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Filmmaker Laura Egan's entry into Vision Research and AbelCine's "Miro High-Speed Inspiration Challenge" used the camera to tell the story of the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy.

Says Egan of the experience, "The Miro was the best tool to capture these moments because it’s discreet and non-invasive. It made it possible to give viewers a rare glimpse into the quiet, private self as it is revealed in breathtaking high speed and truly capture elemental notes on the human spirit."

Watch her film, "Anchor Me Here," -- one of the five finalists of the challenge -- below and read more about her shoot here.

Last summer, AbelCine and Vision Research announced a unique contest asking filmmakers to submit ideas for unique slow-motion films that could be made with the new Phantom Miro. The top five ideas got the resources to make their films, and the winner -- announced just last week -- received a brand new Phantom Miro package.

The Focus Forward Filmmaker Competition is seeking three-minute non-fiction films centering around the theme of invention and innovation. There are over $200,000 in prizes with the grand prize winner receiving a whopping $100,000. The submission deadline has been extended to October 7th and the winner will be announced at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.

Read all the rules here.

AbelCine and Vision Research have announced the start of the “Miro High-Speed Inspiration Challenge.” This contest was created so that image-makers from a broad range of disciplines would have the opportunity to work with the Phantom Miro M320S, a camera capable of super-slow motion cinematography.

Lars von Trier's latest project, called Gesamt, is seeking video or audio user submissions of up to 5 minutes in length. The pieces must take their inspiration from at least one of the following: the last chapter of James Joyce’s Ulysses; Act 3 of August Strindberg’s play The Father; Paul Gauguin’s painting “Where Do We Come From? What Are We?

Poptent and DV Expo invite you to create a promotional video for DV Expo for the chance to win $1000. The 2-3 minute video should convey the fun and educational spirit of the yearly event. Why do you attend? What do you get out of it? If you’ve never attended, your point-of-view will be from a first time attendee. Which exhibitors did you visit? What did you learn? Whichever approach you take, the video should promote the expo to potential attendees and exhibitors.

Stillmotion is running a filmmaking challenge called Big Shorts with over $15,000 in prizes.

Have a great idea for a mind-blowing high speed video? Want to get your hands on the Phantom Miro to shoot it?

You're in luck. AbelCine and Vision Research have joined forces to bring you the Miro High-Speed Inspiration Challenge. Submit a treatment, script or storyboard for a 3-6 minute video that best shows off the capabilities of the Phantom Miro. Four finalists will receive training and one week with a Miro M320S package to shoot their video.

Intel is looking for time-lapse and/or slow-motion videos to run in an online ad and is offering $50,000 worth of prizes to the best ones.

Submit your 30-90 second video before the October 23 deadline to be eligible to win prizes which include Dell Ultrabooks, Canon cameras, GoPro cameras and Cyberlink software. Check out the full rules here.

Icelandic band Sigur Ros is extending their Mystery Film Experiment to filmmakers everywhere. The Mystery Film Experiment involved an opn-ended brief to a variety of established filmmakers to create music videos for each of the tracks off their new album, Valtari. Now the band is running a contest that asks other filmmakers to submit a video for any of the tracks as well. The top prize is $5000.

From now and running through Wednesday, April 4, online voting  to choose the top prize winners of Panasonic's ‘Shoot It. Share It’ video contest is open to the public at www.ShootItShareIt.com. All contest submissions were shot with a Panasonic AG-AF100 Large Imager HD Cinema Camcorder.