Short Summary

So We're hosting a free film contest this summer via reddit.

• Competition Starts May 1st

• All Non-English submissions must besubtitled in English

• There will be sections to which users may enter.

• Beginner For Those who are entering the first films / Beginner film makers

• Standard/Amateur Entry Most Users will enter here, This is the main section of competition.

• Professional Entry For those who want to compete with the best of the best.

• Films/shorts must have a minimum of 5 min in length, and a maximum of 20min

• There will be no minimum age for participants, and no size limits on teams/budgets

• On April 1st A list of themes/characters will be released for Users To vote upon, The Top 3 Themes, and the top character, must be incorporated into each teams film, in some way.

• Each team can create any type of film/short that they choose, as long asthese themes are incorporated.

• Each team will have from May 1st toAugust 18th, to write, film, edit, and submit their projects.

• Users will upload their projects to their own youtube channel, as well as submit their projects to our moderators to be uploaded to the "RedditFilmContest" Youtube channel. On this channel we will display each users films, as well as link to each team's youtube channel to display other works by them if they so choose.

• Judges will then Vote on the best film in each category, based upon how well they represented each theme/creativity. Specific Judging criteria will be released at a later date

• Judging will take place during the week following august 18th, and winners will be announced on August 24th

The one thing we dont have sorted out is prizes. This competition is attracting alot of attention, and we hope to keep doing it every year. We want to give beginner film makers a chacne to get their work out there and not have to worry about the expenses of film making and trying to find competiton at their level.

Our Goal Is to give out a $500 gift card to http://www.bhphotovideo.com/ to the winner from the beginner category, a $1000 to the winner from the Standard category, and a $1500 gift car to the winner from the pro category.

The pro category has already attracted some big attention, Nick Barros http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2592792/ known for working on films such as thor, and transformers has intrest in entering the competition.

We hope that you all will help support us, and thank you for your time.