Boston University’s student filmmakers have less than a week to prove themselves as the best on campus while competing for the opportunity to screen their original films to an international audience.

Campus MovieFest, the largest student film festival in the world, will hold its Boston regional competition at BU for the first time this year. From April 4-10, aspiring filmmakers have the opportunity to show their work and compete for a range of prizes.

About 1,000 students are participating in the festival this year, said CMF representative Megan Solomon in an email.

“We’ve . . . shared the event around the world to over 75,000 students, and we’re always looking forward to returning to the sun and incredible students and staff in Boston,” said CMF co-founder and CEO David Roemer in a March 8 press release.

Student participants, who have one week to create their original films, received training and equipment to film their five-minute movies yesterday at the George Sherman Union Alley.

CMF, which partners with Turner Broadcasting System and Turner Classic Movies channels to organize the festival, expects to award more than $50,000 in prizes to winners in the Boston regional competition, according to its website. Regional and national winners will then compete for a grand prize of $10,000 and a chance to have their film screened internationally, according to the press release.

Since 2000, the competition has been held on campuses around the world, including several Boston-area schools, but has never come to BU. College of Communication junior Steven Thaw and COM sophomore Johnna Todesco worked with Ideas United, LLC, the company sponsoring CMF, to help bring the festival to campus.

“Since BU is one of the largest schools in the city and has a huge [film and television program] that is very highly regarded, it didn’t make sense that [CMF] was not at BU,” Thaw said in an online conversation.

“The great thing about CMF is that it brings together people who aren’t necessarily film or television majors with others who have some background,” he continued. “They really try to make it a universal event.”

After films are submitted, students and faculty from each school will judge the entries and choose a university winner.

Films are judged in many categories, including the CMF Best Picture award, Audience Choice award, TBS Very Funny Film award and TCM Classic Short Film award.

An April 14 screening of university-wide winners at the Colonial Theatre will include films by students from Boston College, BU, Emerson College, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University and Tufts University. A regional winner will then be chosen to compete in the national finale.