We created this festival as an opportunity for undergraduate filmmakers of the Southeast U.S. to come together and celebrate the art of student-produced motion pictures. Our mission is to ignite creativity and passion for cinema among college filmmakers and our local community alike by establishing a regional platform showcasing outstanding student films and screenplays, putting Southeast students on the map!

The festival is programmed and run by a group of dedicated Film and Video Production students at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton, Georgia. The two-day event, running January 31 - February 1, 2019, will feature screenings of short-film blocks both on the UWG campus as well as at the Carrollton Center for the Arts in downtown Carrollton, as well as dramatic readings of the screenplay competition's award winning-scripts, visiting filmmaker Q&A's after most screenings, and an awards ceremony and reception concluding the festival. Join us this winter to celebrate Southeastern Student Filmmakers!

Awards & Prizes

-Prizes awarded in the following categories: Narrative fiction, Documentary, Experimental, Screenplay.

Rules & Terms

-Filmmaker must have been enrolled in a college or university undergraduate program when the film was completed, in one of the following Southeastern regional states: Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi.

-Status as an undergraduate student in one of the qualifying 7 states should be confirmed by an uploaded student ID. To add a picture of your student ID to your project in FilmFreeway before submitting, go to 'My Projects' > 'View', then use the 'Files & Attachments' to upload. Project will be disqualified without this required document.

-There is no limit to the number of individual submissions, however each submission requires an entry fee.

-2015 produced projects and newer only.

-No music videos will be considered.

-20 minutes max run time short films in the following categories: Narrative fiction, Documentary, Experimental.

-20 page max screenplay length, conforming to industry-standard format and completely free of grammatical/typographical errors (subject to disqualification if these parameters are not met).

-Online Screeners only.

-Full electronic press kit required (logline, synopsis, 2 high-res production stills, cast/crew list, director bio and photo).

-Prizes awarded in the following categories: Narrative fiction, Documentary, Experimental, Screenplay.

-Copyright clearance to all content is required and may be requested in-writing before your film can be screened.

-By submitting your film to the Southern Sunset Undergraduate Film Festival you confirm to having read all submission guidelines and terms and conditions. If all guidelines are not met upon submission, the submitter forfeits all submission fees.