Willingdon Student Film Festival 2025
Hey kids! Do you like to make movies? Then you should submit your creations to the second edition of Willingdon Student Film Festival and show off your creativity and talents! Nominated movies will be screened during the Film Festival night on May, 1 2025 (tbc) at the gym of senior campus to our Willingdon community.
Did we mention there is a chance of winning prizes in each category?
About the Festival
The Willingdon Student Film Festival, an initiative of Wilingdon parents, supported by Willingdon Home & School Association, aims to celebrate the artistic and creative talents of our students by encouraging them to create short films on various subjects, themes, or issues. The project is open to all students, allowing them to explore their interests, develop technical skills, and gain a deeper understanding of the art of film-making.
We expect the submissions to be about 1 minute to 5 minutes long.
About the Festival
The Willingdon Student Film Festival, an initiative of Wilingdon parents, supported by Willingdon Home & School Association, aims to celebrate the artistic and creative talents of our students by encouraging them to create short films on various subjects, themes, or issues. The project is open to all students, allowing them to explore their interests, develop technical skills, and gain a deeper understanding of the art of film-making.
We expect the submissions to be about 1 minute to 5 minutes long.
How it works?
Respect the Rules
Choose a Category
We are looking for tasteful, creative, positive, thoughtful content, and appropriate for G audience.
We aim to broadly feature the talents and creations of Willingdon students. We strongly encourage everyone, with or without experience, to submit their unique creations that express their interest and personalities. As the Film Festival Night is time restricted, we do reserve the right to show only movies nominated by the judges for each category, edit for time, and/or change the categories based on the number of submissions received.
- Submissions can be as individuals or teams
- Movie about 1 and max 5minutes long
- Your movie does not have to be a new project, you are welcome to submit a project you created before (maybe during the pandemic?), but it has to be your own work.
Contributions that do not respect the following guidelines will not be considered:
- No copyrighted work without the permission of the copyright owner (Fair use is considered)
- No false or defamatory statements about any person or any third party
- No profanity, nudity, depictions of violence, threatening language, bullying, inappropriate, indecent, harmful, discriminatory, or obscene content
- No depiction of an act which is dangerous or suggests any person to undertake a dangerous activities
- Bathroom humour is discouraged
1. Short Narrative Film
This category can include short fictional stories or dramas created by students. It allows them to showcase their storytelling abilities and creativity.
2. Animation & Puppets
This category is ideal for students with an interest in animation, whether it’s traditional animation, stop-motion, or computer-generated animation. This category could also include films using puppets.
3. Experimental/Art Film
In this category, students have the freedom to experiment with abstract concepts, different film-making techniques, visual styles, and storytelling methods. This category can lead to some truly innovative and artistic films.
4. Comedy
Comedy is always a crowd-pleaser! This catergory is for students who want to create humorous short films that entertain and make the audience laugh.
5. Sci-Fi/Fantasy
This category encourages students to let their imaginations run wild by creating films set in futuristic worlds or fantastical realms.
6. Nature & Environment
In this category students promote awareness of environmental issues by creating films about the natural world, conservation, or the impact of human activities on the environment.
7. Music Video
This category allows students to combine their love for music and film-making by creating music videos for their favourite songs or original compositions.
8. Video Montage
This category is for short films that are created by editing together a series of smaller video clips from various sources, often to humorous effect.
9. School Life
This category is for films that capture the daily life and experiences of students in the school community.
10. Commercials
In this category students are invited to create commercials or commercial parodies designed to appeal specifically to children and their families. This category might include commercials for toys, educational products, family-friendly movie trailers, activities or hand-made products. The focus is on creative content that captures the imagination, promotes positive messages, and enhances the festival experience for its young audience. The commercials can be short ones – under 60sec.
Deadline to submit
MONDAY, March 31, 2025, 8pm
Technical requirements
Please submit your movie in 1080p format (resolution of 1920×1080). We can handle most common video formats such as .mp4, .mov, .avi, .mkv. Please name your file according to this template (preserving the correct extension): FirstName_LastName_Grade#.??? (ex. Agnes_Belhumer_Grade4.mp4).
How it works?
Respect the Rules
We are looking for tasteful, creative, positive, thoughtful content, and appropriate for G audience.
We aim to broadly feature the talents and creations of Willingdon students. We strongely encourage everyone, with or without experience, to submit their unique creations that express their interest and personalities. As the Film Festival Night is time restricted, we do reserve the right to show only movies nominated by the judges for each category, edit for time, and/or change the categories based on the number of submissions received.
- Submissions can be as individuals or teams
- Movie between 1 and max 5minutes long
- Your movie does not have to be a new project, you are welcome to submit a project you created before (maybe during the pandemic?), but it has to be your own work.
Contributions that do not respect the following guidelines will not be considered:
- No copyrighted work without the permission of the copyright owner
- (Fair use is considered)
- No false or defamatory statements about any person or any third party
- No profanity, nudity, depictions of violence, threatening language, bullying, inappropriate, indecent, harmful, discriminatory, or obscene content
- No depiction of an act which is dangerous or suggests any person to undertake a dangerous activities
- Bathroom humour is discouraged
Choose a Category
1. Short Narrative Film
This category can include short fictional stories or dramas created by students. It allows them to showcase their storytelling abilities and creativity.
2. Animation & Puppets
This category is ideal for students with an interest in animation, whether it’s traditional animation, stop-motion, or computer-generated animation. This category could also include films using puppets.
3. Experimental/Art Film
In this category, students have the freedom to experiment with abstract concepts, different film-making techniques, visual styles, and storytelling methods. This category can lead to some truly innovative and artistic films.
4. Comedy
Comedy is always a crowd-pleaser! This catergory is for students who want to create humorous short films that entertain and make the audience laugh.
5. Sci-Fi/Fantasy
This category encourages students to let their imaginations run wild by creating films set in futuristic worlds or fantastical realms.
6. Nature & Environment
In this category students promote awareness of environmental issues by creating films about the natural world, conservation, or the impact of human activities on the environment.
7. Music Video
This category allows students to combine their love for music and film-making by creating music videos for their favourite songs or original compositions.
8. Video Montage
This category is for short films that are created by editing together a series of smaller video clips from various sources, often to humorous effect.
9. School Life
This category is for films that capture the daily life and experiences of students in the school community.
10. Commercials
In this category students are invited to create commercials or commercial parodies designed to appeal specifically to children and their families. This category might include commercials for toys, educational products, family-friendly movie trailers, activities or hand-made products. The focus is on creative content that captures the imagination, promotes positive messages, and enhances the festival experience for its young audience.
Deadline to submit
MONDAY, March 31, 2025, 8pm
Helpful resources
Willingdon Home and School
5870 Rue de Terrebonne
Montréal, QC H4A 1B5