Students at
film schools in Canada, take heart! The student film festival circuit is alive
and well at home and abroad. If you keep working hard in your film courses.
Montreal, Toronto and the world may one day line up for the privilege to see
the fruits of your labour. Here are some of the film festivals for you to
consider submitting to while still in film school. Toronto International Film
Festival, they may not be. But you have to start somewhere.
The
Montreal Student Film & Video festival is for students of film schools in
Canada. The goal is to discover new talent currently enrolled in film courses.
Montreal also offers another student film festival, the Young Cuts Film
Festival. Unlike the Montreal Student Film & Video Festival, which is only
open to people at film schools in Canada, the Young Cuts Film Festival is open
to students from around the world.
For Toronto
students enrolled in film school, Toronto Youth Shorts Film Festival is a
volunteer-run nonprofit that gives a chance for Toronto’s emerging filmmakers
to showcase their work.
One film
school, Toronto’s Deparment of Film in York University’s Faculty of Fine Arts,
has a yearly juried showcase called CineSeige that is only open to the students
in its own program.
Queen’s
University offers a yearly video-making contest for its own students, asking
them to create a short on the theme of online summer school courses.
Another
film school, Toronto’s cinema studies program at the University of Toronto –
or, more specifically, Hart House, U of T’s “living laboratory of arts, culture
and recreation” – organizes a student showcase that is open to students from
film schools in Canada, but where priority is given to submissions form the
Hart House and U of T community.
Other film
schools in Canada offer student festivals that are open to students from all
over. The University of Regina’s media production and studies department
organizes a festival called Living Skies that is open to students from around
the world, not just from film schools in Canada.
Similarly,
students from around the world, not just from film schools in Canada, are
invited to submit to the Toronto Student Film Festival, which is billed as a
showcase for underground cinema.
Students of
film schools in Canada can also submit to such international film festivals as
the Beijing International Student Short Film and Video Festival or the Angelus
Student Festival.
The world’s
largest film festival, which is held at Brown University in Rhode Island, is
also open to students at film schools in Canada.
So what are
you waiting for? Get out on the festival circuit today! Submit your best work
now.
Contact the Trebas Institute for more
information on their film production programs.
