Invite to movie-making teens (and parents)

The Shoreline Short Short Film Festival (SSSFF) has put the call out to filmmakers, young and old, to create and submit their movies for consideration for the organization’s 8th annual festival competition. 

Do you have budding filmmaker in your home, serious about their art and ready for a challenge? Is your child in a videography class at school? This popular local festival is a great way for student filmmakers to push skills, receive feedback, and, if selected, see their film on a theater screen.

Not to mention, the submission fee for a student-made film is $10 compared to the average short film festival submission fee of $35-45.

All filmmakers welcome

“Anyone of any age can submit a film,” Says SSSFF Executive Director, Quinn Elliott. “We’ve had films made by high school students accepted into the Festival recently, and every year, some films feature children as actors.”

One filmmaker recently raved: “SSSFF provide[s] such a cool platform for local filmmakers to screen films in a theater full of audiences!”

One-day festival

Accepted films will be screened during the single-day festival on April 13, 2024, at the Shoreline Community College Theater.

All genres are accepted. A jury of local filmmakers and film advocates judges entries. Two cash prizes are on the table: $1,000 for what judges determine to be the best picture and $1,000 for the People’s Choice Award winner.

Rules

Here are the submission rules:

• Filmmakers must be residents of Washington
• Filmmakers may only submit one film
• Films should be 3-13 minutes in length, including credits
• Filmmakers must have the proper license to all copyrighted music, video, and images included in the duration of their submission(s)
• Films must have been completed after December 1, 2022
• All non-English films must have English subtitles
• Submissions must be made online. DVDs and Blu-Rays will not be accepted

Submission deadline

Films must be submitted by February 13, 2024. Approximately 12 films will be selected to participate in the festival. All films chosen for the festival are promoted via the ShoreLake Arts website and social media. 

Word of warning

The April 13 festival screening is open to all ages, but “That being said,” Quinn warns parents, “the films are unrated, and some of them would probably garner a PG-13 rating.” 

In other words, check out the line-up before you venture out and read the film synopsis at Shoreline Short Short Film Festival. 

Questions? Email Teresa at programs@shorelakearts.org or info@shorelakearts.org.

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