COVCREATIVE FILM FESTIVAL
This year, with the help of Warwick University and UNESCO, we’re going even bigger than ever before, with a series of new categories open to students from ALL Coventry schools.
The documentary must be on the theme of sustainability or the environment, but this brief can be interpreted any way you wish. For details of the full brief, rules and time constraints, please follow the link below...
CovCreative Film details 2024
Welcome to this year’s CovCreative Film Festival. This year, with the help of Warwick University and UNESCO, we’re going even bigger than ever before, with a series of new categories open to students from ALL Coventry schools.
The CovCreative Film Festival will be on Friday 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.
Tickets cost £10.
For further details email m.gunn@finhampark.co.uk
New Categories:
- Best Documentary – Primary
- Best Documentary – Secondary
- Best Documentary – Undergraduate
- Best ex-student Fictional Short – Max 10 mins, anything over 5 may not be played in full
- 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 Ex-Student and ALL Documentaries may be completed in groups of five maximum
Documentary films:
- Must be submitted by 31st May
- May be on any subject related to the theme of the environment or sustainablity
- Must be shot on a mobile device
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- Check out our great documentary-making resources from Into Film to help your project
- Best Documentary – Primary category is open to students of any age in Primary schools, including non-mainstream schools
- Best Documentary – Primary category films should be between 2-5 mins maximum
- Best Documentary – Secondary category is open to students of any age in Secondary schools, including non-mainstream schools
- Best Documentary – Secondary category films should be between 3-5 mins maximum
- Best Documentary – Undergraduate category is open to students of any age studying at university
- Best Documentary – Undergraduate category films should be between 3-10 mins maximum
Technical awards:
- Technical awards cannot be entered directly: The short-list will be selected from entries across all other categories
Prizes:
Primary and Secondary winners will be selected for a filmmaking day at Screenology in Bristol as well as a tour of Bristol UNESCO City of Film
If you need resources to help you make documentaries, please see these fantastic resources from Into Film:
For further details please email m.gunn@finhampark.co.uk
New Categories include...
- Best Documentary – Primary
- Best Documentary – Secondary
- Best Documentary – Undergraduate
- Best ex-student Fictional Short – Max 10 mins, anything over 5 may not be played in full
- Technical awards
- Best Director
- Best Performance
- Best Screenplay
- Best Production Design
- Best Cinematography
- Best Editing / SFX
- Best Sound Design
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 GCSE Film Intro Sequence
Best Yr12 Short Film
Best Year 13 Short Film
Best Year 9/10 Film Intro Sequence
Best Yr13 Ext Short Film
Compilation of 2022 winners
PREVIOUS WINNERS
Photo Gallery
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