Sierra Canyon Film Festival

All films submitted must have been completed no earlier than April 1, 2024.

PLEASE NOTE: Selected schools will be invited to make submissions, and those schools will receive an entry code. If you would like to enter the festival but are not from an invited school, reach out to the festival director at doreilly-rowe@sierracanyonschool.org .

Submissions should be work created by young people who were engaged in high school education at the time of the project's completion. Limited assistance and support from educators or others is permitted, but should only be in supporting the creative vision of the student-producers. Submissions might come from schools, after-school programs, or could be produced by filmmakers of high school age independent of an educational program.

We welcome submissions from all locations internationally, but require English language subtitles for submissions in languages other than English.

The maximum duration for a single submission is 15 minutes.

We value the authentic and diverse voices of young people, and welcome the submission of intellectually and creatively challenging work. The festival screening caters to a school-aged audience. Films with explicit violence or gratuitous drug use are highly unlikely to be selected for screening. Sierra Canyon Film Festival reserves the right to refuse entries for any reason.

Our preferred format is Apple ProRes 422 .mov. Submissions can be made in any format, and the festival will work with filmmakers to collect high quality files for screening.

The Sierra Canyon Film Festival/Sierra Canyon School is hereby granted the right to utilize an excerpt from any film submitted and accepted for exhibition at the festival for promotional purposes.

The individual submitting the film hereby warrants that they are authorized to commit the film for screening and understands and accepts these requirements and regulations.

The undersigned shall indemnify and hold harmless Sierra Canyon School/Sierra Canyon Film Festival from and against any and all claims, liabilities, losses, damages, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney's fees and costs of the court) which may be incurred by reason of any claim involving copyright, trademark, credits, publicity, screening, and loss of or damage to the screening videos entered.