Imperial War Museum Student Film Festival and Competition

The History Channel has teamed up with Imperial War Museum to make this year’s Student Film Festival one that you will never forget.

For eight years now the Imperial War Museum has run a Student Film Festival in order to offer students who have made films and videos that relate to the Imperial War Museum, to have their work screened publicly in the cinema. Each title screened in the Festival is then also eligible to be entered into the competition. Now in its eighth year, the competition is open to amateur filmmakers for the first time. Each title accepted for the festival will be showcased in the museum’s prestigious 200-seat cinema in London at least twice and the winner of the Best Documentary category stands a chance of having their work aired on the History Channel.

Competition categories

• Annie Dodds Award for the Best Documentary
• Best Imaginative Response to the Subject of War
• Best Amateur entry to the two main categories
• Winner of the Audience Poll

Please click here to download the screening programme for the Student Film Festival.

The makers of all shorts accepted for the festival will be offered reduced admission to the Student Documentary Master Class, held on the 18th November.

Click here for more information about the Student Documentary Master Class and the event programme.

In addition, everyone who enters will be invited to attend the prize giving ceremony in Spring 2009.

Prizes

• Trophies and cash prizes will be given to the winning filmmakers in each category
• The History Channel will provide the winner of the Best Documentary category with six hours of full broadcast standard online editing and six hours of audio dubbing
• There is the possibility for the winning titles to be broadcast on The History Channel.
• There is even the potential for an internship with a leading production company and/or broadcaster.

Entry criteria

• Open to any student based in the UK or overseas, whose film, video or DVD incorporates archive film from the museum's collection or is made in response to the museum's collections and exhibitions or directly relates to its terms of reference. 
• Now also open to amateur filmmakers.
• Films must be a maximum running time of 35 minutes.
• Closing date for entries is Friday 31 October 2008