2. A member of the competing team must attend the genre pulling to check in their team on the 23^rd of August at 6:30pm at the Directors Guild of Cyprus at Othellou 27, Nicosia 1016, Cyprus
3. Submissions must be uploaded by each team by Sunday, September 25th at 9:00 p.m. (Some time can be allowed to go extra to compensate for upload times) via the 48 hour film section on our FilmFreeway Page
   

   If technical problems arise, upload to wetransfer.com and send it to film@cypruscomiccon.org

I. Times and Dates

• The CCC 48 Hour Film Challenge Competition (“Competition”) is open to teams of anyone interested in partaking.
• The CCC 48 Hour Film Challenge Competition takes place August 23 – 25 starting on Friday, August 23^nd at 8:30pm for time and concluding on Sunday, August 25^th at 8:30pm. This is the “Cyprus Comic Con 48 Film ChallengeTime Period.” .
•  Only works that meet the deadline will be eligible to win the competition.
•  Teams providing late submissions are advised to email film@cypruscomiccon.org with an explanation of reasons for the late submission.

II. Creative Work 

ALL CREATIVE WORK MUST BE DONE WITHIN THE “Cyprus Comic Con 48 Film ChallengeTime Period”. “Creative work” is defined as:

• Writing the script
• Rehearsing
• Costume/Set Design
• Shooting
• Editing
• Sound Design
• Rendering
• Exporting media in a form for submission

III. Pre-Competition Work

The only work to begin prior to the “Cyprus Comic Con 48 Film Challenge Time Period” is:

• Organizing Crew
• Organizing Cast
• Securing Equipment
• Scouting/Securing Locations

IV. Sources of Footage

• All footage must be shot within the “Cyprus Comic Con 48 Film Challenge Time Period.”
• No stock footage or footage shot or created at another time may be used.
• Animation and special effects are permitted.
• NOTE: Stock footage is permissible as part of a post-production effect or on a background monitor, i.e., a television, as long as the team has rights to the stock footage and the stock footage is placed over or under footage that is shot within the Challenge Time Period. Allowable stock footage includes bullets, fires, explosions, chromakeyed backgrounds, etc. Stock footage that plays a significant role in the story is not allowed.
• Still photographs are permitted, provided that the team has the rights to them. The photos do not need to have been created during the Challenge Time Period.

V. Kickoff

A member of the competing team must attend the lot pulling at the 23rd of August at 6:30pm to check in their team at the Directors Guild of Cyprus at Οθέλλου 27, Nicosia 1016, Cyprus

VII. Content Requirements

• Each participating group will be assigned required elements that must appear in its film, such as a Genre, a Character, a Prop and/or a Line of Dialogue.
• The required Character and Prop must be seen on-screen.
• The required Line of Dialogue must be used verbatim. It may be spoken, sung and/or written. It may be in any language but will need to be translated and/or subtitled to clearly demonstrate its use.
• In order for a film to qualify for the competition, each team’s film must be in the genre assigned to it and must contain all required elements within the official time limit and prior to the credits. The Film 48 organizers have sole discretion to determine if an entry meets all the eligibility requirements.

VII. Team Size

• Each team must have a minimum of 1 member to be eligible to compete in the CCC 48 Hour Film Challenge Competition. A maximum of ten members will also be enforced. All members must be listed on the competition registration form before the start of the competition.

VIII. Camera Use

• Any type of video, animation or film camera may be used. There is no limit to the number of cameras.

IX. Music 

• Participating groups may work with a composer and/or musicians to write and record original music for the films. It is permissible for a participating group to use pre-recorded music, assuming they have copyright clearance to include it. In the absence of a composer, we recommend using free public domain music.  Use of original music will be taken into account during judging.

X. Total Running Time

• The finished film must be a minimum of two (2) minutes in duration, and within a maximum of seven (7) minutes in duration, not including end credits. (In other words, the official running time begins after the required slates and ends prior to the end credits.

  XI.  Submission Requirements  

• Submissions must be uploaded by each team to the submission site by Sunday,  August 25th at 9:00 p.m. local time either via the 48 hour film section in our Film Freeway Section: https://filmfreeway.com/CyprusComicConFilmFest or if technical problems arise, through https://wetransfer.com/ transfer of the mp4 to film@cypruscomiccon.org.
• If your film is very dark, it may be difficult to see during the screening.
• All films received on the evening of the deadline will be screened, presuming they do not violate any of the submission criteria.  However, only those films submitted prior to or at the deadline will be eligible for winning in the Competition.

XII. Original Content

• To be eligible for the competition, Entries must be the original work of those persons comprising the Entrant; must not infringe third-parties’ rights; must be suitable for publication (i.e., may not contain obscene, pornographic or indecent material); must not contain defamatory statements about any person, company, organization or entity; must  not invade privacy or other rights of any person, company or entity; must  not in any other way violate applicable laws and regulations; and must not contain any copyrighted elements (other than as owned one or more members of the participating group Entrant). Entries containing prohibited or inappropriate content as determined by CCC 48 Hour Film Challenge organizers in their sole discretion, will be disqualified. CCC 48 Hour Film Challenge reserves the right to make the final determination as to which entries are eligible.

XII. About AI Submissions

You may use AI (Artificial Intelligence) in the creation of your film, subject to the following guidelines:

1. Aspects of your film can be done with assistance of AI but cannot be fully AI generated from start to finish.
2. You may only use AI in ways that are legal in your jurisdiction.
3. You may not use AI to create any part of your entry prior to the Official Time Period.
4. You must have the rights to all work including work created with AI. In other words, any AI generated material that uses copyrighted material for which the filmmaker does not have a release is not permitted. (As an example, using a screenshot from the movie Pulp Fiction to create a new image is prohibited.)