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Picture Show Panic does not own your submitted work. Picture Show Panic will never hold any rights to your film. We don't want it, nor do we deserve it. We will respect your rights as filmmakers. Take your film to a thousand film festivals, use your film to advertise on a million Youtube channels and get that Hollywood deal. Picture Show Panic will wish you the best. We just want to use your film in our humble film festival.
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Films must not exceed 15 minutes long with all credits included. We do accept unrated pieces, but please refrain from blatant pornography and racist material.
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Submitting your work to Picture Show Panic will allow the use of your film (if chosen) to be added together with the other winning entries to create one feature-length presentation that will be shown ONLY at The Prop Con from October 3rd - October 4th. The shorts will be melded together in an "anthology" style film. All credits will remain. We will not edit your feature in any way. We made add a minor transitions between the films to act as a buffer before showing the next one. This "anthology" will not be made for sale or distributed in any way.
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Submitting your work will allow Picture Show Panic to use your film in advertising purposes across any and all media channels Picture Show Panic & The Prop Con deems appropriate. We will advertise heavily via social media (Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, etc). We will also link to whichever social media channels you supply. Submitting your work and participating, if chosen grants Picture Show Panic permission to interview you on audio and video for promotional purposes and documentary purposes. We would love to hear from the creative face behind the camera and the craft.
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Picture Show Panic will provide no compensation to use your creative work. Picture Show Panic will not reimburse for travel and expenses associated with attending this festival. However, each finalist will be given "Official Picture Show Panic Selection" Laurels for future use in other festivals and promo material.
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Submitting your work to Picture Show Panic means you own all rights to the content featured and used in your production. That means all the effects, music, video is yours and yours alone. We would prefer not to police the content. If you are using music or video assets and they don’t belong to you, simply provide releases to Picture Show Panic. If your film is selected we will then send you the appropriate release forms.
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Films MUST be less than 15 MINUTES in length. Anything over 15 minutes will be automatically rejected even if it was directed by John Carpenter himself….Well….
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Prize money is not guaranteed and is subject to change based on minimum amount of amount of submissions received.
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Location of event is subject to change. In the event the venue changes, finalists will be notified a minimum of 1 month in advance via email to coordinate attendance if desired.
