Filmmaking Competition for Students from Watersprite Film Festival

The Watersprite Film Festival invites all creative filmmakers all over the world to participate with their films and compete within the festival. Watersprite is the UK’s largest international student film festival, and the second largest in the world. With submissions from over 105 countries, Watersprite seeks to provide a creative, vibrant, and inclusive space for the filmmakers of the next generation.

Festival Categories:-

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Experimental
• Experimental films are films that break away from cinematic conventions and/or explore non-narrative forms of cinema. 
• The film may present unusual or unconventional forms of storytelling.

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• All filmmakers nominated for a Watersprite award are offered a free travel and accommodation bursary to fly to Cambridge and experience all that the festival has to offer.
• The festival will have a diverse offering of industry events, panel discussions, Q&A's, workshops, and screenings, all of which are completely free of charge.
• Film of the year award: This is awarded to one of the three Genre Award winners.
• Social impact award: This is awarded to a film with a clear humanitarian subject matter, which can range from the local to the global and from the social to the environmental. The film should critically engage audiences, raise awareness of an issue and allow viewers to reflect on the importance and social impact of the topic that is presented, serving either as a call for change or a way of highlighting the details of a current problem. 
• The film can be of any genre. 
• The 2020 prize consisted of a meeting with world-leading Harry Potter director David Yates.

• All films must have a total running time of 23 minutes or less.
• All films must either be in English, dubbed in English or subtitled in English.
• All films must have completed production no earlier than January 2020.
• The festival will accept a maximum of two films per entrant per year.
• Films may only be submitted to Watersprite once. The festival will not consider films which have been amended from previous submissions.
• All entrants must be at least 16 years of age at the time of the festival. Under 18s will need parental permission to attend.
• For a film to be eligible for consideration, at least two out of the following three must have been students during film production: Director, Producer, Writer.
• In order for a film to be eligible for a Watersprite technical award, the person responsible for that particular technical aspect of the film must have been a student during film production.
• Watersprite defines 'student' as those who are in full or part-time education at any age or those who graduated no more than one year ago. Proof of student enrolment will be required at the submissions stage.
• The exception to this rule is ‘Best Performance’, for which the actor must be an amateur in a student-directed film, and must not have an agent.

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