Contact - International Student Film Festival

Submissions open ONLY for short films (fiction, documentary, animation) produced by STUDENTS FROM UNDERGRADUATE film and media programs including students graduating in the academic year 2020-2021 Hello film lovers! It has been a long time since we have made Contact and all of us here in İzmir have missed you. What a long, exhausting, and challenging year this has been. For a time there, the world stopped, and so has the Contact Student Film Festival. Although there is no telling when we can safely get back together and watch your amazing films, our plan is to prepare for this year's festival and hope for the best. If all goes well, we will be seeing you in October again. For updates on the situation and any schedule changes, do not forget to follow our social media accounts. In the meantime, take care of yourself and imagine how great it will be when we meet again and together, watch all those beautiful films you have made. Hope to see you soon. With love, the Contact Student Film Festival Team. ***Submissions open ONLY for short films (fiction, documentary, animation) produced by students from undergraduate film and media programs including students graduating in the academic year 2018-2019. The filmmaker must have been an enrolled student at the time (department, division or film school must be listed in the film credits). All works must be 30 minutes or less in length. Graduate/postgraduate (MFA, etc.) level projects are NOT accepted, they can only be screened during the out of competition program. *** Contact – International Student Film Festival is a short film festival with the competition. Every October, our festival presents students works selected from over 1.500 submissions representing different countries. An out-of-competition program will feature screenings and masterclasses by international guests and film schools, special presentation and exhibitions, workshops and talks. The guest film schools were HFF Munich, LODZ Film School, La Fémis, and Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema respectively. Other schools selections included FAMU, Korea University of the Arts, Zelig Film School Louis Lumiere (Paris, France), Erciyes University (Kayseri, Turkey) and Mimar Sinan FAU (Istanbul, Turkey) to present a non-competitive showcase of the current student film productions from Europe and beyond. This year’s guest school will be Filmakademie Baden Württemberg (Germany). CONTACT is organized by the Faculty of Communication at Yaşar University (Izmir, Turkey).