My strike against it for the Short Work category is that above 40 minutes is a short feature film, aka Motion Picture. Of course it is not in fact 45 minutes but 40 minutes, 20 seconds, which seems like it could be interpreted as either.
You could even argue that it is properly part of a Dramatic Series. But then, the guidelines say "specific episodes of series", so I guess it is a long Short Work. The bad aspect of this is that most fan animation effectively gets pigeonholed into this one category by dint of not being able to compete with feature films and not being able to put out enough episodes in a year to honestly qualify as a dramatic series, unless they are very short.
My strike against it for the Short Work category is that above 40 minutes is a short feature film, aka Motion Picture. Of course it is not in fact 45 minutes but 40 minutes, 20 seconds, which seems like it could be interpreted as either.
You could even argue that it is properly part of a Dramatic Series. But then, the guidelines say "specific episodes of series", so I guess it is a long Short Work. The bad aspect of this is that most fan animation effectively gets pigeonholed into this one category by dint of not being able to compete with feature films and not being able to put out enough episodes in a year to honestly qualify as a dramatic series, unless they are very short.