T24 Festival Call for Entries

Dear Centennial College Film and Broadcasting Faculty

The Toronto Youth Shorts Film Festival is a platform for local youth filmmakers in the GTA to showcase their films on the big screen in a professional festival setting. We're the only festival in the city that puts the spotlight on young emerging filmmakers and a highlight on local stories and local productions.

Last year, we launched a new initiative called the T24 Project, a film challenge that tasks young filmmakers to tell their stories about the city on the big screen. Young filmmakers form teams and create a short film that incorporates their experiences in Toronto - the catch is, they must do it all in 24 hours!

This is a great opportunity, particularly for first year students to practice their skills, learn their strengths and weaknesses, produce work for a professional festival, receive feedback via a live adjudication by industry professionals including other festival programmers and film critics and win some great prizes that can be used towards their next project. It's a great learning opportunity and a networking one where they will meet their peers who are also striving to be a part of the industry.

The T24 Project is conveniently held on the evening of April 29th, after exams are over. Deadline for registration is April 27th. All information can be found on our website at www.torontoyouthshorts.ca. We also have a general submission all for work produced by students on their own or for class.

I hope to see Centennial College Students come out and participate in this exciting endeavour. In previous years, we've seen participants come from every major film program in the GTA except Centennial and as a Centennial College alumni (class of 2009, Event Management Postgrad program), it would be nice to see some Centennial representation.

Cheers,

Henry Wong
Festival Director
Toronto Youth Shorts Film Festival
www.torontoyouthshorts.ca

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The T24 Project was one of the best experiences in filmmaking that I have had to date. Bringing together a team and producing a short film over 24 fun and exhilarating hours was the highlight of 2010 and will be again an amazing experience in 2011. I gained an excellent understanding of how I work under pressure, as well as learning a lot about the different skills that my crew had to offer. It was a tiring and difficult endeavour that every filmmaker should try, at least once (if not every year that Henry decides to keep it running!)
- Jamie McMillan, participant of the 2010 T24 Project

Toronto Youth Shorts is a great launching point for any aspiring filmmaker. It gave me my first festival experience and the staff accommodated me with warmth and kindness.
- Philbert Lui, participant of the 2010 T24 Project - winner of the Audience Choice Award

In my opinion the T24 Project film challenge is close to being an essential task for any up and coming film maker. The learning curve is steep and even if the result of your film is less than amazing what you learn about the process and demands of film making is priceless.
- Chris Laxton, participant of the 2010 T24 Project