RULES
The 33rd College Television Awards competition is now closed.
Entries will be judged online by category in preliminary and secondary panels on a secure server, by members of the Television Academy who are professionals working in each respective discipline. Viewing is restricted to competition judges and staff only.
Finalists in each category will proceed to Blue Ribbon Panels for selection of winners in mid-February. Winners are honored at a black-tie gala in Los Angeles, receive cash awards, industry recognition and the opportunity to network with top television executives.
As with the Primetime Emmy® Awards, entries are awarded based on excellence in overall production.
Please read the rules carefully.
RULES
- Applicants must have been enrolled in an accredited college within the United States at the time of production and completion of his/her piece. The piece produced must have been created between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2011.
- Producers may enter only one piece per category. Exception in Music categories.
- NEW RULE: Professionals use on a production may not have functioned in the following above-the-line positions: Producer, Director or Writer.
- All pieces submitted must have been produced for school-related classes, groups, or projects and must be verified by a Faculty Advisor. Upon completion of the online application, a Faculty Advisor verification form (which certifies that the producer, director and writer (and in some cases composer) were students at the time of production) will be emailed to your Faculty Advisor for completion. The applicant will receive a copy of the email sent to the Faculty Advisor.
- Rules for naming your piece:
- The name of each piece must be listed uniformly throughout the entire submission process.
- Example: This is My Entry must always be written as This is My Entry
- Entry titles should not start with the word THE
- Example: The Newspaper must always be written as Newspaper, The
- Do not use quotation marks.
- All PSAs/commercials/advertisements must be deleted from submission materials.
- If your piece is selected for the final phase of judging (Blue Ribbon panel), you will be asked to submit two high resolution .mov copies on DVD of your piece(s) as well as a :30 second promo representing the content of your submission.
- If your entry is not in English, it must contain English subtitles.
- Entries of poor sound and/or picture quality will not be considered.
- Incomplete entries will not be considered
- Like the Primetime Emmy® Award for Outstanding Program, the producer(s) of record is/are the ONLY winner(s) in each category unless stated otherwise. Only the student producer, executive producer or co-producer of record may make a submission.
- Exception: school festival coordinators and other faculty serving in that role.
- CATEGORIES
- May not exceed 30 minutes.
- This category includes various programming genres such as nonfiction, documentary, verite, docusoap, reality, competitive reality/elimination, dating/relationship, makeover, game shows, talk shows, magazine, hidden camera, clip shows, variety, sketch, music, alternative comedy and various other non-traditional formats.
- For all program types in this category that you are submitting as a series, at least 6 episodes must have been produced during the eligibility period and must be listed individually in your CTA application. You must upload 2 of those episodes.
- Running time of each episode in the series must not exceed one hour.
- Running time of all program types that are individual specials must not exceed one hour.
- May not exceed 30 minutes.
- Content should be developed and targeted for preschool through 11 years of age.
- May not exceed 30 minutes.
- Content should be developed and targeted for preschool through 11 years of age.
- A $5000 cash award will be given to producer who best showcases gender equality in their piece as defined below.
- Live action, comedy, drama, animation, educational and musical entries are eligible and must effectively and creatively follow these guidelines:
- Challenge popular culture for how females and males are portrayed
- Show diversity and dispel stereotypes for how male and female characters are portrayed
- Show a balance in quantity between male and female roles
- May not exceed 1 hour.
- May not exceed one-minute in length, and must advertise a product or service.
- PSAs will be accepted.
- May not exceed 1 hour.
- May not exceed 1 hour.
- A $10,000 cash award will be given to a producer who best:
- Sheds light on people with disabilities by having a main character with a disability.
- Helps emerging artists within this community gain recognition.
- Increases visibility for artists with disabilities.
- Entrants in this area are required to fill out a separate, downloadable form, which is found when this category is selected in the application process. Click on the link to download the form. Completed forms may be either scanned and emailed to CTAsupport@emmys.org or faxed to 818-761-2827.
- Individual segments will not be accepted.
- Segment producers are not eligible.
- May not exceed 30 minutes.
- The entire show must be submitted for consideration.
- All entries in the Music categories are eligible for submission in other categories that apply.
- In this category, the producer or the student composer may make the submission but it is the student composer who will receive the award.
- May not exceed 30 minutes.
- All compositions must be original.
- All compositions must accompany the video piece for which it was written to be considered.
- Composition is judged on the ability of the music to reflect the essence of the piece for which it was written.
- Music videos are not eligible.
- May not exceed 30 minutes.
- Entries will be judged based on the creative use of music and how it is effective in telling a story.
- Music videos are not eligible.
- All entries in the Music categories are eligible for submission in other categories that apply.
- May not exceed 30 minutes.
- Must submit entire newscast for consideration.
- Must specify if newscast is a daily or weekly show. Please provide air date.
- May not exceed 1 hour.
- At least 6 episodes must have been produced within the eligibility period and be listed on the application form.
- Two episodes must be submitted.
Signed Faculty Advisor forms must be received by 6:00 p.m. PST on Wednesday January 11, 2012. No Exceptions.
ANIMATION
ALTERNATIVE
CHILDREN’S - GENERAL
CHILDREN - FOCUS ON DIVERSITY AND GENDER EQUALITY IN CHILDREN’S MEDIA
Sponsored by the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media
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The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media and its programming arm, See Jane, work with entertainment creators and companies, educate the next generation of content-creators, and inform the public about the need to increase the number of girls and women in media aimed at kids and to reduce stereotyping of both males and females.
COMEDY
COMMERCIAL
DOCUMENTARY
DRAMA
FOCUS ON DISABILITY
Sponsored by the Loreen Arbus Foundation
MAGAZINE
MUSIC – BEST COMPOSITION
MUSIC – BEST USE OF MUSIC
NEWSCAST
SERIES – (COMEDY/DRAMA)
- GENERAL INFORMATION
- All entrants will be notified of their final status once winners’ information has been verified
- Only one student producer of record for each winning piece will be flown to Los Angeles and given hotel accommodations for the black-tie Awards Gala in the Spring of 2012. All other winning producers are invited to attend as our guest, however they will need to arrange for their own transportation and accommodations.
- Each producer recognized in the credits of a winning piece will receive a personalized trophy or plaque. The cash award will be shared equally amongst all.
