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.

The CovCreative Film Festival will be on Friday 12th July from 6.30 pm at Warwick Arts Centre, Cinema Screen 1. The event is a celebration of the great film-making work of students in Coventry, and will include several films already nominated for national awards. 

Bar and restaurant facilities are available for refreshments at Warwick Arts Centre.

PLEASE NOTE: A TICKET NEEDS TO BE PURCHASED FOR AWARD NOMINEES TOO. 

If you have a ParentPay account at Finham Park, please pay for your tickets HERE.

If you are purchasing tickets from outside the school, please follow this link.

Tickets cost £10. 

For further details email m.gunn@finhampark.co.uk

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

• • 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:

Primary School resource

Secondary School resource

For further details please email m.gunn@finhampark.co.uk

• 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