To celebrate their first birthday, FourDocs is working with Channel 4 to find the best short documentaries that have been submitted to the site this year.

A team of experts from Channel 4, FourDocs and the documentary world will select two winners and two runners up from the many entries that have been uploaded o­n to FourDocs, the UK’s first broadband documentary channel.

The directors of all four shorts will see their film broadcast o­n Channel 4 in the 3 Minute Wonder slot in November. They will receive £600 prize money and an Executive Producer to help them re-edit their documentary for 3 Minute Wonder. The two winners will also be invited to join Channel 4 at Newcomer’s Day at the celebrated Sheffield International Documentary Festival.

The Sheffield International Documentary Festival is o­ne of the most prestigious events of its kind in the UK and since the festival’s inception, Channel 4 has always been at its centre. Now is your chance to join Channel 4 as a guest delegate o­n Newcomer’s Day at the festival. All you have to do is make a four-minute documentary and upload it to FourDocs via www.channel4.com/fourdocs.

Your documentary should be between 3 and 5 minutes. Although it will need to be edited down to 3 minutes for potential broadcast, don't let this limit your creativity. Even if you don't win the competition, you'll still get your doc o­nto FourDocs,  Channel Four’s prizewinning broadband documentary community.

The deadline for submissions is Friday 1 September 2006. For more info, click here