Entries
The competition is designed for the convenience of the entrant. If you have multiple entries, please attach a copy of Form A to each entry. Submit only one copy of each entry. There are no special labeling or color bar requirements. Since each entry is judged on its own merits, no accompanying materials are necessary.
Please submit entries on DVD, CD, VHS or Beta SP. For web site entries, provide a URL address on the entry form or submit on CD or DVD. Multiple commercials can be added to one DVD or tape, individual programs should be on their own DVD or tape.
An entry may be submitted in more than one category at an additional cost. However, it is not necessary to send an additional copy for each category.
Eligibility
The competition is open to all individuals, companies and organizations involved in producing any type of project involving moving pictures for external or internal audiences. To be eligible, an entry must have been produced after January 1, 2006 (almost a 2-year window).
Entry Fee
Ava Awards is trying to keep entry fees at reasonable levels. Instead of charging several hundred dollars per entry, the entry fee is $60 per category. Rather than increase the fee for each entry, an administration fee is being charged to help offset increasing overhead such as printing, mailing and data entry. Each entrant is charged a $25 AMCP administration fee. By charging each entrant the same administration fee, entrants entering more than one category will be paying less than if the entry fee were increased.
If an entry is submitted in more than one category, please enclose an additional entry fee for each time it is entered.
Pro Bono Entries
AMCP recognizes the talents and generosity of the creative community and does not charge for entries produced pro bono for outside non-profits. Only entrants who enter a regular piece in the competition are eligible to enter pro bono work at no cost. This is a perk for those who help defray costs of overhead, mailings, judging etc.
You can only have one pro bono entry per client. Multiple pieces count as one entry. You can however have an unlimited number of pro bono clients. Please fill out the pro bono form found on this page and include a brief synopsis of what you did for each pro bono client. You should not have received any compensation. It is ok for the non-profit or others to have paid for hard costs such as materials. You will be judged on creativity and the extent of your effort.
If you want to submit pro bono work only, you must pay the regular AMCP and entry fees.
Deadline
Entries should be postmarked by Fall 2008. If you need an extension, call 817-276-9829 or Email info@avaawards.com.
Privacy Notice
Since many of the entries are internal or proprietary in nature, or are done for the government or another company, only the judges see entries. Immediately after judging, each entry is destroyed. No entrant information is sold, traded, displayed, made available to a third party or used for any other purpose. AMCP assumes that you have rights to materials and the authority to enter them, so you do not need to enclose that information with your entries.