2025 STUFFit Student Film Festival entries are now open
Submit your films on FilmFreeway - Early bird entries close May 28th
Sponsor the 2025 STUFFit Student Film Festival
Are you keen to support student filmmakers?
Enable a teen’s future career in the creative industries by becoming a category sponsor with STUFFit Student Film Festival.
In return, receive prominent signage and brand awareness on STUFFit socials & our red carpet/media wall, and 2x tickets to our Screening & Awards event in October.
Various sponsorship opportunities are available, starting at $150.
Our 2025 Sponsors & Supporters
Technical Partner - QuEvents
STUFFit Student Film Festival is grateful for the continued support of Quentin, Riley, Kayla, and the QuEvents team.
Our partnership enables us to provide a professional, hands-on experience for young filmmakers and event crew, helping build meaningful connections between the events and screen industries on the Sunshine Coast.
Venue Partner - Light Industry
Thank you to Sarah and Norm for your continued hospitality. Our student crew loves working in the amazing venue you have at Light Industry, and seeing our festival come together.
The 2024 STUFFit Student Film Festival experience
“A wonderful festival to be part of that celebrates students film makers across the globe! Love the student led aspect of the organisation and running of the festival.”
“This festival is one of the best festivals for high school students in Australia. Our students and their parents had a great time at the event this year and they loved seeing their work up on the big cinema screen. Great communication from the festival organisers. We’re looking forward to next year already!”
“Our students were thrilled to be a part of STUFFit!!!!! Respectful, courteous and puts kids first.... All the way from across the world, we of the Downriver Detroit Student Film Consortium Thank you!!!!”
2024 Supporters and Sponsors
“I’m the owner of QuEvents and we deliver events across Queensland. I’d like to acknowledge the important work of Robyn Cook in the local events space. Robyn has created employment pathways for youth considering a career in events and as a local employer I find this very exciting for my own selfish reasons; you are creating my future workers.”
“This is our second year of sponsoring STUFFit and the growth that we’ve seen is incredible and we hope to support this for many more years to come.”
“We chose Documentary because we should be encouraging our young people to document real life and to tell stories about real people. ”
STUFFit Festival Season 25Crew
Duration: Commences 5th February 2025 Finishes 5th November 2025 with several school-holiday team/work sessions.
Schedule: Every Tuesday,Wednesday or Thursday, 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM during school terms + two school-holiday 3-day team/work sessions. Days will be determined based on what day the majority of students can be away from school.
Age Group: 15 to 19
Description: This comprehensive course encompasses the entire process of planning, marketing, and delivering our 13 year-old international student film festival.
The 25Crew, gain invaluable real-world experience in event management, including the responsibility of managing the festival's budget of $10,000. This practical application of event skills is a unique aspect of the course, also providing students the opportunity to develop ‘relational capital’ within the creative industries.Qualify your experience: Through our collaboration with Learning Coach (RTO45570), students will have, if all requirements are met, the opportunity to apply for Recognition of Prior Learning on their STUFFit experience and be assessed for a Certificate III in Events (SIT30522). See course brochure for details.
Course Fees: $4200 for the full season (we are working to secure part-funding for students with limited financial resources)
STUFFit Screening Event
Date: 4th October 2025
Description: Screening the Winners and Runners-up from the 2025 Festival Season
Tickets on sale in August 2025
Open to: All welcome
Venue: TBA
STUFFit Screening Crew-build
Date: 27th & 28th September 2025
Description: Join the Screening Crew as we run through a 90% dress-rehearsal for the main STUFFit screening event on Saturday 5th October. A team of professionals will work with the Screening Crew to design the lighting, camera angles, sound recording, seating plan, stage placement, signage and everything else needed for our Screening event on 4th October.
Cost: TBA
Open to: People aged 13 to 19 with a get-the-job-done attitude and the capacity to follow directions.
Venue: TBA
Tickets on sale May 2025
STUFFit Student Film Festival
a pocket history 2011 to 2021
STUFFit Student Film Festival was founded in 2011 by Bernadette Natoli, Kathryn Kiernan-Molloy and Jasmine McCaul at St. John’s College Nambour. Over the next ten years over 170 students worked on the management team, STUFFit had received over 1600 original short films made by teenagers in over 20 countries.
STUFFit Screening 2023
The culmination of our 30 week educational journey.