NSFA
This year a small selection of students from universities and film societies across the country set up the National Student Film Association with aims to promote and support the making and watching of student films in the UK. The NSFA aims to offer students interested in film advice and support if they want to make a film, have their work screened or set up their own film society or festival in their university or college. The organisation also aims to help student filmmakers to network with each other and collaborate on future filmmaking or film exhibiting projects.
Screentest is going through the process of becoming the official film festival of this organisation and because of this will undergo some quite major, but extremely exciting, changes over the next two years. After the event in 2010 Screentest will no longer be held in Bristol but will be hosted by a different university each year in hope to enhance its national character and for it to reach even more people. The Awards that Screentest host will also undergo some quite major changes in order to work within the aims of the NSFA. The awards categories have changed from being awarded by genre to awards which we hope will encourage students to continue to raise the bar of student filmmaking:
- Best Film
- Best Music Video
- Best Animation
- Best Documentary
- Best Comedy
- Best Drama
- Best Thriller/Horror
- Best Cinematography
- Technical Achievement
- Best Script
- Best Sound
- Best Acting
- Film Society Achievement (for the film society that has submitted the best range and quality of films)
- NSFA team achievement (for the best film made between two or more universities)
- Audience Choice
We hope that these changes do not discourage your involvement in this festival; Screentest is becoming part of something much bigger and more exciting than it already is and we hope that the changes that will take place will only continue to support and encourage student film and its exhibition.