1. You register your team.
2. You pay the fee.
3. You wait for the kickoff, during which you’ll randomly be assigned some ridiculous prompts for your movie.
4. Shoot! You have exactly 72 hours starting from your kickoff to write, shoot, edit, export, and upload your movie.
5. The weekend after your shoot, your movie will premiere to the ENTIRE WORLD on YouTube, and it’ll stay up for people to watch for a little over another week.
6. You stare at the wall, grinding your teeth and sweating in tense anticipation of next year’s Debacle.

$35 US

The movie can be a maximum of 10 minutes in length. As for content, there are no restrictions on violence, nudity, gore, coarse language, or whatever else.

Unsimulated animal harm will result in immediate disqualification without refund.

Besides that, there are two things you need to keep in mind:

1. When you join the Debacle, you take all the responsibility for securing the rights to the content you use in the movie. Most likely, this will only be an issue between you and your conscience, but I promise that if any lawyers come calling, I will not hesitate one nanosecond to throw you under the bus.
2. Don’t be shitty. Any movie that I decide by my own arbitrary and inarguable criteria to be hateful I will cut from the lineup without refund.

• April 1 through May 10 — Registration
  Sign your team up here!
• May 17 — Payment Deadline
  Send a PayPal payment to stephen@demonskull.org, or email me if you need to make other arrangements.
• May 23/24 — Kickoffs
  The kickoffs will happen over Zoom, and I’ll do them at several different times from Thursday night through Friday to accommodate folks in weird time zones.
  Every team will get a full 72 hours.
• May 31 — Live Streaming Premiere
  The movies will have a live premiere on YouTube, which means that there will be a live chat running during the runtime. The screening will be public, so make sure you tell literally every human you know about it so they can see your masterwork.
• May 31 through June 8 — On Demand Screening
  Everyone on the planet will be able to watch the movies on YouTube from May 31 through June 8. After that, I’ll pull the movies down, and then they’re yours to do with them whatever you wish.

During the kickoff, each team will roll three six-sided dice (or 3d6 for the nerds out there), and they’ll be allowed to assign each number to one of the categories below to decide what kind of weirdo movie they have to make:

This year’s trophies are being created by Melanie Brooks of Earthenwood Studio! Melanie makes delightful sculptures and stickers and other fun stuff. Check out her store and follow her on Instagram.