Festival details
The St. Vrain Valley Student Film Festival is a chance for local high school and middle school students to share their unique story and perspective. It is intended to create a platform for students to share their voice. Don’t keep your voices, or your films, hidden.
Entries for the 2026 festival are due April 10.
This year’s festival is on Friday, April 24th at 6 p.m. at the Longmont Theater Company.
Film categories
Film(s) may be submitted in one or more categories:
- Action/Sports: This category is for films that concentrate on action — think skateboarding, dance, mountain biking, etc.
- Animation: Can be digital animation, stop motion, or drawn animation
- Comedy: Emphasizing humor, this film is intended to make the audience laugh
- Documentary: A nonfiction story intended to instruct, educate or historically record
- Drama: This category is about the story and is a narrative intended to be more serious than humorous
- Experimental: This category is for films that experiment with filmmaking and can be done in filming or in post production
- Middle School: Any submission by a middle school student
- Thriller: A film that sustains high levels of tension, suspense, and anticipation, designed to keep the audience on the edge of their seats, without blood, gore, or violence. (Please review #6 in the submission guidelines before submitting.)
- Long Form: Any film over the 8 minute limit but not to exceed 30 minutes. These films may not be shown at the festival depending on time constraints.
Selection and screening
A selection committee will view films and choose which films will move on to judging. The selected entries will be screened by the judges who will score each film based on a common rubric. The top 3 scores in each category will be shown at the festival. Judges scores will then be brought to the festival and averaged with the audience voting to calculate a first, second and third place winner in each category. Winning films will receive an award.