You must be at least 18 years of age and a legal resident of the fifty (50) United States or the District of Columbia, the United Kingdom, or Canada (excluding Quebec). The submission window will close at 11:59PM PT on January 31, 2024. All materials must be fully submitted by the deadline.

All submissions must be your own original work and/or you must have all rights necessary to submit.

Submissions with non-English dialogue must include subtitles.

Submitted films must be at least 1 minute in length but no more than 15 minutes in length, including title cards. Creator credits should be included in the work itself.

Short may not contain, and you (and, if an eligible minor, your parent or legal guardian) hereby represent and warrant that it does not contain, any content that:

• includes music for which you cannot grant the rights set forth in the Grant of Rights to Entries set forth below (Skybound reserves the right to require proof in a form acceptable to Skybound);

• infringes upon the copyrights, trademarks, rights of privacy, publicity or other intellectual property or other rights of any person or entity;

• contains copyrighted materials owned by others (including music, lyrics, dialogue), without permission to the extent permission is necessary;

• contains any personal identification, such as license plate numbers, personal names, e-mail addresses or street addresses;

• contains the names or voices of any person, or otherwise identifies any person, including, without limitation, celebrities and/or other public or private figures, living or dead, without permission, to the extent permission is necessary; 

• violates any law, rule or regulation.