Further details and submission guidelines available at http://www.awa-con.com/index.php?page=86 and the submission system is reachable at http://www.awa-vat.orgThe goal of the Music Video Exposition has always been to give as many videos the chance to be exhibited as possible while awarding recognition to as many deserving videos as is practical.
Entries are judged by the Anime Weekend Atlanta Video Art Track Staff, taking into account primarily artistic elements. Generally only one award is given to any one person and often new awards are created on the spot for inventive entries. Judging is NOT blind due to logistical difficulties, but the staff is considered impartial enough to judge the Expo fairly. The Exposition adheres to no distinct checklist in respect to specific awards, and thus the award list changes every year. In general, however, there are usually enough applicable entries to predict awards in the areas of Best Drama, Best Comedy, Best Action, and a traditional "Grand Prize," given to the most successfully inventive, surprising, or unconventional presentation in the field.
The content we allow is pretty much wide open (mature themed material will be played during late night blocks). The only major requirement is that the total length of your submissions do not exceed 2 hours and that we have not previously received the video (or it's participating in a concurrent contest at the convention that year, ie Pro or SAST). We deal in all forms of video art, so any form of animation, foreign, domestic and original, as well as live action footage is more than welcome. This is especially true for SAST (Short Attention Span Theater).
The SAST deadline is a week later than Expo (all entries must be registered on the website by August 22, 2008).A contest of absurdly short anime music videos judged by audience ballot and screened first thing at AWA's AMV awards ceremony! Taking inspiration from the hilarious and popular AMV Hell multi-editor collaborations, we’re petitioning super-short videos from AMVers, whether they be segments of longer videos, brief novelty songs, previews, advertisements, or segments of dialogue from other features, send them along! We’ll assemble them into a continuous-contest format and screen them during the awards ceremony in main. Judging will be conducted via audience vote on supplied ballots, enabling us to announce the winner by the end of the AMV awards screening.
