TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR THE FIVE MINUTE FILM FESTIVAL BY ARGO NAVIS LLC ("The Festival"):

- Your film must be under ten minutes (or less) before credits to be considered

- All submission fees are non-refundable, regardless of if the film is accepted to the festival or not.

- Submission of a film does not guarantee acceptance of the film into the festival.

- Acceptance of a film into the festival does not guarantee the film will screen at the event

- if your film is selected but does not screen you are still considered an official selection of the festival and can post your laurels.

- If you submit content to the festival and we accept your content into the festival, you agree to let us show the content at the festival during the screening and to clip content from your submission to create advertisements for the festival in the form of festival highlight reels, future festivals, festival trailers, stills, etc. without compensation. These materials are only used to promote the festival or future festivals. These materials will NOT be used by us for the purposes of training AI.

- You retain all rights to your film and acceptance into the festival does not equal an endorsement of any individual filmmaker or film by Argo Navis LLC.

- Submission of your film and attendance of the festival are at your own risk. Argo Navis LLC will not be responsible for any losses, damages or hardships incurred by you in association with the festival.

- If the festival cannot proceed due to a Force Majure event, an earnest attempt will be made to reschedule the festival. If that cannot happen and the event is cancelled, Argo Navis LLC will not be responsible for any damages or hardships incurred by the filmmaker.

- Any statements made by Argo Navis LLC regarding potential awards, recognitions, or prizes is not meant to imply or guarantee there will be any kind of cash or monetary component to the prize, award, or recognition.. These statements are only meant to clarify the conditions that would govern any potential monetary prize, if one were to exist. If a cash or monetary prize does exist, those prizes cannot be offered to filmmakers outside of the United States. The amount, distribution and eligibility of prize, recognition of awards is the sole discretion of Argo Navis, LLC. Monetary Prizes (if any exist) are for residents of the United States only. Awards and Prizes (if any exist) will be prioritized for filmmakers who actually attend the event in-person. Any and all prizes (if they exist), selections and screenings are at the sole discretion of our Festival Directors.

- Submission fees are to cover administration of the festival. Entering more does not improve your chances of selection as each film is selected on it's own merits and relevance to the festival based on the decisions of our Festival Directors and Argo Navis, LLC.

- Argo Navis LLC has the right to accept or reject any film submitted to the festival for any reason at any time. Awards, prizes or recognitions can be revoked for any reason at any time at the discretion of Argo Navis, LLC.

- Acceptance/selection into the Festival can be revoked for any reason at any time at the discretion of our Festival Directors and Argo Navis LLC.

- No films solely created using generative AI will be accepted. If you submit a film created by generative AI, please remember that your submission fee is non-refundable.

We are here to encourage and spotlight human-generated creativity!