THE COLLEGE OF THE BAHAMAS
SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2012

CALL FOR FILMS

The College of The Bahamas and the Journalism and Communication department proudly announce the Second Annual Short Film Festival.

Whether you're holding a 16mm camera or using your iPhone's Super8 app, you are making history. Such digital-storytelling helps build community. It gives us new ideas about ourselves, helps us feel unique, and shows us what we have in common. The College and its Journalism and Communication Department invite you to join us in celebrating this community-building and the culture of student filmmaking.

The 2012 College of The Bahamas Short Film Festival is open to all students of The College and will showcase our emerging filmmakers in a juried screening of student films. Student filmmakers will have the opportunity to exhibit and view their work on the big screen, meet other COB student filmmakers, film faculty, and network with the Bahamian film community.

Submission Guidelines

Submissions are encouraged across genres, from experimental & microcinema to traditional narrative and documentary. Send us that film your group always wanted to produce, that senior project on which you spent every waking hour or the interesting video you've been meaning to finish editing. If you made the film while you were a COB student, you can also submit it to our film festival.

Submissions must have a running time of 15, 30 or 45 minutes.

Submitting a film is free for all eligible filmmakers. Submissions from non-eligible filmmakers will not be considered.

Submission Process

Regular submissions on DVD-R are due by March 30, 2012 but you need to complete your submission form and turn it in no later than February 10, 2012 before 1:00 PM.

To submit a film:

1. Fill out the submission form which can be downloaded at: www.cob.edu.bs.
2. Submissions must be on DVD-R.
3. Submissions should be delivered by hand to Hugo Zárate in room T21 or to the office of the School of Communication and Creative Arts in room S6. The festival committee will review all films. You can get your form from the office of the School of Communication and Creative Arts, room S6.
4. Only complete entries will be processed and reviewed by the committee.
5. Filmmakers may submit more than one film.

Eligibility Requirements

The 2012 COB Short Film Festival is open only to COB students and recent alumni.

To be eligible, a filmmaker must be a current COB student or COB alumni with a graduation date of 2009 or later. Films submitted by recent alumni must have been produced during the time they were students. Work completed subsequent to your graduation is not eligible.

Judging Criteria

• Cinematography
• Screenplay/Acting
• Soundtrack
• Technical production
• Overall Impression

Notes

All entrants agree to let The College of The Bahamas use clips from their submissions for promotional use on television, radio, in print, and at live festival events.

All entrants will be notified of acceptance by Friday, April 6, 2012. A list of accepted films will be published in The College's website at www.cob.edu.bs and on Facebook.

The 2012 COB Short Film Festival will be held at the Harry C. Moore Library & Information Centre's Auditorium on Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 10:00 a.m.

Juried awards will be presented after the screening.

To download a registration form, click here:

COB Short Film Festival Registration Form

To print the event flyer, click here:

COB Short Film Festival Registration Form