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Short Film
The MIST Short Film Competition seeks to encourage audio-visual expression of the Islamic culture and identity among a younger generation and to reward those whose work displays talent and originality.
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- All submissions are due no later than Feb 4th, 2008. They should be mailed to the address below. All entries postmarked after the above date will be immediately disqualified, NO EXCEPTIONS.
DC MIST
P.O. Box 6729
Silver Spring, MD 20916
- Accompanied with the submission, contestants must also include the Short Film Entry Form. Contestants who forget to turn in this form with their submission will lose points towards their final competition score.
- The Film group will be allowed 3 minutes to explain how they made the film, what the purpose behind the film is, and what inspired them.
- Each group will submit no more than one typed page explanation of the film.
- Film groups may contain between 1 and 6 members working as a collaborative effort or as part of a school project. You can have more than 6 people work on the project, but only up to 6 can be registered for it.
- Entries MUST be original works that have not been previously distributed/awarded/recognized or publicly exhibited as of the submission date and entrant must be the creator of the submitted work, holding the full copyright ownership therein.
- Films entered may be of any genre, fiction, documentary, animation, art or experimental.
- All films MUST relate to this year's theme or risk losing points.
- Films may NOT exceed 7 minutes in length (including opening and closing credits).
- Acceptable tape formats for submission are: Mini DV, VHS or DVD (Video format) only. The title and the entrant's MIST ID must be clearly identified on the tape. Entrants shall be notified of submission receipt via email only.
- Contestants risk losing points for inappropriate audio content.
- Although all possible care will be taken in handling all entries to the extent of practicable, MIST cannot assume any responsibility for any loss or damage to the entries. (The Organizer suggests that entrants purchase an appropriate insurance policy.) Also, competitors should make sure to have a copy of their film because MIST cannot guarantee the return of all short film entries.
- Judging Criteria will be based upon the official MIST National ballot.
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