Contribute to the Student Filmmakers Guild

Submission Guidelines:

The Student Filmmakers Guild welcomes and publishes content submissions from the largest community of students and professionals in the film industry. The community of the Guild encourages submissions through articles, stories, reviews, guides, resources and news from any filmmaker.

You do not have to be a professional writer to have an article appear in the Guild's information. You simply must have a desire for the furtherance of filmmaking - and of course, something to say about a facet of something film related.

Types Submissions We Use:

The Student Filmmakers Guild focuses on filmmakers at the student level. While we attract professionals, we want our content to be focused on student filmmakers. The SFG is highly interested in content that has a high level of educational content.

The always expanding Guild prefers to focus on checklists for help enhance student filmmaking. The content we prefer revolves around how-to's for students, information about very specific parts of filmmaking that can involve students, stories about student filmmakers or recent graduates that are excelling, interviews with professionals that have advice or information for students, essays by or for students.

The Guild also wants contributions about special events or event reporting for Guild members, movie and product reviews, school reviews, news relating to filmmaking, student filmmakers profiles, advice from professors to students, student opportunities, and anything else that you can think of for further education.

Deadlines:

The Student Filmmakers Guild has no deadlines, we publish material on a daily basis, but due to high content submissions and higher content standards, there will be a necessary amount of time for the review process.

Featured, Large, or Episodic Articles will be published every Tuesday.

Submission Length:

Article length varies, depending on content but an average word count per article is 500 to 1500 words, and sometimes up to 3000 words or longer, depending on type of article.

If a large article is accepted, arrangements can be made to publish in a series over a few weeks or months should the article be more than 4000 words.

The Student Filmmakers Guild encourages episodic articles.

Contributors Biography and Image:

As the Student Filmmakers Guild is a community, we want all contributors to submit a biography and an image to the Guild.

How to Submit Your Articles:

Send your submissions by email to:

studentfilmmakersguild@gmail.com

or post to:

Student Filmmakers Guild
Box 135
10061 Riverside Drive
Toluca Lake, CA 91602

Via Email:

Please copy and paste your text into the online form or in the body of your email as well as attaching a Word document.

Via Post:

Please send your submission on standard size white paper clearly typed. No handwritten submissions please.

ALL CONTENT SUBMISSIONS:

Please include your name, contact information, availability of photos, query or full article, byline, and biography.

PLEASE DO NOT CALL the Guild for content submission related questions due to the high volume of phone calls we receive daily.

Image Requirements:

Above 300 dpi; larger than 1260 pixels in width are preferred. TIFF or JPEG files only. Please include photo credits if applicable and short descriptions for captions.

Response Time:

We reply within 48 hours via email when content submissions are sent via email, however, please keep in mind that articles go through phases of review by the editorial staff.

Content submissions through the post will be replied to via post or email within 72 hours of physical receipt. Expect a 7 day process for review by the editorial staff.

GUILD MEMBERS:

We would like to feature you, your accomplishments, your films, and your schools to the community.

You can submit stories, reviews, guides, resources and news as well. We also accept submissions of your films, videos and media.

Films, videos and media will be chosen at the discretion of our editors.

Feature submissions SHOULD include an entry letter, a film or video, production shots or movie stills, and a press kit if you have one. Submissions are only accepted from Guild Members.

Entry letters SHOULD be clearly typed. Entry letters MUST include film title, year of production, director, contact name, address, city, state, zip code, country, phone number, and e-mail address.

Films and videos must be on DVD, VHS or email in Quicktime format.

Production shots or still images from films or videos must be on CD in JPEG or TIFF format, above 350 dpi 8.5"W X 11"H.

All submission materials must be labeled and include contact name, film titles, phone number, and e-mail address. Submissions should be mailed to:

Student Filmmakers Guild
Attn: Featured Student Submissions
Box 135
10061 Riverside Drive
Toluca Lake, CA 91602
Materials will not be returned unless accompanied by a self-addressed, postage paid, mailer.

The Student Filmmakers Guild is headquartered in Los Angeles, but is an worldwide community. Opinions, information, articles, stories, reviews, guides, resources and news are solely based on contributors.

The Student Filmmakers Guild welcomes letters from everyone, articles, photos, movie stills, film submissions, stories, reviews, guides, resources and news and unsolicited manuscripts. but returned only with postage paid, self addressed mailers.

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