Complete Rules You must upload a digital film 1 to 3 minutes in length. You must be a registered member of Filmaka to upload a film through our site. Membership is free. Click here to register on Filmaka. You must submit your film through the Filmaka website upload page. Click here to go to this page. Submission to this competition is free. Submissions are due by July 28 at 24:00 Hours Pacific Standard Time. When uploading your film, you must supply your name, the film title, and a 2 sentence logline for the film. The 15 finalist filmmakers will be alerted via email and will need to provide a brief autobiography (220 to 275 characters). Please make sure to keep the likely rating of your content equal to or less restrictive than “R” rated. Being a global content company, we will use a mix between the US MPAA rating and the German FSK standard to decide the rating. Please make sure to have everybody who appears recognizably in your film execute a Talent Release Form. This includes people appearing as themselves in a documentary. You can download the appropriate Talent Release Form from this website. Please make sure to use our standardized Filmaka, Inc. talent release form in English for all of your actors and participants etc., No other forms will be accepted. Please make sure to have everyone who participated in the writing of the story or screenplay of your film to execute an Assignment Agreement form. You can download the appropriate Assignment Agreement form from this website. Please make sure to use our standardized Filmaka, Inc. Assignment Agreement form in English for all of your actors and participants etc., No other forms will be accepted. Please make sure that you use only self-composed and self-recorded music, or only fully licensed third party music. The music licenses must cover the publishing and the synch license. You can download the appropriate Music Release form from this website. Please make sure to use our standardized Filmaka, Inc. Music Release form in English. No other forms will be accepted. Please make sure to keep the master tape/DVD that contains your work professionally stored at all times. Please make sure to deliver at the appropriate time your master and any copies/dupes you have made of the master to Filmaka.com at the below address. Filmaka, Inc. 7955 W. 3rd Street Los Angeles, CA 90048 USA Please note that upon the upload of your work, you are granting certain rights in your work to Filmaka, Inc. in accordance with the applicable terms and conditions. Click Here to read the Terms and Conditions for What On Earth Is Going On?   Submission Requirements Please carefully note the following technical specifications: WMV V9 (Windows Media Video, Version 9) is the preferred file format for submitting to What On Earth Is Going On? We also accept most other digital movie formats including .mov (Quicktime), .flv (Flash), .mp4 (MPEG4), and .mp2 (MPEG2). NO MATTER WHAT FORMAT YOU SUBMIT TO US IN, OUR MINIMUM PICTURE QUALITY REQUIREMENTS ARE: Resolution: 4:3 frame ratio – 540 pixels X 405 pixels or 16:9 frame ratio – 720 pixels X 405 pixels Data Rate: 1500 Kbps to 2.000 Mbps Frame Rate: Current (at least 24 fps, preferably 30 fps) Sound: AAC, 48.000 kHz, Mono/Stereo, Best Quality, Bit rate 128kbps or better File Size: We prefer files over 100mb but not larger than 500mb If you have any questions about these requirements, Please Click Here to email us.