Create digitally illustrated poster artwork inspired by Downton Abbey

This Spring, Focus Features is bringing the grand escape we’ve all been waiting for to theaters–Downton Abbey: A New Era. In support of the film, Focus would love to collaborate with YOU on the official campaign:

Create digitally illustrated poster artwork inspired by Downton Abbey: A New Era.

Four [4] Selected Creators will be chosen by Focus Features, and each will receive $2,000 USD per work.
The Selected Creators’ artwork may be promoted on official social media channels.

Who is eligible: This opportunity is open to legal residents of the United States and the United Kingdom. You must be at least 18 years of age or the age of majority in your jurisdiction of primary residence at the time of submission. Employees and their immediate family and household members of Focus Features and Talenthouse (Talenthouse, Ello and Zooppa) are not eligible to participate. Void where prohibited by law.
Limit 10 submissions per creator or teams.
Please note, that during the Submission Period, your submission may be featured on Focus Features’s social media channels with credit given to you.
All submissions must be your own original work (meaning you are not allowed to use third party pre-existing copyright materials and/or stock imagery in your submission) except for the material provided by Focus Features, provided your work is entirely digitally illustrated. All rights in and to the material provided are reserved by Focus Features.
How to submit: Click on the ‘Participate’ tab and follow the instructions. Your work must be submitted in JPEG or PNG format, max. size 10 MB. Please retain your original layered artwork files in PSD/AI format in the highest quality possible. Please no photography. Please no hand-drawn or hand-painted work.
Please add a short description in English explaining the inspiration behind your work. Please use the ‘Say something about your submission’ section within your submission.
We advise you to carefully read the ‘Things to Consider’ section above.
- Upon submission, you must confirm that you have read and agreed to the License Agreement.
- If you are not selected, you will retain ownership in the original portions of your work. However, by submitting you hereby grant Focus Features a worldwide, non-exclusive, digital license from Creative Brief launch for up to 1 year after the Selected Creator Announcement, to use your submitted work across their various online and social media platforms. If your work is used, you will be credited accordingly.
- If you are a ‘Selected Creator’, you will be required to assign all rights, title and interest in and to the selected work to Focus Features for the specified incentives. Upon selection, you will be required to sign a Rights Release and an Awardee Agreement. Please note that submissions can be used by you for personal, non-commercial and portfolio use only.
- Please provide an active email address when registering with Talenthouse to ensure you can be contacted should you be selected.
- During the Selection Period, Talenthouse will reach out to those being shortlisted. You must respond to Talenthouse within forty-eight (48) hours or else you will forfeit all incentives. For the verification, you will be asked to provide the original files of your work and a scan of your ID.
- Talenthouse reserves the right to remove inappropriate, offensive and harmful submissions as well as submissions that do not fit the brief, these guidelines or Official Rules.
- No purchase necessary to enter or be selected.
- Please refer to the Official Rules for complete contest details.