Colorful Colorado Film Festival for Youth is open to all students between the 7th and 12th grades in the Great State of Colorado. All members of the movie-making team must be students within this age range. Students may use adults as advisors and as acting talent on productions but may not use adults to function in any other capacity relative to the making of their film or video. Students must have an adult sponsor for the project, whether it be a parent or a teacher.
Films and videos may be any length of time; however, we strongly encourage students to keep their submissions to a 10-minute maximum.
Recommended categories include: drama, comedy, public service or commercial announcement, music video, documentary, experimental, action-adventure, horror, science-fiction and animation. Please keep in mind, however, that judging is conducted based on overall excellence of concept and production. Judges reserve the right to create special categories to recognize excellent submissions, even if they do not fit into published categories.
Gratuitous profanity, dangerous stunts, use of guns, playing with fire on a windy day or otherwise, walking on bridge railings, driving while filming, use of drugs and alcohol, violence or obscenities and anything else that seems like it might be a really bad idea, are strongly discouraged - just like your parents, teachers and school administrators might say. Judges reserve the right to disqualify submissions based upon these criteria.
Please be aware that by entering your Film in the Colorful Colorado Film Festival for Youth,, you are also by default entering your film in the prestigious ‘CCOFFY Viewer’s Choice Awards’, which will enable fellow students, filmmakers and a large audience from throughout Colorado and the rest of the world to view your film in it’s entirety, marvel at your filmmaking, and perhaps vote on it for an award. For most people this is a very good thing, and a chance to have your film seen by a wider audience, but if you for some reason would not like to make your film available for others to see, please contact our festival director geoffrey.chadwick@ccuarora.edu and we will remove it from view.
Thank You!
