YouTube Your Film Festival

Tuesday, January 31, 2012 jeffrey 0 Comments

YouTube is in search for the world's best storyteller. Join the Your Film Festival contest and be a YouTube sensation. Simply submit a 15-minute original video which celebrates the power of storytelling with a focus on creativity and narrative. Upload it on your YouTube account and be chosen as the potential semi-finalist. Encourage everyone around the world to vote for your entry via your YouTube website community for a chance to win $500,000 USD production grant and access to Production Company in order to create a new short film or series intended for online distribution. Finalists will also receive a 6-day/5-night trip to Venice, Italy for the screening of the Finalist's Entry at the 2012 Venice Film Festival.



Contest Requirements:
  • Open to registered users of the YouTube website, 18 years old at the time of joining

Contest Mechanics:
  1. Log on to YouTube Your Film Festival channel
  2. Submit an original video which celebrates the power of storytelling with a focus on creativity and narrative
  3. Entry Guidelines
    • Original, newly-created Entries, or original, previously-created Entries which have not been distributed to the public prior to January 1, 2010
    • Maximum of fifteen (15) minutes, including any titles and/or credits
    • Chosen finalists must be prepared to submit a development concept for the Winner's Project (each a "Concept") which is intended to be used as an additional criterion in the judging process by the Festival Jury in order to determine the Grand Prize Winner
    • Entries may be submitted in one of the eleven (11) approved languages
  4. Upload the video on your YouTube account formatted and encoded in accordance to YouTube's requirements
  5. Top ten (10) entries per geographic region will be designated as "Potential Semi-finalists"
  6. Additional ten (10) entries per geographic region will be designated as "Potential Alternate Semi-finalists"
  7. Your entries must have the YouTube embedding functionality turned "on"
  8. Do not disable monetization of your entry
  9. Entries of the semi-finalists will be publicly displayed on the competition channel and other platforms
  10. Encourage everyone to vote for your entry via your YouTube website community
  11. View complete contest mechanics

Contest Period: February 2, 2012 - September 3, 2012 11:59 PM
  • Important Dates
    • Open Call for Entries: February 2- March 31, 2012, 11:59 AM
    • Competition Entities' Selection of Potential Semi-finalist Videos: April 1 - April 15, 2012, 11:59 AM
    • Potential Semi-finalist Notification and Eligibility Confirmation Period: April 16 - May 28, 2012, 12 NN
    • Semi-finalists' Entries Posted to Competition Channel: June 1, 2012
    • Public Voting Period by YouTube User Community: June 1 - June 13, 2012, 11:59 AM
    • Finalists Announced: August 1, 2012
    • Finalist' Entries Screened at Festival and Evaluated by Festival Jury: September 1-3, 2012
    • Announcement of Grand Prize Winner: September 3, 2012
Contest Prize:
  • Grand Prize - One (1) winner of:
    • $500,000 USD production grant
    • Access to Production Company in order to create a new short film or series intended for online distribution
  • Finalists' Prize
    • Each finalist will receive a 6-day/5-night trip to Venice, Italy for the screening of the Finalist's Entry at the 2012 Venice Film Festival

Upside

  • Huge production prize
  • A chance to go to Venice, Italy
  • Online submission
  • No purchase or payment upon joining
Downside
  • International competition
For more information, log on to youtube.com/yourfilmfestival