Students were invited to design the central image for Sands: International Film Festival of St Andrews 2023.

Sands invited the students of St Andrews to design the central publicity image for the 2023 edition of Sands: International Film Festival of St Andrews and win:

Full credit on brochures and publications for this prestigious, new festival with international reach

A free, premium pass to all screenings, talks and VIP hospitality

£100 in vouchers for Amazon

The competition is open to all current students, under, and post-graduate, at the University of St Andrews.

THE BRIEF

Festival context

Sands evokes the very essence of film, reflecting the sense of St Andrews as a place and of the people who live and work here. Sand is as transient as a frame of film, yet leaves a lasting and emotional impression, in the same way as a great film can.

Vision

A significant event in Scotland’s cultural calendar, Sands: International Film Festival of St Andrews is a three-day event presenting an exciting and diverse international showcase of contemporary and classic cinema alongside a range of supporting events. The 2023 festival takes place 14 – 16 April 2023 in the historic town of St Andrews.

Sands believes in the transformative power of artists; politically, socially, artistically: artists who are making an impact, changing perspectives and inspiring audiences around the world. We are firmly focused on making the Festival into an accessible, audience-friendly event that pushes boundaries and introduces new filmmaking voices to our local communities.

Sands: International Film Festival of St Andrews creates an important space for exchanging ideas, opinions and inspirations in the framework of an accessible, inclusive film event.

The competition

The Festival Director and Sands: International Film Festival of St Andrews Steering Committee invite you to create an image to appear on the festival’s publicity, NOT a logo, in response to the Festival’s mission to explore what the idea of excellence means to various artists and members of the film industry and how it manifests itself. In particular, we want you to explore the idea of BEGINNINGS.

You should bear in mind that all Festival communications must be accessible to people, regardless of their ability or disability, so think about contrasting tones, size and vocabulary used in any text or images you might choose to employ and the image’s ability to adapt across various formats.

The winning design will have appeal across a range of demographics, with the ability to attract the attention of students, academics, artists and people from our many and varied local communities.

HOW TO ENTER

Submit an A4 PDF, up to 4-pages with concepts for your design with proposed colour palette, showing how you imagine it working on:

the A5 brochure cover

a page publicising a single film

a two-colour tote bag

a festival pass, which would hang on a lanyard

a Facebook header for the Festival page

alongside a film publicity image on Instagram

Your image can be:

A graphic or text

A photograph or photocollage

An illustration or painting

So long as it is all your own work.

The prize

full credit on brochures and publications for this prestigious, new festival with international reach

A free, premium pass to all screenings, talks and VIP hospitality

£100 in vouchers for Amazon

Deadline for entries

please note the deadline has now passed

Midnight Thursday 1 December 2022

Winner announced Tuesday 6 December 2022

Send to: byreboxoffice@st-andrews.a.uk

Terms and conditions

By submitting your design, you are confirming:

it is your own original work

you are happy for it to be circulated on digital and analogue platforms by the University of St Andrews and the Byre Theatre

The Byre Theatre retains the right to veto any content which is deemed to be inappropriate.