ZOOM International Student Film Festival

RULES & ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:

The ZOOM International Student Film Festival organizers may, in their sole discretion, disqualify entries deemed unsuitable due to coarse language, excessive and/or gratuitous violence, any work deemed as hateful and/or racist, inappropriate situations that do not adhere to a 14A or lower rating in Canada.

The ZOOM International Student Film Festival organizers reserves the rights to disqualify any entry that fails to comply with the following requirements:

i. Films must not exceed 5 minutes in running-time.

ii. All filmmakers that have participated in the creation of the entry (excluding cast members and/or teacher advisors) must be enrolled as a secondary school student at the time of submission.

iii. All students must be between the ages of 14-18 years at the time of submission.

iv. Films submitted must have been produced during the years 2025 and/or 2026.

v. Each film must be submitted with a FilmFreeway submission info form.

vi. Filmmakers must retain all rights to ownership of their work. This includes rights to music and images, and rights to include all persons, places and organizations included or depicted in the entry. The ZOOM International Student Film Festival organizers will not accept responsibility for any copyright infringement, falsified information, contract or legal issues incurred by the filmmaker(s) or their submission. The responsibility of obtaining copyright and protecting any proprietary interests in the material belongs solely to the filmmaker(s).

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

i. Fully understand and adhere to the "Rules and Eligibility Requirements."
ii. Entries will only be accepted when submitted through FilmFreeway.
iii. Submission materials will not be returned.
iv. Submitted entry must be formatted as a downloadable MP4 file format.
v. All submissions must be received by Sunday, April 6, 2025 by 11:59 PM (Toronto, Canada time).
vi. Entrants will be notified by email of acceptance by Sunday, April 6st, 2025 by 11:59 PM.
vii.Entrants may not withdraw their entry from the festival after the film has been submitted. The festival organizers reserve the rights to withdraw admitted entries from the festival lineup with no notification.