Exporting a Movie Uncompressed?

I just finished cutting my first HD film, shot with the Pansonic HVX (it is a 5 minute short).
It was all shot 720p and the final export res should be 1280 x 720.
It will be playing in a festival in April and they asked me to send it to them uncompressed.
First question: Is that even possible? Is there a format it can be saved in that is uncompressed? If so what is it?
Second question: Assuming it has to be compressed, what is the best compression type to use to keep the quality as high as possible? Space is not an issue.
Thanks,
Chris

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I searched for a solution to my problem for a while and haven't found any so I felt I'd finally ask.
I am exporting a movie in Premiere Pro 2.0 as a .mov. Yet everytime I export the audio quality is awful. The audio plays fine within premiere, and the video exports perfectly. I've tried uncompressed audio, and the result is a loud static sound. I've tried multiple compressors (oblivious to which I should be using) none of which offered good results (sometimes it was even silent). What settings should I be using? (By the way, the audio in the scene is .mp3 and .wav, but I felt using the uncompressed setting would be find since I wouldn't be recompressing the audio)
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Thanks so much,
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Error -50 paramErr Error in user parameter list
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from Luke Burns
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from: jonorparkerjon
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from Karsten S
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fps - set
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