Long form AMV contests?

[kim_I_am]

First I want to acknowledge that I understand perfectly well why most AMV contests have a hard limit for length, usually 5 mins. If you're going to have to sift through thousands of entries you need a limit just to make it possible, but all the songs I'm planning on working with usually come out to just past 5 mins up to 7 mins, and I'm not going to stop because it's fun. I was just wondering if there were any contests with a focus on longer dramatic or storytelling vids so I can try try cutting my teeth.

[troubleclef]

Generally, these AMV contests are held at conventions, where they are given limited time to showcase all the entries. So the like 5 min max is a balance measure to ensure that they can showcase more videos.

I do know that Nekokitkat is running a casual competition geared towards longer videos. As for those without a max limit, off the top of my head Anime Weekend Atlanta and Youmacon might be worth checking out.

[kim_I_am]

Thanks for a direction to look. I'll check those out.

[PrincessMareep]

You can enter NekoCon's but after the 5min 30sec mark, the video may be judged a bit more harshly.