1. Films should be less than ten minutes in length. However, this year there is a new category for “super short films” that are three minutes or less.

2. Narration and dialogue should be in Arabic, Chinese, French, German or Spanish with English subtitles.

When you title the film, please include this information in this order.

Title, Name of school, Language, Level and Category (Genre)

My Great Film, Happy Land Academy, Spanish, Intermediate, Drama

Thanks! This helps us keep track of all the films.

• We have the capacity to view and judge about 100 films in the time available after March 7th.

• We will attempt to accept any film that is uploaded to the FilmFreeway site by the due date (March 7th).

• However, we reserve the right to limit the number of films in order to have time to judge them and to show them all starting April 7th.

• We will take films on a first-come, first-served basis. However, depending on space availability, teachers who submit more than three films may be asked to choose their top three in order to accommodate other schools).

• After we have received 60 films, we will consider accepting additional films before March 10th based on the following:
  a) The date of the film's arrival,
  b) The language of the film and
  c) The number of films sent by each school and / or teacher

• Our goal is to have films from each of the four languages represented. If space is tight, we reserve the right to ask schools who send multiple entries to select a certain number of films that they would like to have officially represented at the festival.
  Please be assured, however, if we can find the resources to accommodate all the films, we will.

1. Keep films G or PG rated. No profanity or inappropriate material is acceptable. No drug or alcohol use should be depicted. UCM reserves the right to disqualify films for content or language. Participants in the film festival range in age from 12 years to 18 years of age. Please make sure the film is appropriate for younger viewers.

2. Cultural sensitivity: While the films do not need to portray or explore cultural topics related to the target language, if students choose to include “culture” in their film, we ask that they refrain from stereotypic or insensitive representations of people from a particular region or country.

• Copyrighted music, stories, or screenplays may not be used without permission.

• You may want to do a Google search with a search string such as, "Royalty-free music".

• YouTube has a number of royalty-free sounds and songs.

• Audio editing software may also be used to create music. Or, students can play their own instruments to create a soundtrack.

• Copyright is the responsibility of the movie makers. Please secure permission for any scripts based on copyrighted works.