An Oklahoma Artists Music Video Showcase
Saturday, October 24, 2026 · 2–5 PM
Panels w/ Industry Peeps 12-2 // Winners Circle "Rig Rundown" in the Gallery at 5pm
Circle Cinema, Tulsa
Presented by Noise Town Tulsa
Oklahoma music videos, on a real theater screen, in front of a real audience. Awards go to the band and the director both.
Submissions are $15 and close October 1.
[SUBMIT YOUR VIDEO] [Tickets on sale in October]
Who can enter
Anyone making music videos in (or around) Oklahoma, Oklahoma residing or perfroming preferred. DIY and professional productions both, plus live produced sessions. For year one we're taking anything released in the last three years.
What you can win
We're working with local sponsors, businesses, and makers across the state to build out the most kick-ass prize packages we can. Right now, a quick look at the pool:
$2,000 production package at Noise Town — Grand Prize
Camera gear and camera build-outs
Gimbals and support equipment
Hard drives (the precious ones)
Studio and recording time
Gifted music lessons
Guitars and pedals
Music video production resources
Promotion and playlisting help
We're also putting together service-based awards — think a film crew provided for your next video idea. Those are still developing, and this list gets longer every week. The pool is still growing as sponsors and partners come in. Check back — this list gets longer between now and October.
What it costs
$15 - closes OCT 1st.
Submission fees cover the cost of running the show: paying our judges for their time, and renting the theater. We pay judges because reviewing a full slate of submissions carefully is real work, and unpaid judging is how a festival ends up with a rushed, careless result. And we rent Circle Cinema because a music video showcase should happen in an actual cinema. We are stoked to help bring this idea to fruitirion. We are modeling the film festival world, onto music videos exclusively.
..Basically we're taking the film festival model and pointing it at music videos, which is an idea we would like to see championed BY the local music and film community. We're stoked to be the doing this and to see what it becomes!
Sponsors fund the prizes.
We're not chasing just any ol' sponsor. We want partners where it makes sense both ways, because what a business is really doing here is putting its name behind Oklahoma's creators and showing some faith in them.
If you make something we can put in a winner's hands, great. If you don't, cash is what lets us go buy the hard drive. Either way, we'd rather tell that story with you than about you.
We've got skin in the game too. Entry fees pay the judges and rent the theater, and Noise Town is tossing a $2,000 production package into the pot as our contribution to the prize pool.
Some prizes are items, some are services, some are cash. We're aiming high — gear, studio time, production services, precious hard drives, cash where we can. We're catering the prizes toward the visual creator, because these awards represent the work of the musicians and the crews, editors, and directors who intersect to make the music video medium what it is.
There's more than one way to do this and we're flexible about what it looks like. We can also run donations through a 501(c)(3) — either RAFT or Circle Cinema — if that's a better fit for how your business gives. Here are some options that we hope can be a starting point for any interested group!
"CATEGORY // PRESENTING SPONSOR (2 teirs)"
BEST FRIEND // FOUNDING SPONSOR STATUS
Sponsors also have the option to set up a table at the event. And there's more happening that day than the screening — before the show we'll have panels with select creators and professionals, and afterward a winners' circle "rig rundown" in Circle Cinema's lobby, where the winners get to walk through their process in more detail.
"We wanted to see a room full of people celebrating music videos, like a film festival — so we're gonna do that."
Oklahoma is full of people making music videos, and almost none of them ever play on a real screen in front of a real audience. They go up online, they get some views — a little or a lotta — and that's the end of it. Meanwhile the people who made them, the directors, the shooters, the editors, the colorists, the gaffers, the people who found the location and fed the crew, never get named at all. Same goes for the DIY bedroom setup that turned into something nobody saw coming. We never really get a chance to share the process and tell the stories about the trials and tribulations of the "making" process.
The Oklahoma Noisemakers Picture Show is simply us getting together to celebrate the work it takes to bring something from idea and concept all the way to final export. (Final_FINAL2.1.mp4.....amiright..?) We will show it and watch it and then we get to celebrate all of those who made it. Bring your friends and fam.
We're building out the award categories now. DIY and professional productions are both welcome, and so are live produced sessions. We want to see and celebrate your work.
*For this first year, we're accepting anything released in the last three years. Future years will be limited to the year of production.
