Theme:
“How is your life online shaping the relationships you have offline?”
Guidelines
• Filmmakers must be Texas students in grades 9 – 12.
• The video may not exceed 3 minutes, excluding credits.
• Open to individuals and student groups.
• High school teams must have a teacher or an adult sponsor to serve as an advisor.
• Videos must be student created and edited.
• Students are responsible for providing their own equipment (in most cases, the school’s equipment) to produce this video.
• The video can be staged as a short play, commercial, news broadcast, talk show, music video, documentary, or any other format.
• The video must adhere to the Student Code of Conduct.
• No profanity. If interviewees use profanity, it must be bleeped.
• The video may not use copyrighted materials from outside sources without proper citation and permission.
• The video must include credits listing the people who contributed to the making of the video and acknowledging their support, including those who wrote the script, held the camera, directed, edited, acted, and produced the video. If interviewees are filmed, they must be credited.
• While students may use generative AI tools in conceptualizing their film's direction, the content that is submitted (e.g. script and/or visuals presented) must be their own.
Entry Limits
A student may be a team member of no more than two video submissions.
Sponsor
Healthy Futures of Texas is a non-partisan, non-profit organization that seeks to improve the well-being of young Texans through access to sexual health education and resources. Visit us at https://www.hftx.org
Purpose
This contest open to high school students. Videos will be shared with the greater community to raise awareness of the issues Healthy Futures of Texas addresses.
Judging Criteria
This is a juried competition. The criteria is as follows: 30% for creativity; 20% for technical merit (editing and film quality); 20% for clarity of message; and 30% for responsiveness to theme.
Finalists will be announced in early April and winners will be announced at the film contest. Finalists should be prepared to participate on a panel at the April film screening.
Deadline
Video entries must be uploaded by 11:59 p.m. on March 23, 2026. Entry forms must be received by the same date and time.
Entry Forms
• Student Registration Form
• Media Consent Form for each person appearing in submission
