Presenting the Eastern Arizona College Skills Day Film Contest. This contest is open to students currently enrolled as a high school junior or senior. Students are invited to submit their best short films that are under 10 minutes long. Students may submit as many films as they want, but each film must be a separate entry. Films selected for the Eastern Arizona College Skills Day Film Contest will be screened during the annual EAC Skills Day on April 22, 2025. Winners will be announced during the Skills Day awards ceremony. If not present, winners will be contacted via email.

Winners will be awarded in the following categories:

Best Film Overall
Second Place Film
Third Place Film

The director of the Best Film Overall will be given a FULL-TUITION scholarship to attend Eastern Arizona College for two years to complete an Associate of Arts in Media Communications.

1. Films must be entered via FilmFreeway by April 8, 2025.

2. Films entered into the 2025 Skills Day Film Contest must be made in the 2024 or 2025 calendar years. Films do not have to be made in conjunction with a class or teacher.

3. Films must be under 10 minutes in length and can be of any genre (ie. narrative, documentary, experimental).

4. Films must not contain any adult content (nudity, profanity, illegal drug use, violence, or other adult themes). Films that do not comply with this rule will be eliminated from consideration.

5. All films must have a Title Card with the name of the film and end credits.

6. There are no limits on how many people can work on the film. Please list all contributors to the film on the FilmFreeway project page. Those involved in production and post-production must be high school aged students. Actors can be of any age.

6. Film must not be subject to litigation nor is threatened by any litigation. Entrant accepts all licensing responsibility for any copyrighted material contained in their film.

7. Entrant must be authorized to submit this film to the Skills Day contest and understand that the contest director holds the right to screen said film for Skills Day screening and promotional purposes and to extract clips from this film for promotional purposes. This includes streaming of films online on sites of the Eastern Arizona College Skills Day Film Contest and/or its sponsors and affiliates.

8. Awards will be given to the top films as determined by a panel of judges selected by Eastern Arizona College. Physical prizes will be mailed to winners if they are not present at the festival.

9. All decisions by judging panel and Eastern Arizona College High School Film Festival are final.

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  • Nicole Lease

    Such a fun festival to attend! My crew and I had a great experience, and we are honored to have won several awards. Keep up the good work!

    March 2023