American Student Film Festival ()

Festival start: 18 October 2019      Festival end: 18 October 2019

Student features, shorts, documentaries and music videos from around the world! The American Student Film Festival is based in Phoenix, Arizona and is hosted at the prestigious Alamo Drafthouse!

Film-makers are invited to participate in Q&A's at their screenings, receiving free tickets for themselves, cast and crew, as well as free custom give aways based on their films! The Alamo is known for its drinks and menu available throughout the screenings and we customize the menu for each selection of films screenings - so if you ever fancied a $5 dollar shake, or your own custom burger named after the one in your movie - here's the chance for it to become a reality! We tailor at least one item on the menu to each film selected!

The Awards Ceremony rounds out the event, with several awards up for grabs and all films in the Official Selection competing for a variety of nominations and awards.

Being close to LA, we have a number of film investors, distributors, producers and talent agents in attendance at our festival each year, so this is the perfect festival to not only get exposure at one of the coolest cinema chains in the country, but also make important contacts in the industry.

Our festival prides itself on film-maker communication and ensuring you have the most enjoyable time possible at the event, so you can be sure that if you make it into the Official Selection you will be kept up to date every step of the way.

High Quality Screening? You bet! We work with DCP's and high res files - and can even create DCP's for your film, so that your work shows in the best possible quality.

If you've made a Student Film, we want to see it! Submit today!

* Best Short Film
* Best Music Video
* Best Documentary
* Best Director
* Best Music
* Best Actor
* Best Actress
* Best Animation
* Best New Screenplay

1. Dates and Venue
The American Student Film Festival will take place in October 2019. The category winners (see 8.) will be announced at the Awards Ceremony. The venue for 2019 will be the Alamo Drafthouse in Tempe, AZ.

2. Competition
The Festival reserves the right to place entries into alternative categories if they feel it is to the benefit of the title. Each submission must be entered separately. Entries will be assessed and successful submissions will be programmed for screening and enter the Festival competition. Failure to submit a screener copy four weeks prior to the festival will rule out eligibility for an award. If your films is selected we reserve the right to show your film at a time and date of our choosing.

3. The Arizona Filmmaker Category
Filmmakers must currently reside in Arizona, USA to submit to this category.
Proof of residence may be requested at the time of a project's acceptance. If this proof is not supplied in the requested timeframe the film or screenplay's acceptance can be revoked at the administrator's discretion.

4. Formats
For films, online screeners via FilmFreeway are the only acceptable format for the selection process.
For screenplay submissions the only acceptable format is .PDF via FilmFreeway.
Successful submissions that are granted a screening will need to supply their highest-res .mov or .mp4 file (Vimeo links and the like are acceptable as long as they are downloadable) at least 21 days before the date of the screening.
Please note, we do not accept films shot in 4:3 unless the filmmaker has reformatted it to 16:9.
The final date for submissions is as dictated on FilmFreeway.

5. Selection
The Festival is organized by a committee. The festival committee reserve the right to invite films for the competition and programme. Screening schedule will be announced after the final submission deadline. The final award winning entries will be selected by a festival jury and audience votes. Award winners will be notified within 14 days of the festival screenings.

6. Entry Returns
We do not return submission entries.

7. Screenings
It is the responsibility of the entrant to ensure that films for screening are deposited with the festival organisers at least 21 days before any scheduled screening.

8. Publicity
We reserve the right to use extracts from submissions for festival publicity and marketing purposes. Press kits are not required, but are useful, so please feel free to send these with your submissions.

9. Categories
Please note that if we do not receive enough acceptable submissions for each category, we will merge them e.g. music videos will be moved into short films.

Films from all years are considered, regardless of completion date.
International submissions are accepted.

Awards
* Best Feature Film
* Best Short Film
* Best Music Video
* Best Documentary
* Best Director
* Best Music
* Best Actor
* Best Actress
* Best Animation
* Best Script
* Best New Screenplay
* Most Original New Screenplay

Awards may be subject to change at the discretion of the Film Festival Committee.

9. Submission, Selection for Screening, Awards and VOTING
There are 3 distinct stages. Submission, screenings and awards. The administrators' decision is final.