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2020 Brickfilmers Guild Film Festival Rules
2020 Brickfilmer’s Guild Film Festival entry period is over.
Judges Scorecards are above.
HERE is the playlist of the entries. Two entries are not included on the playlist. One is a Vimeo entry and the other is a YouTube entry with "made for kids" settings.
The following judges have returned a completed score card.
thefourmonkeys (Dave Smith)
thefourmonkeys (Kim Smith)
Annoying Noises Productions (Harrison Allen)
Aiwha (Bruno Lefèvre)
Scorch Bricks (Tom Johnson)
Frame5 Studios (Austin Garber)
SuitedNinjaNerd Studios (Trevor Stevens)
Legostudio01 (Alexander Leitner)
Silly Penta (Seán Willis)
The registration period of the 2020 Brickfilmer's Guild Film Festival is over. The BFG Film Festival is an online brickfilming festival that will showcase some of the best brickfilms of 2020. We invite all BFG members to submit their best brickfilm of 2020. Your entry can be a brickfilm that has already been made, or one you make just for this festival, as long as it is published in 2020. You have until the end of the year to submit your brickfilm.
As it was successful last year, we will again use the larger invite of judges and the shortened judging duration. All judging will be complete by February 1, 2021. Member’s Choice and BFG 2020 Brickfilmer of the Year voting by BFG members will have the same deadline. The list of festival entries will be made available January 1, 2021 in the form of a playlist on Brickfilmer’s Guild YouTube Channel and judges score cards will be made available on the BFG website.
Main Categories: (Categories judged by participating invited judges)
-Best Story and Screenplay
-Best Cinematography *
-Best Scenic Design (using LEGO or other building bricks)*
-Best Animation *
-Best Visual Effects (Either practical or digitally made special effects)
-Best Sound Design
-Best Original Music Score (must fill in a box with the name of the composer(s) and note if Filmstro or similar service is used)
-Best Voice Acting
-Best Brickfilm of Festival *
*must have 50% stop motion at minimum to be eligible for categories (50% does not include title and credits).
Non-main categories include:
-Best Brickfilm that includes the BFG logo - Judged by Dave & Kim Smith of thefourmonkeys
-BFG Members Choice - All members of the Brickfilmer’s Guild are invited to vote
-Honorable Mention Categories (categories vary each year) - Judged by Dave & Kim Smith
Rules:
1. Submit your brickfilm by the deadline.
2. Your brickfilm must be uploaded in the year 2020, no exceptions. The YouTube (or Vimeo) video must have a 2020 date. The deadline for submissions is 12:01 A.M. GMT, January 1, 2021.
3. Your entry does not have to be made for this festival, but if you include the BFG logo in the first 5 seconds of your brickfilm, it will make you eligible for the "Best Entry with BFG Logo" category. This category will be judged by Dave & Kim Smith only. BFG logo can be either static logo or CGI animated sequence.
Static Logo: http://www.brickfilmersguild.com/uploads/4/4/2/4/44245419/bfg_logo_large.jpg
Or….
CGI animated sequence: http://www.brickfilmersguild.com/uploads/4/4/2/4/44245419/bfg_logo_3d_v3.mov
4. The principle animation technique must be stop motion or LEGO “brickfilm” inspired CGI. Entries with less than 50% stop motion will not be eligible to be judged in the Cinematography, Best Scenic Design, Best Animation, and Best Brickfilm of Festival categories.
5. Your entry must be under 15 minutes long or be granted a long brickfilm waiver by BFG Advisors. If you enter a film that is over 15 minutes and it is not granted a waiver, you will have the opportunity to enter a different film.
6. You can enter only one brickfilm. No substitutions are allowed after entry has been submitted unless it is not granted a length waiver (see rule #5). It is very easy to enter the contest, but choose your brickfilm entry wisely. You have until the end of the year to enter your film. If you collaborate on brickfilms, the films must be published on different YouTube channels. No one channel may enter multiple brickfilms.
7. Violence with blood is allowed. Guns, knives, and all other weapons are allowed.
8. Offensive language will be tolerated, but could hurt your score if not used in a necessary manner or if any particular judges find it overly offensive.
9. No sexually offensive material allowed.
10. No offensive racist material will be accepted.
11. Use of licensed themes and/or music is allowed.
12. Only Brickfilmer's Guild members may enter. Link to membership form.
13. Some community sourced mega-collaborations are not eligible to enter. Brickfilms in which many individual contributors are in charge of their own animation, set, cinematography, etc. are not eligible for entry. Individuals may enter their portion of collaboration if they want. If you are not sure about your film, ask on Discord, Twitter, or Email.
Prizes:
We will continue the tradition that was started a few years ago. There will be no physical prizes awarded to the winners. Winning and being nominated for anything in this festival is the prize itself, however the winner of "Best Film" and “Member’s Choice” will be added to the list of past winners in the BFG Library.
If your entry is accepted, your name will be added to the "Accepted Entries" list HERE:
1. GUATEMAX Animations
2. Brickfield54
3. Yan's Aphira
4. Paolo Mura
5. Sonjira
6. Locker 74 Productions
7. SplitterShot
8. France & Alex
9. Frontloaderman
10. Oli-AG
11. Spudson
12. Blazable
13. James Cawood
14. Monday Pictures
15. JO Co
16. MindGame Studios
17. Bricks and Pieces
18. Joebor1777
19. starwarsstudio100
20. Silleck Family Productions
21. Brotherhood Workshop
22. Studios Epsilon
23. Monitogo Studios
24. Pongowl
25. LOTW Studios
26. AoW-Gamer
27. m1kut
28. Bad Brick Creatives
29. Calmax Film
30. Knauser
31. TheBohrokMan
32. Yetgo
33. Altlandstudios
34. Kev1n’s Lego Films
35. Jacob Crow
36. Joshua Nelson Animations
37. Gold Brick Productions
38. Brickstorming
39. Toon Bros
40. AnyBrick
41. Hennison Animations
42. Legomoves
43. cgdude9
44. SuperBat Animations
45. Mosh5256
46. Eye Daziling Pictures
47. rioforce
48. Chris McNick
49. Brick Fun Park
50. Spinjitzu Master Falcon
51. Zs Group (Shahriar)
52. Smithy of Films
53. JustDKFilms
54. OneDouglas Studios
55. TwickABrick Productions
56. Plastic Point Productions
57. LetsPlayGamez
58. Cinematic Movie Maker
This is an international contest. It is helpful if your video has closed captions unless there is no dialogue. This is not a requirement, but will be very helpful for the international group of judges.
Judging:
The eligible BFG members being invited to judge festival include:
-Any past BFG Film Festival judge
-Any Past BFG Brickfilmer of the Year
-Any Past BFG Film Festival Best Brickfilm of Festival winner
-Any Past BFG Community Award Winner
-New Nominated Judge Nominated by non-returning past judge
-Past BFG Podcast Guest
-Any bronze (3rd) Community Award winner from previous year.
-Any silver (2nd) Community Award winner from previous 2 years.
-As a way to help reduce a judges time commitment, judges may quit watching any entry after 45 seconds if they feel the brickfilm has zero possibility of making the top 10 or 20 of any category. All brickfilms will be watched completely and judged by Dave & Kim Smith for “honorable mention” and “Best Brickfilm with BFG Logo” categories.
-If a judge has animated, done post production work, or writing on an entry, they are made ineligible to judge. There may be waivers depending on circumstances, so please check us if you might be ineligible and do want to judge.
Below is the list of eligible judges for Brickfilmer's Guild Film Festival:
Dave Smith (thefourmonkeys)
Kim Smith (thefourmonkeys)
Bruno Lefèvre
Shelby Pritchard
Mirko Hortzman
Paul Hollingsworth
Kevin Ulrich
James Morr
Tommy Williamson
Marc Andre Caron
Alex Kobbs
Something's Awry Productions
David Pagano
David Pickett
Seán Willis
Chris Salaisis
Forrest Whaley
Gareth Pugh
Sean Willets
Zach Macias
Maxime Marion
Steffen Troeger
Spencer Katz
Michael Hickox
Thomas Evans
David Clark
Harrison Allen
Dylan Woodley
Aaron Fisher
TofAnimation
Alex Pearson
Gus Danko
Christopher Gearhart
Akash Jones
Andreas Bitzan
Alexander Leitner
Jared Jacobs
Pongowl
Goldbrick Studios
LOTW Studios
Titan Pictures
Frame5 Studios
Bricktale Studios
DudeBrick
SuitedNinjaNerd
BrickHat Studios
Locker 74 Productions
Scorch Bricks
Rioforce (2021)
Garry Moore
Gregory Moore
Ben Young
2020 Brickfilmer’s Guild Film Festival entry period is over.
Judges Scorecards are above.
HERE is the playlist of the entries. Two entries are not included on the playlist. One is a Vimeo entry and the other is a YouTube entry with "made for kids" settings.
The following judges have returned a completed score card.
thefourmonkeys (Dave Smith)
thefourmonkeys (Kim Smith)
Annoying Noises Productions (Harrison Allen)
Aiwha (Bruno Lefèvre)
Scorch Bricks (Tom Johnson)
Frame5 Studios (Austin Garber)
SuitedNinjaNerd Studios (Trevor Stevens)
Legostudio01 (Alexander Leitner)
Silly Penta (Seán Willis)
The registration period of the 2020 Brickfilmer's Guild Film Festival is over. The BFG Film Festival is an online brickfilming festival that will showcase some of the best brickfilms of 2020. We invite all BFG members to submit their best brickfilm of 2020. Your entry can be a brickfilm that has already been made, or one you make just for this festival, as long as it is published in 2020. You have until the end of the year to submit your brickfilm.
As it was successful last year, we will again use the larger invite of judges and the shortened judging duration. All judging will be complete by February 1, 2021. Member’s Choice and BFG 2020 Brickfilmer of the Year voting by BFG members will have the same deadline. The list of festival entries will be made available January 1, 2021 in the form of a playlist on Brickfilmer’s Guild YouTube Channel and judges score cards will be made available on the BFG website.
Main Categories: (Categories judged by participating invited judges)
-Best Story and Screenplay
-Best Cinematography *
-Best Scenic Design (using LEGO or other building bricks)*
-Best Animation *
-Best Visual Effects (Either practical or digitally made special effects)
-Best Sound Design
-Best Original Music Score (must fill in a box with the name of the composer(s) and note if Filmstro or similar service is used)
-Best Voice Acting
-Best Brickfilm of Festival *
*must have 50% stop motion at minimum to be eligible for categories (50% does not include title and credits).
Non-main categories include:
-Best Brickfilm that includes the BFG logo - Judged by Dave & Kim Smith of thefourmonkeys
-BFG Members Choice - All members of the Brickfilmer’s Guild are invited to vote
-Honorable Mention Categories (categories vary each year) - Judged by Dave & Kim Smith
Rules:
1. Submit your brickfilm by the deadline.
2. Your brickfilm must be uploaded in the year 2020, no exceptions. The YouTube (or Vimeo) video must have a 2020 date. The deadline for submissions is 12:01 A.M. GMT, January 1, 2021.
3. Your entry does not have to be made for this festival, but if you include the BFG logo in the first 5 seconds of your brickfilm, it will make you eligible for the "Best Entry with BFG Logo" category. This category will be judged by Dave & Kim Smith only. BFG logo can be either static logo or CGI animated sequence.
Static Logo: http://www.brickfilmersguild.com/uploads/4/4/2/4/44245419/bfg_logo_large.jpg
Or….
CGI animated sequence: http://www.brickfilmersguild.com/uploads/4/4/2/4/44245419/bfg_logo_3d_v3.mov
4. The principle animation technique must be stop motion or LEGO “brickfilm” inspired CGI. Entries with less than 50% stop motion will not be eligible to be judged in the Cinematography, Best Scenic Design, Best Animation, and Best Brickfilm of Festival categories.
5. Your entry must be under 15 minutes long or be granted a long brickfilm waiver by BFG Advisors. If you enter a film that is over 15 minutes and it is not granted a waiver, you will have the opportunity to enter a different film.
6. You can enter only one brickfilm. No substitutions are allowed after entry has been submitted unless it is not granted a length waiver (see rule #5). It is very easy to enter the contest, but choose your brickfilm entry wisely. You have until the end of the year to enter your film. If you collaborate on brickfilms, the films must be published on different YouTube channels. No one channel may enter multiple brickfilms.
7. Violence with blood is allowed. Guns, knives, and all other weapons are allowed.
8. Offensive language will be tolerated, but could hurt your score if not used in a necessary manner or if any particular judges find it overly offensive.
9. No sexually offensive material allowed.
10. No offensive racist material will be accepted.
11. Use of licensed themes and/or music is allowed.
12. Only Brickfilmer's Guild members may enter. Link to membership form.
13. Some community sourced mega-collaborations are not eligible to enter. Brickfilms in which many individual contributors are in charge of their own animation, set, cinematography, etc. are not eligible for entry. Individuals may enter their portion of collaboration if they want. If you are not sure about your film, ask on Discord, Twitter, or Email.
Prizes:
We will continue the tradition that was started a few years ago. There will be no physical prizes awarded to the winners. Winning and being nominated for anything in this festival is the prize itself, however the winner of "Best Film" and “Member’s Choice” will be added to the list of past winners in the BFG Library.
If your entry is accepted, your name will be added to the "Accepted Entries" list HERE:
1. GUATEMAX Animations
2. Brickfield54
3. Yan's Aphira
4. Paolo Mura
5. Sonjira
6. Locker 74 Productions
7. SplitterShot
8. France & Alex
9. Frontloaderman
10. Oli-AG
11. Spudson
12. Blazable
13. James Cawood
14. Monday Pictures
15. JO Co
16. MindGame Studios
17. Bricks and Pieces
18. Joebor1777
19. starwarsstudio100
20. Silleck Family Productions
21. Brotherhood Workshop
22. Studios Epsilon
23. Monitogo Studios
24. Pongowl
25. LOTW Studios
26. AoW-Gamer
27. m1kut
28. Bad Brick Creatives
29. Calmax Film
30. Knauser
31. TheBohrokMan
32. Yetgo
33. Altlandstudios
34. Kev1n’s Lego Films
35. Jacob Crow
36. Joshua Nelson Animations
37. Gold Brick Productions
38. Brickstorming
39. Toon Bros
40. AnyBrick
41. Hennison Animations
42. Legomoves
43. cgdude9
44. SuperBat Animations
45. Mosh5256
46. Eye Daziling Pictures
47. rioforce
48. Chris McNick
49. Brick Fun Park
50. Spinjitzu Master Falcon
51. Zs Group (Shahriar)
52. Smithy of Films
53. JustDKFilms
54. OneDouglas Studios
55. TwickABrick Productions
56. Plastic Point Productions
57. LetsPlayGamez
58. Cinematic Movie Maker
This is an international contest. It is helpful if your video has closed captions unless there is no dialogue. This is not a requirement, but will be very helpful for the international group of judges.
Judging:
The eligible BFG members being invited to judge festival include:
-Any past BFG Film Festival judge
-Any Past BFG Brickfilmer of the Year
-Any Past BFG Film Festival Best Brickfilm of Festival winner
-Any Past BFG Community Award Winner
-New Nominated Judge Nominated by non-returning past judge
-Past BFG Podcast Guest
-Any bronze (3rd) Community Award winner from previous year.
-Any silver (2nd) Community Award winner from previous 2 years.
-As a way to help reduce a judges time commitment, judges may quit watching any entry after 45 seconds if they feel the brickfilm has zero possibility of making the top 10 or 20 of any category. All brickfilms will be watched completely and judged by Dave & Kim Smith for “honorable mention” and “Best Brickfilm with BFG Logo” categories.
-If a judge has animated, done post production work, or writing on an entry, they are made ineligible to judge. There may be waivers depending on circumstances, so please check us if you might be ineligible and do want to judge.
Below is the list of eligible judges for Brickfilmer's Guild Film Festival:
Dave Smith (thefourmonkeys)
Kim Smith (thefourmonkeys)
Bruno Lefèvre
Shelby Pritchard
Mirko Hortzman
Paul Hollingsworth
Kevin Ulrich
James Morr
Tommy Williamson
Marc Andre Caron
Alex Kobbs
Something's Awry Productions
David Pagano
David Pickett
Seán Willis
Chris Salaisis
Forrest Whaley
Gareth Pugh
Sean Willets
Zach Macias
Maxime Marion
Steffen Troeger
Spencer Katz
Michael Hickox
Thomas Evans
David Clark
Harrison Allen
Dylan Woodley
Aaron Fisher
TofAnimation
Alex Pearson
Gus Danko
Christopher Gearhart
Akash Jones
Andreas Bitzan
Alexander Leitner
Jared Jacobs
Pongowl
Goldbrick Studios
LOTW Studios
Titan Pictures
Frame5 Studios
Bricktale Studios
DudeBrick
SuitedNinjaNerd
BrickHat Studios
Locker 74 Productions
Scorch Bricks
Rioforce (2021)
Garry Moore
Gregory Moore
Ben Young