Student Film Festivals

This is a list of festivals of likely interest to students. There are hundreds of other festivals not listed here that may be perfect for your video. To find them, consult the on-line festival databases at the bottom of the page.

Student-Only Festivals

• Please check us out at www.wisff.com.
• We offer $10,000 US prizes and expense paid trips to Sundance Film Festival. We honor emerging film and documentary students whose work reflects the human condition with creativity and respect.  Past winners have won Academy Awards, Peabody, Sundance etc.
• We have been around over 15 years, formerly known as the Angelus Student Film Festival.  

• Continuing Online -- Reelshow International
• Deadline 13 May -- Toronto Youth Shorts Film Festival
   
   
  
• Deadline 1 July -- Young Cuts Film Festival (Montreal) 
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• Deadline 2 November -- Images Festival student category (Toronto)
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• Deadline 31 January -- Living Skies Student Film Festival (Regina)
• Deadline 31 January -- Yorkton Film Festival (student category)
• Deadline 4 February -- Emerge Media Awards (Toronto)
   

Other Shorts Festivals

• Continuing Online -- Mutinee
• Continuing Online -- ShortsNonStop
• Continuing Online -- Filmaka.com
• Continuing Monthly -- WildSound Film Festival (Toronto)
• Deadline 11 May -- Antimatter Film Festival (Victoria)
• Deadline 17 May -- Ottawa International Animation Festival
   
  
• Deadline 31 May -- enRoute Film Festival (Air Canada)
   
  
• Deadline 13 June -- Regent Park Film Festival (Toronto)
• Deadline 15 May -- Rhode Island International Film Festival
   
  
• Deadline 28 June -- Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM)
• Deadline 15 July -- Toronto Urban Film Festival (1-minute films, Toronto Transit Commission)
   
  
• Deadline 31 July -- Cabbagetown Short Film & Video Festival (Toronto)
• Deadline 14 February -- NORTHWEST FEST (Edmonton)
• Deadline 31 July -- Breast Fest Film Festival (Toronto)
• Deadline 30 September -- Reelout (Kingston)
   
  
• Deadline 18 March -- NSI Online Short Film Festival
   
  
• Deadline 11 November -- Dawson City International Short Film Festival
   
  
• Deadline 28 February -- Wasaga Beach Short Film Festival (Ontario)
• Deadline 3 December -- Rochester International Film Festival
• Deadline 5 December -- Reel World Film Festival (Toronto)
   
  
• Deadline 31 January -- Kingston Canadian Film Festival -- Local Shorts

Festival Databases

• Festivals at DocumentaryFilms.net.
• FilmFestivals.com
• Telefilm Canada Festivals Database

Please let us know about changes in the sites listed here, or about other sites you think we should include on the list.