Submissions for the Cambridge Watersprite Film Festival are open NOW!

To enter, students should go to www.watersprite.org.uk/submissions and upload their film.

Watersprite is an international competition for student shorts. We discover and champion emerging student talent, and award industry-specific prizes to kickstart professional careers. 

The Festival is free to enter, and our bursary scheme brings shortlisted filmmakers to attend the festival, hosted at the University of Cambridge. We invite those shortlisted filmmakers to join our online filmmaker forum, where they meet and connect with other young filmmakers from around the world. 

Past winners include Will McGregor, who has gone on to secure BFI funding to develop a script with Watersprite Festival Chair, Hilary Bevan-Jones, as well as direct award-winning shows on British television. He is just one of our success stories. Over the years we've consistently provided a platform to transform student filmmaking into professional careers.

We very much admire the work coming out of Universidade Lusofona de Humanidades e Tecnologias. We have received high-quality submissions from your filmmakers in the past and we hope to do so again this year. 

Attached is an information leaftlet about Watersprite that we hope  you will circulate amongst your students.

Please let us know if you would like physical versions of the information leaflets, or a festival poster, as we'd be happy to send additional materials over to you.

Submissions have opened today and will close at midnight on Sunday 22nd November - so tell your students to get applying!