Submit Your Film for Free to Watersprite Film Festival 2024 (Open to All Students)

Watersprite Film Festival invites filmmakers from around the globe to submit their films for free. Over its fourteen editions, Watersprite has showcased submissions from over 100 countries, and entry remains completely free. All submitted films are automatically considered for a broad range of awards.

Submission Details

Genres:

• Fiction: Fiction films often use a narrative to convey a story. They may be a drama or a comedy, or any other narrative subgenre. They involve real people and animals, rather than animated ones.
• Documentary: Documentaries are non-fiction films which concern real-life events, experiences and issues. They often are told in a journalistic style and express opinions or advance views on a particular subject.
• Animation: Animated films involve a narrative in which more than 75% of the running time involves character and/or abstract animation. It may involve, although is by no means limited to, cel animation, stop motion, puppetry or CGI. Photorealistic animation is also considered as animation
• Experimental: Experimental films are films that break away from traditional cinematic boundaries and conventions. They employ unusual or groundbreaking aesthetic and technical elements and generally do not follow predictable narrative form. They allow for ambiguity and complexity of thought and use abstraction or lyricism in their execution. These films often expand the language of cinema.

Each film can only be submitted to one genre category. To submit your film, click here.

Deadline for submission: 9th September 2024, 23:59 GMT

Student Status Verification:

• To qualify, at least two of the following crew members must have been students during the film’s production: Director, Producer, and Writer.
• For technical awards, the student responsible for that category must have been a student at the time of production.
• Proof of student status must be submitted shortly after the film submission on FilmFreeway.

Film Requirements:

• Length: Films must be under 23 minutes.
• Language: Films should be in English or include English subtitles.

Watersprite Mentorship Programme:

• Filmmakers will have the opportunity to apply for the Watersprite Mentorship Programme before the submission deadline. After submitting your film, a form will be provided if you wish to apply.

Awards:

• Films are automatically considered for all relevant awards.
• Technical awards require the student to be responsible for the specific technical category.
• The performance award winner does not need to be a student but must be an amateur.

Watersprite will select up to four nominees for each award. Don’t miss this opportunity to showcase your work and be part of a global film community!

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