Dragon Con's Fandom Music Video Awards are back!
This is a video editing competition where participants create music videos featuring their favorite fandoms and media (including but not limited to Live Action Movies & Shows, Cartoons & Comics, Anime & Manga, Video Games, and Cosplay).
2025 FMV Submission Form
Rules and Guidelines
General:
- 1) Entries must comply with the Basic & Auxiliary guidelines outlined in the A-M-V.org CONGRSS Rules
2) The Fandom Music Video Awards accepts submissions from all forms of media and fandoms. This includes but isn’t limited to Live Action Movies & Shows, Cartoons & Comics, Anime & Manga, Video Games, and Cosplay.
3) Entries must be shorter than 6 minutes and longer than 45 seconds.
4) Entrants are allowed to submit (1) video per category and to a maximum of (3) categories. A specific video can not be submitted to more than one category.
5) All submissions must be sent by Thursday, July 31st, 2025 at 11:59 pm (EST).
Entrants can select the best-fit category for their submission, but if our judges strongly disagree, it may be moved to a better-fitting category.
Adrenaline - Showcase excitement and adrenaline-filled action.
Tribute - Capture the essence of a character, franchise, or something meaningful to a fandom.
Shipping - Portray romantic relationships between characters (Both canon and non-canon ships are allowed)
Suspense - Invoke a sense of dread and anticipation from the audience.
Upbeat - Entertain us with fun energy and good vibes
Drama - Convey a heavily dramatic event, emotion, or situation.
Humor - Amuse us with your sense of humor.
File Formats:
MP4 is the preferred file type, and entries should be in a resolution of 720 or 1080P. We strongly discourage submitting any other media type.
Judging:
Our Judges will select the top videos from each category and screen them during the convention. Finalists will be announced and notified via email about a week after the submission deadline. During the Contest screening (August 31st, 2024), Dragon Con attendees will then vote for the winners of each category. Finalists will receive a free 1-Day (Sunday) membership to Dragon Con 2025. Offer is exclusive to Sunday, is non-transferable, non-refundable, and can not be exchanged, or combined with other memberships
Submissions:
2025 FMV Submission Form
The form requires you to provide a download link of your video via a file-sharing service like Google Drive or Dropbox. Please ensure that the URL is a “shared” or “public” link. If your video meets the necessary rules and requirements, a confirmation email will be sent to you within 3 days. At any time, we reserve the right not to show or ultimately disqualify any video for any reason.
Contact:
If you have questions, you can contact us at anime-manga@dragoncon.org
About Dragon Con:
Dragon Con is an annual 5-day multi-media, pop culture convention held in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. In 2024, Dragon Con welcomed over 72,000 attendees and is currently one of the largest fan conventions in North America! Dragon Con 2025 will take place from August 28th – September 1st.
More information about Dragon Con can be found here: DragonCon.org
