Alice Film Festival Official Rules 

The following categories represent the rules that will be used during the administration of the contest. Please contact the organizers if clarification is desired on any rule.

Submission Rules

1. All submissions must represent an original creation. Any submissions that are derived from the work of others (e.g., taken from a website) will be disqualified with no refund on the registration fee. The organizers are aware of several existing sources of example Alice programs and will check to ensure the originality of each submission.

2. The pre-registration deadline is April 1st. All movies must be submitted electronically by April 14th.

3. After pre-registration, all participants will be informed of the procedure for submitting their .a2w file at our website.

4. If your program requires a song to be played in the background, please write to the organizers before submitting. If your audio file represents copyrighted material, please do not send that to us. Instead, provide the name and artist and we will purchase a legal copy of the song.

5. Each participant is allowed just one individual submission. In addition, each student may also participate in only one team submission.

General Information

1. Although the organizers can help with general questions about the contest, we are not able to help you debug or offer comment on your programs prior to the submission deadline.

2. Seniors who will graduate in 2008 are welcome to participate. Also, elementary and middle school participants are welcome. A separate category for judging may be created if  more than 5 submissions are received from elementary/middle school students.

3. The duration of a movie must not exceed 1 minute. Any part of the movie that is longer than 1 minute will be ignored during judging and not displayed during the presentation session.

4. All movies will be shown during the festival from 1pm-3pm. Those movies that are given an award will be shown a second time during the awards ceremony.

5. Those receiving an award must be present at the awards ceremony or the award will be given to another student.

1. The High School Programming Contest is a very objective contest that is based on time and correctness of a solution. However, the Alice Film Festival is more subjective and relies on the personal opinions of judges.
2. Each submission will be reviewed blindly. That is, the judges will not know the name or affiliation of the students associated with specific submissions.
3. Judges will evaluate each submission according to the following four criteria (each criteria weighed equally, from 1 to 10 points):
   
   Originality: This criteria evaluates a submission with respect to the uniqueness of the movie compared to other movies that were submitted.
   Creativity: Creativity assesses the degree of imagination exhibited in the movie storyline.
   Technicality: The technicality score awards points to those programs that demonstrate a deep knowledge of Alice to accomplish some clever effect in the movie.
   Overall: The overall score represents the evaluation of the movie with respect to things such as smooth transition among different scenes and overall understandability of the meaning of the movie.