Rough Cut | Film Festival

- Rough Cut

Launched in 2010, Rough Cut is an international competition for budding filmmakers across film genres. Past winners have gone on to study film and have careers in the industry!

Thanks to all filmmakers who submitted films for Rough Cut 2023.
Check back here for dates and details on Rough Cut 2024.

Date of Festival : Thursday, April 27, 2023
Submission deadline for all films : Saturday, April 1, 2023

ROUGH CUT 2023 - WINNING FILMS

C'est moi

Best Narrative Film

Stephanie Aguinaldo

Almost Nirvana

Best Animation Film

Justine Gonthier

The Martinez Cigar Factory

Best Documentary Film

Sien Cohen and Balthazar Fonteneau

Un rêve balayé

Best Short Cut Film

Juliette Sathe

ROUGH CUT

Submit your film to be part of New York City's international short film festival for students.

The Jury Prize winner will have the incredible opportunity to be included in the program of Francophone Short Films in Harlem Festival and have their film screened at Maysles Cinema and both Columbia and NYU Maisons Françaises!

Students submit films via this website and are invited to a special screening event at the Lycée Français de New York on Thursday, April 27 at 5pm.

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

For further details, please contact roughcut@lfny.org.

ROUGH CUT SUBMIT HERE

ROUGH CUT GUIDELINES

For students age 11 to 18
Films must be written, filmed and created 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

Click here for full list of rules and regulations.

SHORT CUT GUIDELINES

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…")

Click here for full list of rules and regulations.