Students ages 11 to 18 are invited to be part of the 13th annual Rough Cut Short Film Festival, the Lycée Français de New York’s annual international festival of student short films. Submissions are due by April 1, 2023.
Students submit films of 10-minutes or less via the Rough Cut page of our Cultural Center website and are invited to a special screening event and competition at the Lycée Français de New York on Thursday, April 27 at 5pm.
Past winners have gone on to study film and have careers in the industry!
A jury of film professionals, faculty, students and past winners give awards in four categories:
-Best Animated Short
-Best Documentary Short
-Best Narrative Short
-Best Experimental Short
The festival is open to any student, age 11 to 18, with these requirements:
-Films must be written, filmed and edited by the students
-Maximum 10 minutes in length
-School-appropriate subjects only
Films in languages other than English are welcome, but they must be subtitled in English.
New this Year: Take the Short Cut to Rough Cut !
For students (and their teachers) who love to create films, have an eye for comedy, but don’t have time, make a 30-second, “short cut,” with these guidelines:
- Prop: mop/broom
- Character: firefighter
- Line of dialogue: “C’est pas son jour, c’est jamais son jour” or in English “It’s not his day; it’s never his day…”)
Deadline for submission for all films is Friday, April 1, 2023.
For further details, including guidelines and submission link, visit culturalcenter.lfny.org.
If you have any questions, please let the organizers know at roughcut@lfny.org.
With many thanks from the Rough Cut 2023 organizing team:
Jean-Louis Bonnaure, History-Geography coordinator and teacher
Julien Guibreteau, Art and Music Coordinator, Secondary fine art teacher
John Tasevoli, Secondary fine art and cinema teacher
Rough Cut Festival of Student Short Films
Screenings and Awards: Thursday, April 27 at 5pm
Lycée Français de New York
About the Author :
Elisabeth King joined the Lycée team in November 2011 as the school’s first director of communications. A francophile at heart, Elisabeth spent her junior year of college in Paris, and held her first job at the French Trade Office here in New York. She brings to the Lycée over 15 years of experience in media and communications in non-profits, government, news and business. She was previously executive vice president and director of strategy at ABI, Inc., a boutique public relations agency, and she worked as associate editor on two books co-authored by Todd Brewster and the late ABC News anchor Peter Jennings.