1 - 8minutes
This category is for any type of film created by 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students.
1 - 8minutes
This category is for any type of film created by 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students.
1-8 Minutes
This category is for anything that doesn’t conform to any of the other categories. The goal is to have fun, be creative, and entertain.
1-8 Minutes
This category is for films that use computer graphics, computer animation, Flash, or stop-frame animation. Be sure your animation tells a story.
1-8 Minutes
This category is for anything you find humorous. Submissions such as parodies and spoofs - popular on YouTube - are accepted.
15 seconds - 1 Minute
This category is for advertisements or promotional pieces. Commercials can include school-related activities as well as commercial products.
1 - 8 Minutes
This category features films that teach or demonstrate. Corporate videos are also included.
9 - 30 Minutes
This category enables you to explore non-fiction films, focusing on a person, place, organization, event, etc.
9 - 30 Minutes
This category enables you to explore in-depth stories with developed plots and characters.
1 - 6 Minutes
This category is for original music or songs in which you have written permission to use. Check out our Music Resources page for approved music.
*Please note that no copyrighted music will be accepted without written permission from the artist.
Up to 3 Minutes
This category is for solid broadcast journalism. Stories should effectively communicate the “who, what, where, when, why, and how” of a chosen topic.
Please note that we DO NOT accept full broadcasts.
30 seconds - 2 minutes
This category is for films that raise awareness, change public attitudes, and/or effect behavior towards a social issue.
2-8 Minutes
This film type takes an in-depth, non-fiction look at an event, person, place, or thing.
2 - 8 Minutes
This category is for films that tell a story - think beginning, middle, end, conflict, rising action, climax, and resolution.
Up to 3 Minutes
This category is for a commercial advertisement that previews coming attractions for a film, musical, play, special event, or sports season.