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On your two thoughts:
1) Well... "at least 5" makes it too much like the other competitions. What I want to see is how well people can do when forced to use a sparse texture... I would in fact say "no more than 5 instruments, including at least one string and one wind".
2) I agree, let's do both the movie theme and the chamber ensemble. One of the most fun chamber works that I've ever played was Milhaud's suite for "Le Voyageur sans Bagages", which was originally written as incidental music and yet scored for only violin, clarinet, and piano. But instead of just calling it film music, I'd suggest calling the theme "incidental music", for either a play or a film.
My thought here is: it would be a truly unique challenge to write effective incidental/film music for a very limited ensemble. Milhaud did it... and so should we! 
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1) Ok then...it will have to be a full orchestra to get what we want with the competition...so we will keep them separate. Just an idea.
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