For Students and Filmmakers

Q: What is Sonscreen Film Festival?

Sonscreen Film Festival is an annual film festival for young creatives. Students and young professionals attend from all around North America and even offers travel assistance so schools can attend.

Q: When/where is the next festival?

April 4-6 in Loma Linda, CA

Q: How do I register for Sonscreen?

Registration will open here on sonscreen.com starting November 5

Q: Can students come to Sonscreen?

Yes! Sonscreen is especially tailored for students. We encourage students to submit their work for screening, and all of our festival awards are presented to student films.

Q: Is Sonscreen only for students?

Not at all. While it is true that competition for the awards is only for students, professionals of all levels are still welcome to attend the festival, make network connections, and even showcase their work as examples for students.

Q: How do I get involved with Sonscreen?

Thanks for asking, we’d love to have you! Just send us an email and ask to be added to the mailing list. Or, if you have something in mind, reach out and let us know your ideas!

For Pastors and Church Leaders

Q: What is Sonscreen Film Festival?

Sonscreen Film Festival is an annual film festival for young creatives. Students and young professionals attend from all around North America and even offers travel assistance so schools can attend.

Q: Why an Adventist film festival?

Sonscreen is unique – it’s the only Adventist event of its kind. And that’s part of why it’s so important. Students and professionals in film and creative arts need to see that there’s a place for them within the Adventist support system – whether for employment, or just connection. Sonscreen celebrates student’s creativity, and also creates channels for those students to stay involved after they graduate.

Q: What’s a film festival?

It’s an opportunity for filmmakers to show their work to others. Film students and other creatives submit their films for consideration, and the selected films are screened for the whole group during the weekend. The event also features educational speakers and time for young filmmakers to connect with each other.

Q: What is “Sonscreen Films”?

You may not have heard that name before – it’s fairly new. Sonscreen Films is a newer project from the Sonscreen Film Festival team. Between festivals, the team works year-round to bring filmmakers together, and spark creativity. Making films takes a lot of people – more than most schools are offices have available. That’s why Sonscreen Films believes we can do more when we all work together.

Q: What are some of the film projects Sonscreen Films has been involved with?

Sonscreen Films works with Hope Media Europe, and filmmakers from Adventist media centers around the world on a yearly international network project. Past productions for the network project have included

Arnion, a 10-part web series that paints Revelation in an-easy-to-understand light
Uncertainty – a documentary on life during the 2020 isolation

Sonscreen has also partnered on several narrative projects:

Encounters, a five-part TV series about college chaplains that’s set to released in the
US early this year
‍Ancient of Days, a series in development based on the Biblical story of Daniel.

The team also produced a short film Those Were the Good Days that premieres this March, but AMC attendees get an advance screening of the short film on Monday night.

Q: How can I use Sonscreen Films in my ministry?

All the films you see on our website are available for you to share with your churches and communities. If you visit our “categories” page on the website and type “faith” in the search bar, you’ll see a list of films pop up that have explicit discussions of faith and spiritual themes. However some of the films not list in the “faith and spirituality” section might also be great for your ministry needs – watch them and see if you feel inspired to create a parable or object lesson. Feel free to stream these films off the website for small groups, and personal viewing, and if you’d like to arrange a larger-scale viewing, contact us to make arrangements.

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