High Adventure Theatre Contest

The High Adventure Theatre Contest was a brickfilming contest hosted by Joshua Leasure and Todd Thuma in 2004. The aim of the contest was to make a brickfilm featuring an adventure of any kind. It was the fifth official Brickfilms.com contest and the first of three to be hosted in conjunction with BrickFest. It was preceded by the A Peculiar Event Contest and followed by the Heroes and Villains Contest.

History
In March 2004, Joshua Leasure was contacted by the organiser of BrickFest, Christina Hitchcock, about taking over the animation festival portion of the convention. The animation festival had been hosted by BrickFest employee Todd Thuma starting in 2002, but he had decided to step down from hosting after the BrickFest PDX convention, which took place in February 2004. Leasure took this opportunity to combine BrickFest's animation festival with the official Brickfilms.com contests, to give BrickFest more entries and to provide a live and different audience to the members of Brickfilms.com. Leasure had already been planning a contest with an adventure theme after noticing how few adventure brickfilms were in the Brickfilms.com directory, and so the High Adventure Theatre Contest became his first contest hosted in conjunction with BrickFest.

High Adventure Theatre was the fifth official Brickfilms.com contest and was announced by Joshua Leasure on April 15 2004, two months after the end of the A Peculiar Event Contest. Entries had a maximum time limit of 10 minutes and were required to be suitable for a general audience so they could be screened at BrickFest. Copyrighted material was not allowed because, in a first for the Brickfilms.com contests, all entries would be compiled onto a DVD to be sold at the festival and also on Brickfilms.com. Based on a suggestion from David West, a small competition for trailers for the entries was considered, though it ultimately did not occur (but trailers for entries were still encouraged). The trailer sub-competition idea would be fully realised for the Heroes and Villains Contest the next year.

Top 10

 * 1. || Aladibababad || Jonathan Hellerman, Nathanael Hellerman and Billy Gribbin
 * 2. || Daedalus and Icarus || Stefan van Zwam
 * 3. || Imagine That! || Rachel Dew
 * 4. || Fred's Day || Jonathan Hellerman, Nathanael Hellerman and Billy Gribbin
 * 5. (Tied) || The Factory Fix || Stephen Nolen and Austin Nolen
 * 5. (Tied) || Sai the Magic Word || Nate Burr
 * 6. || Seeing Red || Brendan Henry
 * 7. || The Green Dragon || Nathan Dunlap
 * 8. || Eye of Aphrodite || Mark Wanninger
 * 9. || Lost || Cornelius Koch
 * 5. (Tied) || Sai the Magic Word || Nate Burr
 * 6. || Seeing Red || Brendan Henry
 * 7. || The Green Dragon || Nathan Dunlap
 * 8. || Eye of Aphrodite || Mark Wanninger
 * 9. || Lost || Cornelius Koch
 * 7. || The Green Dragon || Nathan Dunlap
 * 8. || Eye of Aphrodite || Mark Wanninger
 * 9. || Lost || Cornelius Koch
 * 9. || Lost || Cornelius Koch
 * 9. || Lost || Cornelius Koch

The Sisters' Awards
'The Sisters Award' for promising young director went to The Star of Five Treasures by Nathaniel Hendricks. Additionally, although not mentioned in the contest announcement, they presented 'The Mr. Rogers Award' to their favourite voice actor, with a LEGO set as the prize. This award went to Nathaniel Hendricks' sister, Mary Eliza Hendricks, for her role in The Star of Five Treasures.