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THE SAKURA-CON 2024 AMV Contest!

Deadline: Saturday, February 3rd, 2023, 11:59pm PST

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Now open for submissions!
Here's how to participate:

STEP ONE: Register to participate, then await your entrant code (usually within 48 hours).
STEP TWO: Once you've received your entrant code, submit your AMVs.

Click here to register!
You are encouraged to register early, even if your AMVs are not yet ready.

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Already submitted an entry?
Click here to view the status of your entry!
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Click here for the Official Event Rules!

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THE (unofficial) “TL;DR” RULES (IN SIMPLE WORDS & AS FEW AS POSSIBLE):
1) Three vids max, except Commercials (unlimited).
2) No super-short or super-long vids.
3) No vids older than July 10th, 2023.
4) Must be age-13 friendly.
5) No janky audio & video quality.
6) No “AMV Hell” clip-show vids.
7) No plugging other events.
8) No “Low Effort” Entries.
9) No subtitles, watermarks, karaoke, etcetera.
10) Video material should be mostly anime relevant.
11) No non-musical stuff (except in Trailers and Commercials).
12) No voice-cloning.
13) If you use AI tech, explain how. Don’t be evil with it.


WHAT’S NEW COMPARED TO LAST YEAR:
Rule Changes:

• Re-wrote all rules for clarity (in the FULL rules version).
  
• NEW Rule 12 – Music or dialogue created via “deepfake” voice-cloning technologies is forbidden.
  
• NEW Rule 13 – AI tech is new and controversial. We don’t yet know enough to say how it should or shouldn’t be used. Thus, entries that use it must declare so, and will be accepted/rejected case-by-case. Such entries will be nitpicked heavily, and our decisions will set rule precedents for future years.
  

New awards: (Eligible to all accepted entries, including non-finalists)

• Coordinators’ Choice – Awarded to an AMV that the Event Coordinator Team deemed deserving.
  
• Best Classic – Awarded to an AMV deemed to have made best use of any one of the following as a majority of their source material:
  
  • A pre-widescreen (4:3) anime TV series.
    
  • An anime motion picture from 1994 or prior.
    
  • Music older than 40 years old.
    

The above is an abridgment of the official rules. They are NOT a substitute for them.
Click here to read the FULL official rules.

Questions? Email the AMV Team at: amv(AT)sakuracon.org

We look forward to seeing you and your awesome work at the Sakura-Con 2024 AMV Contest! Thank you!