Filmmaking Frenzy: Time Travel is Fantastic

Fantastic Fest, The Alamo Drafthouse and Badass Digest are thrilled to present the Fantastic Fest 2012 Bumper Contest! Every year Fantastic Fest hosts a bumper creation contest where we invite YOU to create the most outrageous and entertaining thirty second video possible. We use as many entries as we can and play different bumpers onscreen before every single screening during the festival with two goals in mind: 1) to represent the creativity (and often bizarre sense of humor) of the Fantastic Fest community and 2) to ensure that unlike other festivals, the audience at Fantastic Fest won’t have to sit through the same six or seven bumpers over and over again.

Your bumper can be almost anything you can imagine, but we have three ground rules:

1. The theme this year is Time Travel Is Fantastic. Feel free to interpret that in whatever manner you choose.
2. The video must be between 15 seconds and 45 seconds.
3. The last line of dialogue or narration in the video must be, “That’s fantastic!”

All film entries must be submitted by 11:59 PM CST on September 15 to be eligible.

All 2012 Fantastic Fest bumper videos selected by our programming committee will be screened in front of an unsuspecting audience during Fantastic Fest (September 20-27, 2012). Each of those audiences will include visiting filmmakers from around the world, press from the likes of Badass Digest, IFC, TwitchFilm, Fangoria, SlashFilm, Film Threat, Ain’t It Cool News, Variety, USA Today and more, plus a legion of the most devoted and intelligent genre film fans on the planet.

The Fantastic Fest programming committee will select the Top 4 bumper finalists, and members of the Filmmaking Frenzy voting community will select the 5^th finalist. The Top 5 bumpers will play at the Fantastic Fest 2012 Awards Ceremony, and the audience will select the grand prize winner. That winner will receive two VIP badges to Fantastic Fest 2013! These VIP badges are always sold out by the end of the previous year’s festival, and they are seriously hot ticket items. VIP Badges include an exclusive limited edition t-shirt and poster, plus a souvenir Fantastic Fest shoulder bag filled with tons of fun swag. The main benefit of the VIP badge, however, is guaranteed admission to the movie of your choice at any given showtime for next year’s Fantastic Fest.

Good luck and be fantastic!

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Voting: Audience voting on this site will determine our fifth finalist, but the top four bumper finalists will be picked by our Fantastic Fest programming committee. For more, see the official terms and conditions here.

Tech Specs:

• Must keep your submission under 45 seconds in length with a minimum running time of 15 seconds.
• Film's aspect ratio must be 1.77:1

Content:

• The last line of dialogue or narration in the video must be, "That's fantastic!"

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