Student Film Festivals United Kingdom

Deadline: July
Categories: Student, professional, independent, promotional, TV series, films for children, web animation, machinima
Requirements: 35mm, Beta SP (PAL), DVD, DV-Cam, DigiBeta, MiniDV. Completed within one year to be eligible for the competition
Awards: Best Student, professional, independent, promotional, TV series, films for children, web animation, machinima, audience award, special Jury Prize, Grand Prix
Fees: None
Administrative address: Bradford Animation Festival, National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, BD1 1NQ, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1274 203364
Fax: +44 (0)1274 203 387
Email address: deb.singleton@nationalmediamuseum.org.uk
Director: Deb Singleton
Website: http://www.baf.org.uk

Location: London
Deadline: January 9 2012

Categories: Student Shorts

Requirements: Films must be made whilst filmmaker was a member of an educational institution

Awards: Grand Jury Award; previous winners have received a work placement with Leopard Films

Fees: None

Administrative address: Screentest, London South Bank University, 103 Borough Road, London, SE1 0AA

Tel: +44 (0)7743 894980

Email address: holly.wells@screentestfest.org.uk  and chris.nunn@screentestfest.org.uk

Coordinators: Holly Wells and Chris Nunn

Website: http://www.screentestfest.org.uk

Deadline: January 
Categories: Student Shorts 
Requirements: Under 20 mins, made by a student and after January 2009 
Awards: Ten Awards 
Fees: £7 Early Bird submission, £10 late submissions 
Administrative address: Eleanor Rofe, Wolfson College, Barton Road, Cambridge, CB3 9BB 
Email address: mail@watersprite.org 
Chairperson: Eleanor Rofe & Alice Allen 
Website: http://www.watersprite.org

Deadline: May
Categories: Shorts
Requirements: Less than 8 min, participants must be students, based in the UK and over 16. The short should incorporate the theme ‘Railways’. It should be a ‘Universal’ classification (according to the British Board of Bilm Classification guidelines). All genres and formats accepted.
Awards:
Fees: Two bursaries of £2000
Administrative address: City of London Festival, Fitz Eylwin House, 25 Holborn Viaduct, London EC1A 2BP
Tel: 0207 583 3583
Fax: 0207 353 0455
Email address: admin@colf.org
Events Manager: Janet Marshall
Website: http://www.colf.org

Deadline: Contact festival for details
Categories: Shorts; student films; independent films; animation
Requirements: Films must be made by students or recent graduates; they must be submitted on DVD in a 16:9 format.
Awards:
Fees: None
Administrative address: 35a Miranda Road, London, N19 3RA, England
Email address: info@filmlabfestival.co.uk
Director: Grace Barrett
Director: Lucy Rogers
Submissions address: 35a Miranda Road, London, N19 3RA, England
Website: http://www.filmlabfestival.co.uk

Deadline: Contact festival for details
Categories: Animation, Art-house, Asian, Black, Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Experimental, Gay and Lesbian, Historical, Horror, Independent, Jewish, Music Video, National, Science Fiction, Short, Silent, Student, Thriller, Women,
Requirements: Anyone with a short film
Awards:
Fees: None
Administrative address: Future Shorts, 69 – 71 Leonard Street,, London EC2A 4QU,, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7739 6055
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7739 6090
Email address: info@futureshorts.com
Creative Director and Founder: Fabien Riggall
Head of Partnership & Festivals: Birgir Sigfusson
Website: http://www.futureshorts.com

Deadline: Contact festival for details
Categories: Shorts from international art colleges and film schools
Requirements: Viewing: MiniDV, VHS (Pal) Screening: MiniDV. Films may be up to 10 minutes long and not older than than one year, director must be a student
Awards: Audience and Jury Award London, Audience and Jury Award Budapest, Jury Award Berlin “THE EYE”
Fees: None
Administrative address: EMERGEANDSEE, Postfach 029930, 10132 Berlin, Germany,
Email address: nathalie@emergeandsee.org
Head of EMERGEANDSEE London: Nathalie Siegel
Website: http://www.emergeandsee.org

Deadline: July
Categories: See festival website for more details
Requirements: Student and recent graduate work, made in the UK
Awards: Audience Award, Grand Jury Award, Best of the North
Fees: None
Administrative address: exposures: new talent in moving image, Cornerhouse, 70 Oxford Street, Manchester M1 5NH, UK
Tel: +44 (0)16 1228 7621
Fax: +44 (0)16 1200 1504
Email address: exposures@cornerhouse.org
Contact: Isabelle Croissant
Website: http://www.exposuresfestival.co.uk

Deadline: May
Categories: Shorts, Documentaries, Animations, Student, Local, International
Requirements: Films must be made after Jan 1st 2007 (for 2010 festival).
Awards: Best of Category
Fees: See festival website
Administrative address: See festival website
Email address: info@norwichfilmfestival.co.uk
Director: Kellen Playford
Website: http://www.norwichfilmfestival.co.uk

Deadline: December

Categories: Best Short Animation; Best Professional Animation; Best Fine Art/Experimental Animation; Best Student Animation; Best Short Film – Drama; Best Short Film – Documentary; Best Short Film – Student; Best ‘Made in the Midlands’ – film or animation

Requirements: DVD format. Must have been finished on 1st January 2010 or later. Over 16s only.

Awards: Best Short Animation; Best Professional Animation; Best Fine Art/Experimental Animation; Best Student Animation; Best Short Film – Drama; Best Short Film – Documentary; Best Short Film – Student; Best ‘Made in the Midlands’ – film or animation

Fees: None

Stoke Your Fires 2012: The Mitchell Arts Centre, Broad Street, City Centre, Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 4HG, England

Tel: +44 (0)1782 409307

Email address: info@stokeyourfires.co.uk

Festival Manager: Marc Wootton

Website: http://www.stokeyourfires.co.uk