Sci-fest - The Prizes and Rules

[Jarred Land]

BEST SCREENPLAY PRIZE

CMessineo over at Off Stage Films is offering a copy of "Hollywood Screenwriter" software to the Best Screenplay of Sci-Fest.

BEST EDIT

Sony Media has offered a copy of Sony Vegas+DVD for the best Edit.



The Rules:

* Use a DVX100 or HVX200, shoot 24p and 16x9 (either squeeze or letterbox)

* Films made with other cameras will be accepted for exhibition, but not competition.

* Films must be 6 minutes or less

* Your film must be Science Fiction

* Films must be made between October 19, 2005 and January 31, 2006.

* No copyright violations, you *must* use licensed or royalty-free music

* No previous entries in DVXfest are allowed, this must be a new film

* Movies must be Quicktime or WMV format, 60MB Max.

* DVXuser will host Film Entries.

* All entries are due by midnight on January 31, 2006

* The festival judging is only open to current DVXuser members with more than 100 posts. To Enter a film, you need at least 1 post. You may not recruit family or friends vote for your film. Until the voting is complete and closed, filmmakers may not promote their films on DVXUser or *any* external web site, or use any other means of promotion. Films will be judged exclusively on merit by DVXuser members.

* All entries must send a DVD with an AVI or MOV DV file of completed film via mail by Feb 14, 2006 to be used on an upcoming Festival DVD.

* Violation of these rules may result in disqualification of an entry.

* Qualifying films will be screened and voted on by DVXuser.com members.

Start getting your films together, we will have an upload area and entry form plus an address to send the DVD's sometime in the first week of December.


ABOUT QUANTUM STREAMING

As many of you may remember the massive server failure situation due to the enormous volume of downloads we experienced with Zombiefest, we have worked with ITIVA to resolve this, and are excited to present the Sci-fest online viewing with ITIVA's new Quantum Streaming. This new immediate streaming technology will allow us to host Better Quality Entries, that streams instantly and the performance actually improves with the amount of simultaneous viewers, well still protecting the owner's content. Quantum Streaming is expected to be publicly available mid next year, and DVXuser is excited to be one of the first resources to test this revolutionary new service.

[Barry_Green]

H O L E Y
S M O K E S.

Those prizes are better than the ZombieFest!

[SilverWolf]

Wow !!!
is your old dvx an original or A?

[Ralph Oshiro]

WOW! I'm really hoping to win SECOND PLACE, now! CineBags ROCK!

[GLF]

haha yeah, i hope we get second place too

www.giantleapfilms.com

[xl70e3]

Original... Still, awesome!

[eignacio]

Hey Jarred,
Does your dvx come with a letter of authenticity? I've got a feeling that it's going to be a collectors item. That's your very 1st dvx right?

[MattinSTL]

Are you SERIOUS?! Uh... wow...

Well this thread is gonna' be 200 replies long in no time... I guess I'm lucky I made the first page...

Jeez I gotta' make some calls.

[Andrew Brinkhaus]

WHAT!! An actual DVX! hahaha! that is very motivating! Myabe i'll join up...

[HorseFilms]

Now I might have to come up with something. Awesome.