About The Festival

Film and video is a thriving field of study throughout the SUNY system. From the traditional Hollywood narrative to animation, from experimental film and video to documentary work, students and faculty are exploring personal visions through time-based image making. It’s time to showcase the work that best exemplifies the best of the best with each other, our local communities and the rest of the SUNY system.

Submission Dates

Entries should be postmarked no later than March 1, 2010.

(See the SUBMIT page for more details)

Festival Dates

April 15th-17th, 2010

Categories

Animation

Documentary

Experimental

Narrative

Non-Competition

At this time we are not able to accept and showcase film or video based installation work. We encourage anyone working in these or other gallery-centric formats to keep checking back, we hope to be able to do this in future festivals!

Juror

Tricia Regan

Click on GUEST JUROR 2010 for more information.

Awards

Awards are listed above.

Formats

At this time we are only screening work that can be screened on video. Our goal is to be able to screen 16mm and possibly 35mm formats in the future.

Please see the SUBMIT page for more information.

What Sets Us Apart?

We want you to experience a competitive and juried festival. You may have thousands of hits on YouTube but is that your ideal audience? Has your work stood up to tough scrutiny beyond the classroom?

Getting into a competitive festival while still in school is a powerful testament to the work a student is doing, but this is an educational opportunity that is often overlooked by students or ignored because of the often-expensive entry fees. We want to provide a chance for students within the SUNY system to experience what it is like to apply and get into a festival; to be able to add their accomplishment to their graduate school, or grant applications, and to start building their curriculum vitae or resume.

An additional goal for the festival revolves around our commitment to enriching our academic and local communities with entertaining, thought-provoking and challenging film and video work.

Over the next few months keep checking back as we will be adding more information to the website. We're very excited for our 2nd Annual SWFF and can't wait to see what you create!

-Media Arts Club, SUNY Fredonia

P.S. Please be assured that no student working directly on the festival will be allowed to submit work for the competitive portions of the festival. We have chosen to do this to make the festival without bias or favoritism as much as possible.

*** SWFF is only for film and video makers associated with the SUNY school system. This includes former students who have graduated in the last year. Work submitted by alumni must have been done while a student.

Questions

We welcome all questions comments and suggestions please email us at swff@fredonia.edu 

The SUNYWide Film Festival is generously supported by:

The Carnahan Jackson Humanities Fund, 

Academic Affairs,

College of Arts and Humanities,

Department of Visual Arts and New Media,

Department of English through the Mary Louise White Fund

and the SUNY Fredonia Media Arts Club.