NHD-CA Documentary Submission Instructions 2025

Your group or individual Documentary will be submitted as a MP4 Video file. Your written materials will be submitted as a PDF. 

For groups, only ONE group member should submit the project.  Please choose that group member and do not submit multiple projects.

Your podcast must conform to all of the rules in the NHD Rule Book: https://www.nhdca.org/contest-rules

 Submitting Your Documentary

STEP 1 

Save the final version of your documentary as a MP4 file. Use the following naming format:

    Division_Category_lastname(s).mp4   
    [separate last names by an underscore]

    Example  
    Jr_GroupPodcast_Ortiz_Krishnan.mp4

STEP 2 

Save your written materials.

1.       Print or export your Title Page, Process Paper, Shownotes, and Annotated Bibliography as PDFs.

2.       Create one combined PDF of the following items in the order below.

1.       Title Page

2.       Process Paper

3.       Annotated Bibliography

How to Combine Your PDFs

You can use the free software ilovepdf.com or smallpdf.com to merge your PDFs into one PDF document.

UPLOAD:
1. Your Documentary as an MP4 (following naming rules provided in Step 1) and
2. Your written materials as one PDF document (from Step 2 above).