Our 2025 Celebration
Every year, Trinity Film Festival offers undergraduate filmmakers the opportunity to premiere their short films on the big screen for peers, professionals, and local filmgoers. Undergraduate students from all around the world submit films to TFF in the hope of being awarded the opportunity to visit Cinestudio Theater in Hartford, CT and to present their films to a packed audience. We were honored to host so many incredible filmmakers for our 2024 festival, and look forward to another fantastic year.
Our 14th annual celebration of student filmmaking will take place on Saturday, May 3rd. In addition to welcoming filmmakers from near and far, we will also be welcoming members of the Trinity and greater Hartford community. In addition to our red carpet and film screening, all attendees are invited to attend our catered reception and awards ceremony, which will include a live performance from one of Trinity’s talented acapella groups, the Quirks. For those who aren’t able to make it to the celebration, the awards ceremony will be streamed live on the evening of May 3rd. Additionally, our selected films will be available to stream on this website for a limited time following the festival. The winning films will be featured permanently on our “Past Festivals” page.
We are absolutely honored to be able to host so much emerging talent. Thank you so much to our 2025 TFF team, our panel of judges, and all the staff, students, and alumni who contribute to this wonderful event - we would be nowhere without your hard work and dedication. We hope to see you May 3rd, 2025!
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Festival Eligibility
Made by an enrolled undergraduate student
10-minute maximum length
Any film or genre
Created after September 1, 2023
Event
Trinity Film Festival is a celebration of the best undergraduate filmmakers in the world. It is an intimate event at one of the premier independent movie theaters in the United States. Audiences, professional judges, and accepted filmmakers all watch the films together in a 1930s-style movie palace, followed by an Oscars-style awards party on the beautiful campus of Trinity College. Filmmakers are required to attend if selected, and will be the stars of the evening — they will have the opportunity to network with other filmmakers and our judging panel of film professionals, to hear feedback directly from audience members, and to win cash prizes on a night they'll never forget.
We are tirelessly working to produce a world-class event for TFF 2025. We will be live-streaming our awards ceremony on this website and will make the selected films available to watch for a limited time following the festival.
filmmakers
Accepted student filmmakers will have the opportunity to meet and network with talented peers from around the world. Past filmmakers have hailed from countries including the US, Canada, Mexico, France, & the United Kingdom.
GUEST JUDGES
Past guest supporters have included Henry Alford, Kristine Belson, Mary Buck, Brian Hayes Currie, Stephen Gyllenhaal, Mark Moses, Bill Raymond, D.B. Sweeney, Lauren Wolkstein, and many more.
AWARDS reception
During the catered Academy Awards-style reception, thousands of dollars of cash prizes will be presented to the top filmmakers as judged by TFF's panel of industry professionals and alumni.
AUDIENCE
The Festival draws a large audience from the Trinity College community and the northeastern United States region to celebrate cinema in the 1930s-style, state of the art, Cinestudio Theater.
“I met people here who I will never forget and look forward to meeting down the road as we pursue our own unique careers in this competitive film industry!”
