The New Jersey Young Filmmakers’ Festival seeks short films and videos from students with a home base in NJ. NJYFF is an open-genre festival accepting films in all categories including Animation/Stop Motion, Documentary/Broadcast, Experimental, Narrative, and hybrids.
Filmmakers attending middle school, high school, college, and/or independent directors from age 12 through 29 may enter. Filmmakers must either reside in or attend school in New Jersey. This festival is specifically designed to support and feature works from New Jersey based young filmmakers. Filmmakers are required to list both the school they attend and their home mailing address. One of these addresses MUST be based in New Jersey.
All films that include a music track, must either have permission from the artist to use the music, use royalty-free music, or original music. All music included in the sound track must be listed in the credits. FIlms employing copyrighted music without express permission from the artist will be disqualified.
Film Submission running times:
Middle School: Total running time for films must be 5 min. or less.
High School & College/Independent: Total running time for films must be 10 min. or less.
Opening Date for Submissions: Friday February 14, 2020
Deadline to Upload Entries – Friday May 1st, 2020
Jury for student films + T-Shirt/Logo design - Friday May 8st, 2020
Awards Notification for filmmakers & T-shirt/Logo Design – Monday May 11th, 2020
NJYFF Festival Premiere 2020 - Saturday May 30th, 2020 at 6:00PM at the Thomas Edison National Historical Park, 211 Main Street, West Orange, NJ.
Submission Guidelines:
Films must be entered directly on FilmFreeway’s NJ Young Filmmakers’ Festival page. A $15 entry fee is required for each film submitted, payable on the FilmFreeway website. For 2020 the submission extended deadline is June 30th, 2020. A downloadable link must be provided for each film submitted.