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Competition rules

Please read these carefully with your team. You'll be asked to accept them when you register.

1. Eligibility

Open primarily to students in Years 7–10. Students in Years 11–12 may also participate.
Enter individually or in teams of up to three students.
Each student may belong to only one team or individual entry.
All team members must have verified AIC school email accounts (@aic.wa.edu.au).
Each team submits one animated short film.

Maximum duration: five minutes.
Accepted format: MP4. Maximum upload size: 250 MB.
Content must be appropriate for a school environment and promote Islamic values.
No instrumental music. Voiceovers, dialogue, appropriate sound effects and permissible vocal-only nasheeds may be used, subject to school approval.
No offensive, discriminatory, inappropriate, or copyrighted material used without permission.
Respect privacy, consent and intellectual property rights.
Films must be substantially original creative work.

Animations should demonstrate meaningful use of AI tools in planning, creation, or editing.
AI may be used for brainstorming, story development, scriptwriting, storyboarding, character and background design, image generation, video generation and animation, voice generation where appropriate, video editing and post-production.
Films do not need to be entirely AI-generated.
You must list the AI tools you used and briefly explain how each contributed to your film.

Target submission deadline: end of Term 4, Week 8, 2026.
Exact registration, submission, voting and results dates are shown on the homepage and will be confirmed by the competition organisers.