Before I set up polls in October to vote on 2021 Challenge options, this thread will be open for two weeks for you to put any suggestions forward.
On September 19, I will release some preliminary polls where we can vote for which of the options suggested here should make the final poll.
As per last year, I would like participants to limit themselves to three new challenge suggestions. While I don't like to place a cap on creativity, we were very much swarmed by the extensive number of suggestions that participants in 2018 put forward. By capping it at three, it is my hope that participants will carefully choose ideas with lots of potential and which are likely to receive solid support.
NOTE: This thread is not a poll, but rather a discussion thread about poll options.
This is the current schedule that I am working on prior to the 2021 Challenge Series beginning:
Spoiler
September 5 - open a discussion thread for voting and challenge permanency discussion
September 5 - open a discussion thread to talk through the Country/Region Challenges currently scheduled for 2021
September 19 - open preliminary polls to see which Challenge ideas will make it to the final polls
September 26 - open a single poll to vote on 2021 Challenge options
And then either (see other thread)
October 3 - close the single poll (if we have a public vote) and discuss scheduling for successful Challenge ideas
OR
October 17 - close the single poll (if we have a private vote) and discuss scheduling for successful Challenge ideas
November ?? - open a thread to discuss Challenge rules and feedback before the 2021 Challenge Series begins
NOTE: There is SOME room for me to be flexible with dates, but I've tried to make the dates coincide with Saturdays and when I am on holidays in order that I can actively contribute towards discussions.
The following Challenges are currently permanent and will placed in the 2021 schedule without being voted on:
<400 Checks (permanent)
Horror (permanent)
Noir (permanent)
Documentary (permanent)
All non-permanent 2020 Theme/Genre/Decade Challenge options will be automatically be placed in the October poll. These are:
Run the Director
Sci-Fi / Fantasy
Directed by Woman
1000<400
Animation
Unofficial
Western
Blaxploitation/African American
Comedy
Doubing the Canon nominees
Low IMDb rating
Silent Era
1970s
1960s
1980s
1990s
1950s
Academy Award nominees
Crime films
TSPDT + TSPDT 21st Century
The following five options were immediate runners-up in last year's poll and will be automatically be placed in the October poll. These are:
1930s
1940s
Criterion / MoC
LGBTIQ+/Queer
Musical
The following options have been suggested by forum users on this thread.
These will be voted on in a series of preliminary polls, with the best performing options added to the October poll:
Travel the World (suggested by blocho)
War (suggested by blocho)
Run the Actor (suggested by Lilarcor)
Run the Music Composer (suggested by hurluberlu)
Justice (trials, lawyers, social justice, political systems) (suggested by hurluberlu)
The Seven Deadly Sins (suggested by hurluberlu)
Directed by Person of Colour (suggested by blueboybob)
NSFW: R18+, NC-17 and Unrated (excluding XXX) (suggested by blueboybob)
Runtime (watch a 1min film, then a 2min film etc) (suggested by blueboybob)
One Film From Each iCM List (suggested by Traveller)
Run the Film Series/Franchise (suggested by Lonewolf)
Birth Year (suggested by Daviddoes)
Run the Writer (suggested by OldAle1)
Run the adaptations of the same story (suggested by OldAle1)
Rewatches (suggested by St. Gloede)
Thegreatestbooks.org adaptations (suggested by mjf)
Run the Years/One Film From Each Year (suggested flavo)
Kids and Family (suggested flavo)
Coming-of-age (suggested flavo)
Surrealism (suggested by St. Gloede)
Experimental/Avant-Garde (suggested by St. Gloede)
Waves from around the world (suggested by RogerTheMovieManiac)
Starring Children (suggested 3eyes)
Biopics (suggested 3eyes)
Disabilities (suggested 3eyes)
Short Features - under 90mins (suggested by RogerTheMovieManiac)
Long Features - over 135mins (suggested by sol)
Watches two cuts of the same film (suggested by maxwelldeux)
Non-human animal as protagonist/focal point (suggested by peeptoad)
Action and Adventure (suggested by RogerTheMovieManiac)
Miniseries (suggested by blueboybob)
Food and Eating (suggested by maxwelldeux)
Actor/Actress Linking (suggested by maxwelldeux)
In Competition at Cannes (suggested by AB537)
In Competition at Venice (suggested by AB537)
Mystery/Thriller (suggested by psychotronicbeatnik)
La Cinetek top movies https://bit.ly/3mwLUWh (iCM list pending) (suggested by AB537)
Banned Films/Video Nasty (suggested by sol)
Martial Arts (suggested by sol)
Please also note that Country/Region Challenges are being handled separately on a rotational basis so all suggestions here should be theme or genre-related.