Oska Bright Film Festival

The National Lottery is inviting applications from arts and film projects for its annual awards. The Charities Aid Foundation will draw up a shortlist, and the projects that make it to the finals will appear on a BBC1 show later this year to compete for a £2,000 cash prize. In the past year, more than £165m of Lottery funding has gone to arts and film projects across the UK, and any arts or film project that has received funding in the past 14 years is eligible to apply for the award. Oska Bright Film Festival (pictured), based in Brighton, won the Arts category last year. It is the first film festival in the world to screen films made by people with learning disabilities. The deadline for entries to this year’s awards is 13 March.