2020 Eligibility Post

[koraki]

Limited Theatrical Release is an exchange for small- to medium-sized film fandoms. For the purposes of the 2020 round, a small- to medium-sized film fandom is defined as any film with fewer than 1000 works on AO3. 

This post is provided in order to clarify fandom eligibility for the 2020 round of this exchange.

Blanket Eligibility:

• Standalone short films with fewer than 1000 works on AO3 are considered eligible for the 2020 round. 
• Animated films with fewer than 1000 works on AO3 are considered eligible for the 2020 round. 
• Music videos with fewer than 1000 works on AO3 are considered eligible for the 2020 round.
• Films based on or inspired by non-film source material (e.g. a book) are considered eligible for the 2020 round only if the film has its own fandom category on AO3 separate from the source material, and that category contains fewer than 1000 works. 
• Standalone episodes of TV shows such as Black Mirror and tie-in film shorts from multimedia franchises such as Overwatch are not considered eligible for the 2020 round. 

If any of the statements below applies to a fandom or character tag you wish to nominate, please comment on this post before submitting the nomination or it will be rejected:

If you wish to nominate a movie with over 1000 works listed on AO3, but you feel the movie should still be eligible for a special reason, please comment on this post to explain why you feel the movie should be eligible before submitting the nomination or it will be automatically rejected. 

If you wish to nominate a movie that is only listed under a Series or All Media Types category on AO3 and the AO3 “Series”/"All Media Types" category contains over 1000 works, please comment on this post to clarify before submitting the nomination or it will be rejected. 

If you wish to nominate a rare film based on or inspired by other source material (e.g. a book) but the film has not yet been given a fandom category, please comment on this post to clarify before submitting the nomination or it will be rejected. 

Generic OCs are considered eligible nominations for the 2020 round as part of & or / relationships with canon characters! If you wish to nominate a specific OC tag (e.g. "Deckard/Original Replicant Character(s)", "Saoirse & Original Daoine Sidhe Character(s)", etc.), please comment on this post to explain why you wish to nominate a specific OC tag, or your nomination may be rejected. Specific OC tags must relate in an immediately obvious way to the fandom you wish to nominate them for (e.g. "Koda & Original Bear Character(s)" for Brother Bear (2003)), and may not be so specific that they could be considered railroading. 

Fandom and character eligibility rules are mostly an experiment for the 2020 round, as this is the first time the exchange has run. You'll be welcome to share your feelings about how these eligibility rules impacted your experience at the conclusion of the round! 

Comments

Fandom Clarification - Nicholas Nickleby (2003)

[gloriousgoblinqueen]

Hi, I wanted to post a clarification for this movie. It doesn't have its own fandom category; I don't recall offhand how many fics have been written for it but they're lumped in under the Books & Literature fandom of "Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens". And even that one has way less than 1000 fics in it. Would this movie be eligible?

Re: Fandom Clarification - Nicholas Nickleby (2003)

[koraki]

Yes, this movie is eligible. It appears that an uncategorized fandom tag with no works already exists on AO3 as "Nicholas Nickleby (2002)" so please nominate using that tag.

[(Anonymous)]

Slightly weird question: would this Pathé newsreel from 1959 count as an eligible fandom? These shorts were shown on cinema screens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e97xYgjByf8

[koraki]

Yes, that would be considered eligible! Thank you for asking.

[dreamiflame]

The Mummy Trilogy is usually just lumped together as the Mummy series, as are The Night at the Museum trilogy, the Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland movies, The Boondock Saints Series, and The Matrix series. I'd like to nominate at least some of them, how do I do it? All of them are under 1000 works.

[koraki]

As long as the series/category contains fewer than 1000 works, you may nominate whatever characters and relationships you like under the series tag!

The reason we provide the clause about movies listed under categories with more than 1000 works is because there are some fandoms (such as the Mad Max franchise) where one movie in the category is provably overrepresented within the AO3 category compared to the others, and we didn't want to exclude rarer movies in those situations out of hand if someone felt strongly about nominating them.

This doesn't apply to your situation, as all the series you mention are under 1000 works, so you do not need to worry about what's listed as a single movie vs. a series. Thank you for asking!

[dreamiflame]

Thank you!