Are you a high school student in Wisconsin?
The festival is designed specifically to showcase your talents and achievements as high school student filmmakers. To be eligible for awards the following awards, you must be 14–19 years old and currently enrolled in high school in Wisconsin:

• Grand Prize. The best film of the festival will automatically be screened, the month prior to the Spotlight festival, at the Milwaukee International Film Festival!
• Best Narrative Short
• Best Experimental Short
• Best Documentary Short
• Best Animated Short
• Best Music Video
• Best Commercial or Public Service Announcement

Other awards, such as Audience Favorite, Best Comedy, Best Lighting, may be awarded as well.

Are you in college? Not from Wisconsin?
Your films still deserve to be seen!

• Beyond Wisconsin category. Entries from outside Wisconsin will be eligible for the Beyond Wisconsin Award.
• Spotlight U category. We will also be accepting entries from filmmakers who have graduated from high school and are now developing their talents in college. We hope that our high school student participants will get a taste of what the film world is like beyond 12th grade. These films will be available for the Spotlight U Award.

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