Films must be produced by teens, grades 8-12, who reside in the state of Florida.
Films must be no longer than five minutes in entirety, including the requirements of a title and end credits.
More than one teen may work on a film, but the final version of that film may only be submitted by one teen.
Adults may serve as actors in a film, but they cannot perform any other duty in the writing, filming, editing, directing or producing of the film.
Entrants may submit up to three films for consideration.

FORMAT REQUIREMENTS:
Initial submissions must be via online screener. Please upload your film to YouTube or Vimeo and provide the link on the submission form. If video is password protected, please provide that information as well. Teens whose films are selected for either the Virtual Showcase or the Official Selections Screening  will be asked to provide high quality .MOV files to be delivered to Enzian on a USB flash drive or sent via a cloud storage service (i.e. Google Drive, Dropbox). Film file must be named with the film title and director’s name (ex: “Citizen_Kane Orson Welles”). Ensure that you “allow access” for Winter Park Library and Enzian staff to open/view/download the file.
 
LEGAL DISCLAIMERS:
When you enter a film in the Reel Short Teen Film Festival, you:
•give all sponsoring parties permission to use film title, images, names and other film info to promote future Film Festivals
•understand that a jury will review all submissions and select those to be screened at the Film Festival
•accept that the jury may not select films for the festival that contain excessive violent or obscene content

COPYRIGHT NOTIFICATION:
All music credits must be included in the final credits of your film. Photos and other such visuals plus various forms of music that were not created by you but found—on the Internet and elsewhere—are copyrighted, even if they don’t include the copyright character, “©” and the owner’s name.

Your film should not contain copyrighted material (songs, video, photography, etc.) unless you ensure that you have obtained permission for that material to be used. If your film includes copyrighted audio or visuals, you MUST include a statement in the credits certifying it is used with written permission from the copyright holder. If you do not have written permission to use copyrighted material, your film will not be selected.

TIMELINE:
ALL SUBMISSIONS DUE BY 9:00 PM SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 2023.
A pre-jury committee will review every film entered to ensure they abide by submission guidelines. Films that are not deemed Official Screening Selections may be presented on our Virtual Showcase platform. Only Official Screening Selections are eligible to receive awards.

Filmmakers will be notified via email by Wednesday, February 1st, 2023 as to whether or not their film has been selected for the Virtual Showcase or as an Official Screening Selection (to be shown at Enzian Theater).

Reel Short Teen Film Festival Virtual Showcase – Sunday, February 19th, 2023 to Sunday, March 5th, 2023.
Reel Short Teen Film Festival Official Selections Screening - Saturday, February 25th, 2023 at 11:00 AM at Enzian Theater.

Official Selections will be screened at Enzian where the Jury Awards will be announced and the Audience Choice Award will be determined. These films will be added to the Virtual Showcase platform after their screening to be viewed between Sunday, February 26th and Sunday, March 5th, 2023.
 
 
AWARD CATEGORIES:
A jury panel will select awards in various categories except the Audience Choice Award, which will be virtually ballot-chosen by the screening audience on Saturday, February 25th, 2023. Jury awards may include the following:

Best of Show
Screenwriting Award
Best Animation
Most Inspiring
Honorable Merits

 
Reel Short Teen Film Festival 2023 Release Form: (to be submitted with each film entry)

By entering the Reel Short Teen Film Festival, the applicant agrees to all rules and
regulations as defined in the Submission Guidelines and agrees to release and hold harmless the Enzian and Winter Park Library, including their Trustees, staff, and other representatives and other festival sponsors from any and all claims arising in any way from the submission or use of materials (from here on referred to as “the Work”) by or on behalf of the applicant. Further, the person submitting this form agrees to pay any attorney's fees and/or court costs that should arise from the performance of this agreement.

The Enzian Theater and Winter Park Library will not mass duplicate your film for the purposes of profiting from the sale of it. However, the Enzian Theater and Winter Park Library may use your film in various promotional efforts to publicize teen achievements in filmmaking or to document the art of teen filmmaking. To this end, the applicant also grants a non-exclusive license, throughout the world and in perpetuity, to the Enzian Theater and Winter Park Library to:

- Show the Work to the public at a future Reel Short Teen Film Festival
- Use the Work for Reel Short Teen Film Festival promotions and fundraising
- Include or embody the Work in another film produced by the Reel Short Teen Film Festival (such as a collection of films to be used for promotion of the Reel Short Teen Film Festival)
- Display the Work, in part or in its entirety, on enzian.org and winterparklibrary.org and their respective social media platforms
- Present the Work, including sounds and images of the Work, to the public by any means including, but not limited to: the Internet, cable, satellite, radio, television, newspapers, CD, DVD, and Blu-ray
- Have the Work listed in the festival’s printed and promotional materials including the catalog of entries
 
By writing the names of the applicant and/or guardian on this submission form, the signee indicates that he/she holds all necessary rights for the submission and display of the Work and grants to the Enzian Theater and Winter Park Public Library a share in those rights for the purposes outlined in this entry form.
 
Submission of your work indicates that you have carefully read the above information, fully understand its content and voluntarily agree to its terms.