College Movie Festival

The College Movie Festival is Greater Cincinnati's long-running student filmmaking production celebration and competition. Students from participating colleges write, shoot, and edit movies with academic oversight for two and a half weeks. Then, three weeks later, the student filmmakers recevie feedback and network with area filimmaking professionals who have seen and made notes on the movies - receiving tips on making their movies better and exploring how the productions evolved. From there the movies are screened and select awards are presented at a professional movie theatre.

2024 Award Winners

• Judges Choice: "Hermit" by NorseMedia (NKU)
• Best Use of Required Elements: "Fishbowl" by Annoying Piece of Cat (Cincinnati State)
• Best Production Book: "Dear Mr. Douglass" by Norse Film Society (NKU)
• Audience Choice, Group A: "Two Step Program" by Off the Dome (Xavier)
• Audience Choice Runner Up, Group A: "Hermit" by NorseMedia (NKU)
• Audience Chioce, Group B: "No Running in the Halls" by CCM Studios (Cincinnati)
• Audience Choice Runner Up, Group B: "Professional Paper Toss" by The Fellas (Xavier)
• Automatic Entry to the Over the Rhine International Film Festival: "Fishbowl" by Annoying Piece of Cat (Cincinnati State)

2024 Viewing Blocks in the Dolby Theatre at the AMC West Chester

Group A - 9:00am

• Cincinnati State Annoying Piece of Cat
• Cincinnati State the Rewinders
• NKU NorseMedia
• NKU Team A
• UCi Clermont College Cougars
• Xavier Cinematics
• Xavier Off the Dome
• Xavier Team Rocket 

Group B - 10:15am

• Cincinnati State Keeping it Reel
• NKU Norse Film Society
• NKU Team One
• UCi CCM Studios
• Xavier Bread and Butter
• Xavier Elite Employees
• Xavier Team Deep Web
• Xavier The Fellas 

2024 Required elements

• Theme: Human Connection
• Line: "I'd rather you just tell me."
• Included with the final production book - a log line for your movie.

The 2024 schedule

• Kickoff: Thursday, February 15, 7:00pm (start arriving at 6:30pm) at Wandering Monsters Brewing 
• Screenwriting and Pre-Production: Feb 15 - Feb 23
• Production and Post-Production: Feb 23 - March 3
• Initial Cut and In-Progress Production Book due by 11:59pm, March 3
  
• One-on-Ones with the Pros: 1:00pm, March 24 at NKU's Digitorium
• Final Cut, Production Book, and Log Line due by 11:59pm, March 31 through this upload link
• Screening and Awards: April 20, 9:00am (group A) and 10:15am (group B then awards) at the AMC Theatre in West Chester