Entry and Payment

Entries for the 2013 Festival have now closed

Entry Forms

 School Entry Form (PDF, 105KB)   Individual Entry Form (PDF, 77KB) 
 School Entry Form (DOC, 325KB)  Individual Entry Form (DOC, 213KB)

An entry form must be submitted along with a DVD copy of your film in .avi or .mov format. 

Fee Structure

Primary and secondary school and tertiary institutions within Australia: $5 school fee plus $5 per film 
Individuals within Australia not affiliated with an eductional institution: $5 per film
No fee is required for international entries.

Payment Online

Credit card payment can be made online, @ online payment. - late payments can be made up until 10 May 2013.

Cheque/ Money Order Payments

Please make your cheque payable to Bayside City Council and together with your entry form and DVD send to:

Jump Cut Project Officer
Bayside City Council
PO Box 27
Sandringham  VIC  3191

Purchase Order

Schools can request a purchase order by emailing artevents@bayside.vic.gov.au.

Submission

All entries will require a completed entry form. Forward the completed form and DVD to:

Jump Cut Project Officer
Bayside City Council
PO Box 27
Sandringham  VIC  3191

Other entry opportunities

'Joint Call for Entries' is now open for the 6th Four River Film Festival, Croatia. If you are a High School studet and you have made a movie, show it at 6th Four River Film Festival, international festival of highschool film.

Entry deadline is May 15th! From September 11-14 we expect you in Karlovac – a hit place for high school film! For more information please visit frff.hfs.hr!

'Joint Call for Entries' is now open for the 3rd Down Under Berlin - Australian Film Festival. They are looking for features, documentaries, shorts and experimental films of all genres.

Down Under Berlin - Australian Film Festival takes place from 12 - 15 September 2013 in Berlin, Germany, it offers entrants the Joint Call for Entries again in 2013, which means that film submitted to our partner festivals in Berlin, which includes:

Down Under Berlin - Australian Film Festival and its partners and the network of independent Berlin film festivals attract over 35,000 people each year.

Submit your film to:
'Down Under Berlin'
entries must be submitted prior to
*1 June 2013 

 World clock - Berlin

Jump Cut entrants are encouraged to submit their films to the Reel Youth Film Festival this festival partners with the Vancouver Interational Film Festival (VIFF).

The festival touring program kicks off at the VIFF (which runs from 26 September to 11 October 2013) it then tours across Canada and around the world. The festival screens short films made by people under 20 years of age, and tours in partnership with youth media organisations, high schools, community groups and other established film festivals.  

Submit your film to:
'Reel Youth Film Festival'
entries must be submitted prior to
*Friday 14 June by 5pm EST 

 World clock - Vancouver

Why Do I Love Movies?’ – IPAF and ATOM are Calling for Entries for the Inaugural My Story My Content Short Film Competition.

The My Story My Content short film competition is an opportunity for Australian students at all levels to tell a unique story about themselves, their creativity, and why that is worth protecting. It is an  initiative of the Intellectual Property Awareness Foundation (IPAF) and  Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM).

My Story My Content provides students with the  opportunity to make a short film (no longer than sixty seconds) celebrating Australian screen creativity. The theme for this year's competition is 'Why do I love movies?'. This line, or an adaptation of it, must appear as a spoken line, caption or in some other way within the film, which must be made specifically for this year's competition. Entries do not have to fit into any one genre. They may be fiction or non-fiction; live-action, animation, or a combination of both.

Submit your film to:
'My Story My Content Short Film Competition'
entries must be submitted prior to
*Monday 1 July by 5pm EST 

World clock - Melbourne 

What is Heywire?

HEYWIRE is an annual competition for young people from regional Australia. It's also a powerful platform for your stories, ideas and opinions. Tell us your story!

The Heywire competition calls for stories about you and the community where you live. Each year, the best stories that have been uploaded to the Heywire website are chosen to be broadcast across the ABC on Triple J, Radio National and Local Radio. Anyone can upload stories to the website, but you have to be aged between 16 and 22, and live outside Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide or Perth, to be eligible to win the annual Heywire Competition.

The winning entrants (roughly 40) get the chance to go to the Heywire Regional Youth Summit in Canberra in February - all expenses paid!

Submit your film to:
'Heywire'
entries must be submitted prior to
*Monday 16 September by 5pm EST 

World clock - Melbourne 

*Subject to change, check website for details - Council is happy to promote these opportunities but is in no way responsible any agreements entered into with them.


Page last updated: 17 May 2013

Memory House
dir. Callum Mitchell
6.15 minutes
Finalist - Secondary Category (AU)
2012 Bayside Film Festival

It
dir. Dani Leever
4:21 minutes
Finalist - Secondary Category (AU)
2012 Bayside Film Festival