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📝REGISTRATION: 
*Registration is online only 
  • Student Filmmakers (under 18 or currently in high school): No registration fee required.
  • Adult Filmmakers (18 and older, not in high school): $20 registration fee due at the link provided.
  • ​Deadline to register is March 5th.

📽️THEME: “Laughter is the Best Medicine”
Details:
While not necessarily the creation of a comedy film, your film should incorporate a theme that pays tribute to the healing power of laughter, or perhaps the absence of laughter and its derogatory effects. Alternately, you may choose to incorporate humor in whatever ways you wish throughout your film, serving as an example of laughter itself. 

📽️CONTEST KICKOFF INFO
At 6:00pm on Friday, March 6, participants will log on to our official website to receive the required elements for their films, including:
  • A location in Morristown, TN
  • A prop to include in your film
  • A specific line of dialogue
  • A song that must appear in your film in some way
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📽️FILM GUIDELINES
  • Length: 5–25 minutes
  • Deadline: 6:00pm on Sunday, March 8
  • Your film should be filmed, edited, and uploaded to our Google Drive or transferred from a USB device to our drop-off location (to be announced).
  • All films will be given a movie rating prior to the screening at the film festival (G, PG, PG-13, or R). Films with an R-rating will be shown after an intermission, providing individuals with children the opportunity to leave prior to their screening, if so desired.

​​📽️AWARD CATEGORIES
Categories for Adults and Students(middle and high school) 
When registering, filmmakers will provide details about their equipment and editing software.
This helps us divide participants into two fair competition levels: Regular Tech and High Tech.

AWARDS FOR:
  • Best Visual Effects
  • Best Picture
  • Best Actor
  • Best Cinematography
  • Best Use of Prop
  • Best Choice of Prop
  • Best Use of Line
  • Most Groundbreaking Film

📽️QUESTIONS:
Reach out to Michael Todd at
 [email protected]

📽️VIEWING OF THE FILMS:
Film Festival Date: Friday, March 13th
Festival Time: 7:00pm
Festival Location: Our College Square Mall Location across from American Eagle, in the old Cinema!
Admission: $5 at the door

AUDITION INFO
March 4th & 5th
5:00 to 7:30

MALES (8 roles total) 
  • 3 males, playing late 50s–early 60s
  • 5 males, playing 30s–40s

FEMALES (5 roles total) 
  • 1 female, playing late 60s 
  • 2 females, playing mid-30s–early 40s 
  • 2 females, playing early 20s

Be prepared to do cold reads from the script.
You are welcome to bring a prepared 2 min. monologue but not required.  


NO registration needed. 


📝REGISTRATION: Opens February 13th
*Registration is online only.
  • Student Filmmakers (under 18 or currently in high school): No registration fee required.
  • Adult Filmmakers (18 and older, not in high school): $20 registration fee due at the link provided.

📽️THEME: “Laughter is the Best Medicine”
Details:
Think of moments that bring people together — for better or worse.
It could be Christmas, Thanksgiving, a birthday, a wedding, an anniversary, a reunion, or any other special occasion.
Your film should capture the energy, emotion, or spirit of the day you choose.


📽️CONTEST KICKOFF INFO
At 10 AM on Friday, March 6, participants will log on to our official website to receive the required elements for their films, including:
  • A location in Morristown, TN
  • A prop to include in your film
  • A specific line of dialogue
  • A song that must appear in your film in some way
​
📽️FILM GUIDELINES
  • Length: 5–25 minutes
  • Deadline: 10 AM on Sunday, March 8
  • Your film should be filmed, edited, and uploaded to our Google Drive or transferred from a USB device to our drop-off location (to be announced) no later than 10AM on Sunday, March 8
    All films will be given a movie rating prior to the screening at the film festival (G, PG, PG-13, or R). Films with an R-rating will be shown after an intermission, providing individuals with children the opportunity to leave prior to their screening, if so desired.



​​📽️AWARD CATEGORIES
Categories for Adults and Students(middle and high school) 
When registering, filmmakers will provide details about their equipment and editing software.
This helps us divide participants into two fair competition levels: Regular Tech and High Tech.

AWARDS FOR:
  • Best Visual Effects
  • Best Picture
  • Best Actor
  • Best Cinematography
  • Best Use of Prop
  • Best Choice of Prop
  • Best Use of Line
  • Most Groundbreaking Film

📽️QUESTIONS:
Reach out to Michael Todd at
 [email protected]

📽️VIEWING OF THE FILMS:
Film Festival Date:
March 14th
Festival Time: 7:00pm
Festival Location: Our College Square Mall Location across from American Eagle, in the old Cinema!
Admission: $5 at the door

Join us at the FILM FESTIVAL as we celebrate the creativity from the
​24-HR FILM CONTEST. 

*Registration is online only.
  • Student Filmmakers (under 18 or currently in high school): No registration fee required.
  • Adult Filmmakers (18 and older, not in high school): $20 registration fee due at the link provided.

📽️THEME: “Special Days”
Details:
Think of moments that bring people together — for better or worse.

It could be Christmas, Thanksgiving, a birthday, a wedding, an anniversary, a reunion, or any other special occasion.
Your film should capture the energy, emotion, or spirit of the day you choose.

📽️CONTEST KICKOFF INFO
At 10 AM on Saturday, November 15, participants will log on to our official website to receive the required elements for their films, including:
  • A location in Morristown, TN
  • A prop to include in your film
  • A specific line of dialogue
  • A song that must appear in your film in some way
​
📽️FILM GUIDELINES
  • Length: 5–25 minutes
  • Deadline: 10 AM on Sunday, November 16
  • Your film should be filmed, edited, and uploaded to our Google Drive or transferred from a USB device to our drop-off location (to be announced) no later than 10AM on Sunday, November 16th.
    All films will be given a movie rating prior to the screening at the film festival (G, PG, PG-13, or R). Films with an R-rating will be shown after an intermission, providing individuals with children the opportunity to leave prior to their screening, if so desired.



📽️AWARD CATEGORIES
Categories for Adults and Students(middle and high school) 
When registering, filmmakers will provide details about their equipment and editing software.
This helps us divide participants into two fair competition levels: Regular Tech and High Tech.

AWARDS FOR:
  • Best Visual Effects
  • Best Picture
  • Best Actor
  • Best Cinematography
  • Best Use of Prop
  • Best Choice of Prop
  • Best Use of Line
  • Most Groundbreaking Film

📽️QUESTIONS:
Reach out to Michael Todd at
 [email protected]


📽️VIEWING OF THE FILMS:
Film Festival Date: November 22nd
Festival Time: 7:00pm
Festival Location: Our College Square Mall Location across from American Eagle, in the old Cinema!

No admission fee.  Open to the public.  
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    • And Then There Were None
    • 48-Hr Film Contest
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    • Spring Film Festival
    • Odd Couple Tickets
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