Rules

• One category: grade 8-12
• Team size minimum: 2 members
• Team size maximum: 8 members
• Films MUST be produced, directed, planned and executed entirely by STUDENT team members.
• The involvement of parents, teachers, professionals, or mentors is limited to non-creative roles such as funding or acting as small roles within the short film.
• Participants who are not in grades 8-12 must be indicated on the registration form. 
• All competing teams must pre-register.
• WE STRONGLY ADVISE STUDENT GROUPS TO FOLLOW COVID-19 GUIDELINES TO MINIMIZE CONTACT AND RISK OF EXPOSURE BETWEEN EVERYONE.

• Submissions MUST be at least 30-second in length and at most 6 minutes in length (including title and credits).
• ALL shorts MUST be in relation to the poster presented on our webpage on December 20th at 8:00 AM (PST). Any genre of film is allowed.
• All short films must be submitted to our webpage (a portal will open up on December 20th) by midnight December 27th.
• If your short film includes content which may be inappropriate to an audience of grade 8-12 students (e.g. use of firearms, graphic content, offensive language), please request for special permission to submit the short. 
• By entering the festival you are granting Collingwood school and MORVENFEST non-exclusive rights to retain an archive copy of your production for the purposes of exhibition, promotion, and education.​
• The thumbnail of your short film is your choice, it does not have to be the poster that we present.
• All teams must register before the deadline to receive the link for submissions and our free participation rewards.

**Note: Morvenfest and Collingwood school is not responsible for securing permits to film in public spaces. Obtaining said permits is the sole responsibility of each individual team. 

THE USE OF ANY MATERIAL WITHOUT THE EXPRESSED PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER (S) IS ILLEGAL AND WILL RESULT IN DISQUALIFICATION. By entering MORVENFEST, you are officially declaring that the material in your production is either entirely original or obtained with proper, legal permission. 

Please visit our "Home" page to contact us in regards to MORVENFEST rules.