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What are the film requirements?

The 2022 Burleson ISD Film Festival would like to challenge students in K-12 to produce either a narrative or animation/stop-motion film. The theme for this year is suspense. Along with the theme, we will be requiring three items to be in your short film.

  • Prop: An umbrella
  • Camera angles/shots: Over the shoulder
  • Line of dialogue: Where do we go from here?

Students are encouraged to think of creative ways to incorporate the prop, shots, and dialogue into their films.

What are the rules?

If you are a K-12 student interested in entering a film into our film festival, see the full contest rules below.

How are the films judged?

District Film Festival

The district contest will showcase clips of campus finalists' videos throughout the event. During the film festival, each category (narrative and animation) runner-up and grand prize videos will be shown. There will be a total of 10 videos shown*:

  • Secondary Runner-Up Narrative
  • Secondary Runner-Up Animation
  • Secondary Grand Prize Narrative
  • Secondary Grand Prize Animation
  • Secondary Viewer’s Choice
  • Elementary Runner-Up Narrative
  • Elementary Runner-Up Animation
  • Elementary Grand Prize Narrative
  • Elementary Grand Prize Animation
  • Elementary Viewer’s Choice

*may be altered if there are a low number of films entered in a particular category or if the viewer’s choice film is also a runner-up or grand prize winner.

Judges will critique and score the films based on the following rubric:

What are the prizes?

Awards will be given out for each category at the Burleson ISD Film Festival screening on April 21, 2022, at The Venue.

Grand Prize in category (4)

  • Secondary Grand Prize Narrative
  • Secondary Grand Prize Animation
  • Elementary Grand Prize Narrative
  • Elementary Grand Prize Animation

Runner Up in category (4) - Gift cards

  • Secondary Runner-Up Narrative
  • Secondary Runner-Up Animation
  • Elementary Runner-Up Narrative
  • Elementary Runner-Up Animation

Viewer’s Choice in age level (2)

  • Secondary Viewer’s Choice
  • Elementary Viewer’s Choice

Important Dates

December 17, 2021: Burleson ISD Film Festival Contest begins

March 11, 2022: Deadline for Film Festival entries

April 7, 2022: district finalists are announced

April 21, 2022: Screening of finalists @ The Venue

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