Women in Adventure Film Competition
The BMC are calling for all adventurers and filmmakers to switch their cameras on and get ready to enter the Women in Adventure Film Competition 2025! We want to see your adventures captured on film and keep the cycle of inspiration rolling.
By entering the competition, you'll not only be in with a chance of winning cash prizes and the opportunity to showcase your film at Kendal Mountain Festival and BMC YouTube, but you'll also spur on fellow females to get outside and maybe try something new.
How to enter
The competition invites entries for short films of up to 10 minutes in length, showcasing the outdoor pursuits of women. Regardless of their expertise in filmmaking or athletic abilities, filmmakers are encouraged to submit their work, featuring those who partake in adventure, with the prospect of winning one of five awards available.
1) DOWNLOAD the Entry Form & Submission Guidelines and read the Judging Guidelines
2) SUBMIT your film via file transfer by midnight (GMT) on Sunday 28th September 2025 to emma@thebmc.co.uk using the subject line “Women in Adventure Film Competition”
3) INCLUDE:
- Film file
- Completed Entry Form
- Promotional images, including a suggested YouTube thumbnail
- Open Captions (engrained permanently into the film) See the captions guidance document by Coldhouse Collective and Find It Film for more information on how to present your captions.
This competition was originally created to shine a light on the under-represented in the adventure film space. Therefore we wish to reaffirm that for the BMC Women in Adventure film competition, we encourage and welcome entries from trans and non-binary adventurers, in the same way as we welcome entries from any person who identifies as female and we will continue to provide a platform for your adventure stories to be told.
2025 Award Categories
This will be the film that impresses the judges the most and hit the judging criteria to the max. It will encompass the true spirit of the competition to tell a compelling narratives about women in adventure.
This category is for films that have been commercially backed and/or produced by a film company.
To qualify for this award (see the Award Eligibility Ticklist in the submission form below), the film will need to meet the some if not all of the following criteria:
- Be commercially commissioned (i.e. paid for branded content)
- Members of the film crew paid financially for their current job roles
- Filmed on cameras other than a phone/Go-Pro/DLSR
This award has been created to encourage films that highlight women and their projects that are promoting the important issues. Whether that be combatting the climate crisis, promoting sustainability, amplifying diversity, or uniting society behind a valuable cause through the outdoor community .
For films of special noteworthiness.
NOTE: This was previously the Climate Action category
This category is new for this year and aims to challenge you to make a short form film which encompasses the spirit of the Woman in Adventure Film Competition.
The film must be:
- 90 seconds long
- Filmed in portrait
- Have captions embedded into it
- Use a soundtrack you own have the rights for (not an embedded song from the instagram/tiktok music library)
Meet the Judges
Rachel Sarah
Rachel is a freelance outdoor filmmaker and photographer based in the UK, specialising in adventure sport and environmental stories. She now works on short films and documentaries about stories with meaning, the kind of stories that do not get told enough in the adventure world. Rachel won the Best Film Award in 2020 in the BMC Women in Adventure Film Competition with her film Uncomfortable
Alexis Tymon
Alexis is an award-winning filmmaker and Director, Producer, Editor. As co-founder of Sourcy Film, she makes films about exceptional people, places or issues; from artists and athletes to documentaries on food waste, focussing on ideas that matter and execute them into cinematic, thoughtful films.
Faye Latham
Faye is a writer, visual poet, and rock climber from North Wales. Her work has been published in a range of literary journals and magazines. Her debut poetry collection, British Mountaineers, was published by Little Peak Press in 2022 and shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature in 2023. Faye is now based in the Lake District and works for Kendal Mountain Festival as Film & Arts Manager.