to FilmVault, not to Instagram.
Questions
Email hello@filmvault.pro. If you're not sure what a DCP even is, we wrote the explanation.