I just finished our entry and got it uploaded along with all the release forms, etc. We drew the Buddy and/or Horror genres, the character was an athlete (male or female), the line "I have good news and bad news" and the prop a flashlight. Happily, combining genres is encouraged, so our entry is a Horror/Comedy, four minutes long. One new contest feature was a way of getting a CheckSum for the finished movie without actually uploading the whole thing (took a few minutes), so you can then upload it the next day and the CheckSum verifies its the same video. No extra time for making the video, but no desperate attempt to upload it at the deadline (a couple of hours). Seemed to work fine for our 250MB video.

I'm happy with our entry, but with 50 worldwide teams, there's gonna be some knockouts, I think.

I don't know when I can upload the video, probably not until the judges are finished. Maybe a trailer, but I don't see anything in the rules, so I asked them via email.