STUFFit Student Film Festival entries open in February 2025.
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An educational experience for people aged 15 to 19
Join the 2025 STUFFit Student Film Festival
Management Team
Start your enrolment process here.
Course commences 5th February 2025
finishes 5th November 2025
Tuesday and/or Wednesday and/or Thursday
8:30am to 4:00pm during school terms
+ a few days in the holidays
2024 Screening Event at Light Industry
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Creative Business and Events Skill-building
〰️ Creative Business and Events Skill-building
for people aged 12 to 19
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Join us in 2025 for our Events and Business experiences.
The STUFFit Full Season Experience
February 5th to November 5th 2025
Qualification offered by Learning Coach College (RTO 45570)
SIT30522 Certificate III in Events
BSB30220 Certificate III in Entrepreneurship and New Business
The course runs each Wednesday (or Tuesday or Thursday) 8:30am to 4:00pm during school terms
+ two school holiday team/work sessions in April and September.
STUFFit Student Film Festival offers a curated educational experience for students aged 15 to 19.
Students work as a team and build a suite of transferable skills and networks together.
This dynamic program is hands-on learning, running a well-established international student film festival.
The 2024 STUFFit Student Film Festival experience
“Fantastic! I thought it was a great success and the community we formed in the process was great.”
“... able to work in a professional setting with industry-level equipment.”
“Sad that it was over, but overall happy cause it was such a great turnout and everything went super well.”
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: $4500 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 5th 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
We are proud to present our 2024 Sponsors
Sponsors are a key element to the education of our STUFFit students who develop professional communication and customer relationship skills, developing budgets and managing banking. Category sponsorship also provides cash prizes to the Winners and Runners-up of our ten film categories, giving those students an opportunity to further develop their filmmaking skills.
STUFFit 2024 Screening Sponsor
Bassett Barks are community enablers, generously supporting an incredible range of community groups and proud supporter of the STUFFit Student Film Festival since 2022..
As our Screening Sponsor, Bassett’s enables STUFFit students to explore all the elements involved in managing a live event with 90 guests.
Thank you Bassett Barks.
STUFFit 2024 Event Tech Sponsor
Thanks to QuEvents for supporting STUFFit through our Crew-build and Screening event.
We are committed to building meaningful connections in the Events and Screen industries here on the Sunshine Coast.
In doing so we are building education and employment networks for young people close to home.
STUFFit 2024 Category Sponsors
We are grateful for the generous support given by each of these businesses.
Together we are building education and employment networks for young people on the Sunshine Coast.
Promotion Sponsor
Program Sponsor
The Yeates Family
Venue Sponsor
The Prasetyo Family
Screen Industry Sponsor
FAQs
2023 STUFFit Screening Event at the Black Box Theatre.
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Learning Coach RTO 45570 is a local Registered Training Organisation who uses Skills Recognition to Assess the work done by the students during the course to determine if they are competent to receive a Certificate III in Events (SIT30522).
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STUFFit is an international film festival run by students for students.
Our event students work on every element required to deliver an international event.
Short films are submitted by students around the world.
The Screening event is held in Nambour.
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Learning Coach: Skills Recognition process is a way to gain formal recognition for the skills and knowledge you already possess through prior learning experiences.
We focus on leveraging your real-world experience and don’t require you to go through lengthy, irrelevant courses.
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Students work on every element required to run our film festival, even co-managing a $10,000 budget.
Communications : Banking : Online systems : Time management : WHS : Document design : Stakeholder engagement : Programming -
As a STUFFit student you will work with other events on the Sunshine Coast to ensure you experience a diversity of learning and connecting to local employment networks.
You will become a member of the Sunshine Coast Screen Collective giving you access to a variety of screen industry events and opportunities. -
Cultivate the Chaos Pty Ltd, (ABN 36 667 160 947) is a social enterprise education company focussed on providing alternative pathways for young people.
Robyn Cook is Founder and Project Lead. You can find more details on Robyn’s LinkedIn profile.
Danielle Duncan; Learning Coach College RTO 45570
Robyn relies on this group of people to support and inform the work of Cultivate the Chaos and STUFFit Student Film Festival.
Sarah Wetton : Renee Paolini : Rebecca Grisman : Louise Hayes : Martin Duncan : Christine Manning : Dr Karen Sutherland : Feda Adra : Pamela Becker : Sunny Coast Showdown
River Kearns, AV tech, former STUFFit member and category winner.
Like to be involved? We are looking for other adults to support Cultivate the Chaos to develop an alternative for Years 11 and 12 and Gap Year.
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STUFFit is part of the screen industry here on the coast and collaborate with Pluggas Studio and others who deliver film and tv training.
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.