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  • COVCREATIVE FILM FESTIVAL

    Welcome to this year’s CovCreative Film Festival. This year, with the help of Warwick University, we’re going even bigger than ever before, with a series of new categories open to students from ALL Coventry schools.

    CovCreative Film details 2025

    The CovCreative Film Festival will be on Saturday 12th July from 6.30 pm at Warwick Arts Centre, Cinema Screen 1. The event is a celebration of the great film-making work of students in Coventry, and will include several films already nominated for national awards. 

    Bar and restaurant facilities are available for refreshments at Warwick Arts Centre.

    PLEASE NOTE: A TICKET NEEDS TO BE PURCHASED FOR AWARD NOMINEES TOO. 

    If you have a ParentPay account at Finham Park, please pay for your tickets HERE.

    If you are purchasing tickets from outside the school, please follow this link, stating clearly that the payment is for “CovCreative Film Festival, X number of tickets”.

    Tickets cost £10. 

    For further details email m.gunn@finhampark.co.uk 

    Awards:

    • Best Year 9 Film Intro
    • Best Year 10 Film Intro
    • Best Year 11 Film Intro
    • Best Year 12 Short Film - open category
    • Best Year 13 Short Film - open category
    • Best U25 Fictional Short – Max 20 mins, anything over 5 may not be played in full - open category
    • Technical awards
      • Best Director
      • Best Performance
      • Best Screenplay
      • Best Production Design
      • Best Cinematography
      • Best Editing / SFX
      • Best Sound Design

    Rules:

    All films:

    • No copyrighted material may be used (royalty free and Creative Commons licensed are fine as long as they are credited)
    • Fiction Films for Best U25 category may be completed in groups 

    Technical awards:

    • Technical awards cannot be entered directly: The short-list will be selected from entries across all other categories

    For further details please email m.gunn@finhampark.co.uk 

    New Categories include...

    • Best Year 9 Film Intro
    • Best Year 10 Film Intro
    • Best Year 11 Film Intro
    • Best Year 12 Short Film - open category
    • Best Year 13 Short Film - open category
    • Best U25 Fictional Short – Max 20 mins, anything over 5 may not be played in full - open category
    • Technical awards
      • Best Director
      • Best Performance
      • Best Screenplay
      • Best Production Design
      • Best Cinematography
      • Best Editing / SFX
      • Best Sound Design

    Rules:

    All films:

    • No copyrighted material may be used (royalty free and Creative Commons licensed are fine as long as they are credited)
    • Fiction Films for Best U25 category may be completed in groups

    Technical awards:

    • Technical awards cannot be entered directly: The short-list will be selected from entries across all other categorie
      • Best Sound Design
    • For further details please email m.gunn@finhampark.co.uk 

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    The Finham Film Festival started in 2016.

    It was a response to the growing quality of work being produced by Film and Media students within the department, and a desire to show that work to industry professionals.

    Until then, students had been gaining good coursework grades, and winning local competitions, such as the Coventry Digital Creativity Awards. Once our students entered national competitions with their work, their ambitions grew, and since 2016 Finham Park students have been nominated as finalists 15 times for national awards.

    In 2018, we won our first national award, which was quickly followed by two more. To date, our students have won 8 national awards, including 4 in 2022 alone.

    The Finham Film Festival is our opportunity as a department to showcase the best work of all our students, and show the creative industries what we have to offer. Every year, we invite special guests from the film and media industries to watch the films and judge them. Our guest judges include editors, concept artists, production designers and directors who have worked on films such as Rocketman, Avengers, Star Wars, Nativity, Scott Pilgrim vs The World and the Harry Potter series.

    If we can impress them, we can impress anyone in the industry.

     

    Fostering a Film Culture at Finham Park School

    Head of Performing Arts, Mike Gunn, from Finham Park Secondary School in Coventry explains his approach to using film and film making to support the curriculum.

    THE FILMS

    Best Year 10 Film Intro Sequence

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    Best Year 12 Short Film

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    Best Under 25 Short Film

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    Best Year 9/10 Film Intro Sequence

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    Best Year 13 Short Film

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    Best Documentary

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    CovCreative Film Festival 2024 - Winners

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    PREVIOUS WINNERS

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