2020 Redstones Alumni Short Film Competition

We are excited to announce the call for submissions for Best Alumni Short to the 2020 Redstones in Los Angeles on April 9, 2020. For more than 30 years Sumner Redstone has funded our student film festival, which was originally only in Boston and has expanded to Los Angeles. In 2011, we introduced a competition for our Film &TV Alumni, which is now open to all BU alumni. The winning film will be shown as part of the Redstones Los Angeles screening, along with the current student winners chosen by the Redstones judges. The winners will be awarded a Canon camera & accessories sponsored by Canon.

The Film and Television Department at COM is accepting shorts produced or directed by BU alumni according to the following criteria:

  • Short must have been produced and/or directed by a BU alumna/us post-graduation
  • Length: 30 minutes or fewer

Submission procedure and format requirements:

Google Drive will be used for submitting materials.

  1. Create & name a folder in Google Drive accordingly: RED20a_MovieTitle(LastNameFirstName)
  2. Place submission materials in folder: Quicktime file, Movie One Sheet, and any copyright releases
  3. Share Google Drive folder with ftcine@bu.edu

Media Specifications and Standards are as follows:

  1. Picture: YCbCr Rec.709 (color), 1920×1080 (res.), 23.976 (fps)
  2. Sound: -20dB (average), stereo (2chn-L/R), 24 (bit), 48kHz
  3. File: .mov (Quicktime), Avid DNxHD 175X (codec) or Apple ProRess 422 HQ (codec)

Questions regarding submission may be forwarded to ftcine@bu.edu .

The winning film will be chosen by a panel of COM Film & Television faculty and screened at the Redstones Film Festival in Los Angeles on April 9, 2020. The filmmaker will be invited to join a reception following the screening.

All submissions must be received by postmarked by March 1, 2020.

For more information, contact:

filmtv@bu.edu
617-353-3483