CovCreative Film Festival
CovCreative Film Festival
Welcome to this year’s CovCreative Film Festival. This year, with the help of Warwick University and UNESCO, we’re going even bigger than ever before, with a series of new categories open to students from ALL Coventry schools.
This year’s CovCreative Film Festival is partnered with Warwick Uni and UNESCO.
New Categories:
- Best Documentary – Primary
- Best Documentary – Secondary
- Best Documentary – Undergraduate
- Best ex-student Fictional Short – Max 10 mins, anything over 5 may not be played in full
- Technical awards
- Best Director
- Best Performance
- Best Screenplay
- Best Production Design
- Best Cinematography
- Best Editing / SFX
- Best Sound Design
Rules:
All films:
- No copyrighted material may be used (royalty free and Creative Commons licensed are fine as long as they are credited)
- Fiction Films for Best Ex-Student and ALL Documentaries may be completed in groups of five maximum
Documentary films:
- Must be submitted by 31st May
- May be on any subject related to the theme of the environment or sustainablity
- Must be shot on a mobile device
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- Check out our great documentary-making resources from Into Film to help your project
- Best Documentary – Primary category is open to students of any age in Primary schools, including non-mainstream schools
- Best Documentary – Primary category films should be between 2-5 mins maximum
- Best Documentary – Secondary category is open to students of any age in Secondary schools, including non-mainstream schools
- Best Documentary – Secondary category films should be between 3-5 mins maximum
- Best Documentary – Undergraduate category is open to students of any age studying at university
- Best Documentary – Undergraduate category films should be between 3-10 mins maximum
Technical awards:
- Technical awards cannot be entered directly: The short-list will be selected from entries across all other categories
Prizes:
Primary and Secondary winners will be selected for a filmmaking day at Screenology in Bristol as well as a tour of Bristol UNESCO City of Film
If you need resources to help you make documentaries, please see these fantastic resources from Into Film:
For further details please email m.gunn@finhampark.co.uk