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.
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. ”
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
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 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
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.