kolmapäev, 9. september 2015

5th Green-Go short film contest

Are you concerned to hear of children risking their health and lives working in gold mines?
Is it shocking for you to see that once blooming nature is not here anymore?
You can't agree that fair trade is just a short-lived fashion?

SHOOT A SHORT FILM AND MAKE A CHANGE!

CATEGORIES:
OUR FOOTPRINT ON EARTH
Do you want to show that overconsumption is a pressing problem? Have you made changes in your life to consume less or
more ethically? Love fair trade? Prefer buying local?
Make a film about overconsumption or the innovative ways to change or reduce it!  Raise awareness and inspire others!

TWO FACES OF EXPLOITATION
Do you see the dark side of raw material extraction, like mining or oil drilling? Are you aware that one million children work in
mines all over the world? Do you think that such mining is not worth the social or environmental price?
Shoot a film and raise your voice for protection of people and nature!

YOU ARE PART OF NATURE. LIVE WITH IT!
Let's imagine there is a court process to decide whether to keep European nature or to get rid of it. The only evidence in favour
of nature would be three short films. One of them would be yours. What film would that be? One filled with beautiful memories
or one with arguments on creating green jobs and generating other benefits for people? Or do you have better ideas?
Make your stance for European nature!

FILM REQUIREMENTS
max. 4 minutes, but 60-90 seconds preferably
any genre (cartoon, animation, puppet film, documentary, interviews, etc.)
any film format, high resolution films (at least 720 px wide)
films that can make an impact!
The winners of each of the three categories will be decided by a jury by 15 October.
The winning and other selected films will be showed to the public in high level events.

TESTIMONIES
You do not want to shoot a film, but would like to voice your opinion on the above issues? Talk to te camera and send your video recorded message to us and we will make sure that it reaches those whom it concerns!
Video recorded messages shall be maximum 30 seconds long.
Our aim is to screen the winning and other selected films to decision makers and the public in order to make an impact.
A collage film will be made from the testimonies and your voice will be heard.
Co-organisers of the You are part of nature. Live with it!
Category winners: gift voucher worth 700 EUR in an acclaimed online store
One public award for the film collecting the most votes on the Green-Go website: gift voucher worth 500 EUR in an acclaimed online store

DEADLINE: 15 September 2015
More information, the terms and conditions and the application form:
www.greengofest.eu

FOR ETHICAL MINING AND RESOURCE CONSUMPTION
The short film contest is realised with the assistance of the European Union. 
The contents of this call are the sole responsibility of CEEweb, and the contents of the films are the sole responsibility of the film makers and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union.

http://greengofest.eu/

Power of Compost: Video Competition

What is so great about compost?

Compost is an incredibly powerful tool in the zero waste tool box. Organic waste is often one of the most challenging waste streams in urban areas, as it’s usually the largest waste stream of household waste and the most problematic in environmental terms. With separation at source and proper treatment through composting however, it can be an amazing opportunity to help create a genuinely circular economy. Composting organic waste can help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and avoid hazardous disposal systems such as landfilling and incineration. As a natural soil improver, it replaces the need for chemical-based fertilisers (contributors to climate change), and it has amazing rejuvenating qualities for soil, increasing the capacity of the land to act as a ‘carbon sink’ and reducing the amount of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere.

Across Europe millions of people are involved in composting, both on an individual level and as part of neighbourhood or community schemes. These actions are preventing vast amounts of greenhouse gas emissions, and providing vital nutrients for soils. We want to hear your composting stories, and learn more about the inspirational ways that you and your communities are taking action to reduce organic waste.

That is why we have decided to launch a competition to celebrate composting, with some fantastic rewards.


Our competition…

Are you part of a fantastic composting project that doesn’t get enough attention? Do you need some added funds to expand your community composting scheme? Or are you just passionate about composting and want to promote your own creative organic waste solution? We want to know about it!

Submit your video to win

We have 3 huge prizes up for grabs, in our composting video competition, and all you have to do is submit a video or animation showing off your composting project, explaining why composting is so great, or highlighting a creative solution. We are particularly encouraging home-made and amateur video contributions, so remember the content is more important than the camera quality, and get out your smart-phones, and video-cameras and get stuck into a bit of compost.

The competition is divided into three categories, with different criteria and prizes, and will be judged by our panel of experts including experts from the European Compost Network (ECN), The Organic Stream, and Zero Waste Europe so if you want to participate, make sure you take a look at the different categories. You don’t have to specify which category your video comes under during the application process, so don’t worry if you aren’t sure, or feel that your video might fit more than one category, as our judges will assess which award the video would be most suited for.


The categories:

Community Solutions Award — Prize 500eur

In this category we are looking for the best community solution, so if you are part of a neighbourhood composting project or work with other local composters to collect all that food-waste, or just want to talk about community solutions make sure that you send us a video.

Creative Composter Award — Prize 500eur

This category will choose the most creative composting solution, we want to see your innovative and unusual composting efforts, as well as any creative attempts to promote composting of organic waste.

Compost Education Award — Prize 500eur

In the final category we are looking for the most effective and inspiring educational video about compost. This could be about the benefits of compost, or how to start your own compost project, or anything else really, so long as it is educational and espouses composting!


Tips & hints

We know that not everyone out there is a master in creating videos, there may not even be a direct correlation between video-editors and composters at all! But there is no need to worry, as we have put together some simple tips and hints to make sure your video is in with the best chance of winning!

There are so many more benefits of compost which we wrote about in depth for International Compost Week. We recommend that you give the article a read over before making your video to help ensure that you cover the kind of advantages of composting we are looking for.

* Keep your video relatively short and to the point. We would expect videos to be around the 1.5 minute mark, and if videos are longer than 3 minutes we will not be able to include them in our competition.
* If you are filming on a smartphone make sure to have your phone rotated in landscape (we find that makes a much better film!)
* Try and move the camera as smoothly as possible to help avoid a film which could be difficult to watch
* If your computer doesn’t come with any, there are plenty of free video editing and animation software options available, which you should be able to find with a quick internet search.
* If video isn’t your thing, then you are also free to submit animations or other ‘video’ forms. Be creative, and surprise us!

The rules

This is the short version of the rules, for the legal stuff have a look at our full rules.
* All entries must be received by midnight (GMT) on the 1st of November.
* Entries should be uploaded to Youtube and set as unlisted, the link should then be sent to competition@zerowasteeurope.eu
* The judges will be looking for the best projects, ideas and composting solutions, not the most polished, professional videos.
* The video should reflect the benefits of compost as explained above and the core values of Zero Waste Europe.
* We are afraid that we will not be able to accept videos which are not either in English, or have English subtitles.
* All entries must consist of original or previously unreleased content, by entering the competition you give Zero Waste Europe the right to host your video on our Youtube channel, and share it through social media.
* Winners will be contacted by email.

http://www.zerowasteeurope.eu/2015/08/power-of-compost-video-competition/

eSkills for Jobs 2015 European Video Competition

Participate in the eSkills for Jobs 2015 European Video Competition!

The eSkills for Jobs 2015 European video competition, organised within the context of the eSkills for Jobs awareness raising campaign, is an opportunity to highlight and reward persons with a high level of digital skills and literacy at a European level.

The competition focuses on identifying concrete successful initiatives made possible by the use of ICT and the mastery of eSkills. The aim is to reach out to motivated and talented young people (aged 16 and over), business leaders, policymakers, ICT practitioners, NGOs, educators, job seekers and entrepreneurs.

The eSkills video competition is open to all European citizens. Videos could be submitted in the following three categories: (For more details on how to participate select one of the competition categories.)

.    Digital Citizenship (target: business leaders, ICT practitioners, NGOs)
.    Digital Entrepreneurship (target: entrepreneurs)
.    Most inspirational career campaigner (target: job seekers and career changers)

The deadline for submission of entries is Saturday 31 October 2015.

A winner and a runner-up will be selected per category. The winner and runner-up will be invited to attend the award winning ceremony on 14-15 December 2015 during the eSkills high-level conference organised under the auspices of the European Council Luxembourg Presidency. The flight and accommodation will be covered by the eSkills for Jobs Campaign.

esmaspäev, 17. august 2015

Script Pitch 2015

interfilm Berlin & 25p MEDIA GROUP present in cooperation with NISI MASA and daazo / World Of Shorts Magazine:
INTERNATIONAL SCRIPT PITCH 2015

CALL OPEN FROM AUG-01 until SEP-01

From NOV-09 until NOV-13th 2015 during the interfilm Festival

We're looking for captivating screenplays and pitches for short films that blow us away!

interforum, the fringe program for professional visitors and film enthusiasts at the International Short Film Festival interfilm Berlin is now accepting entries for our international Script Pitch competition.

Three fabulous awards await you!

BEST PITCH / €1000 cash from 25p *MEDIA GROUP and the opportunity to be presented on the pitch page of WOSH Issue, Cannes 2016
ESP Jury Award / a stipend to participate in the European Short Pitch 2016 by NISI MASA
daazo Award / a one-on-one session of individual festival strategy consulting provided by daazo

JURY / Anna Brüggemann (actress/ screenwriter, DE) / Emily Kyriakides (Senior Producer, Lighthouse Production, UK), a.o.

In addition to the Script Pitch competition, all participants are provided with a practical and stimulating workshop programme to accompany the competition. There will be both a workshop on script development to sharpen the participants' creative skills with Nadja Dumouchel (La scénaristerie, Arte, FR) and Wim Wanacker (Head of Script Department, NISI MASA, BE) and a seminar on pitching with Gabriele Brunnenmeyer (Script Consulting, Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film, Maia Workshops, DE) to evaluate the live performance of each contestant. The entire competition will we held in English.

A Meet & Greet for competitors and the audience will be held afterwards, to maximize the interlinking of creative and industry professionals in an open forum.

As of now, all script writers and interested filmmakers are welcome to apply with their script. Eight contestants will be selected to participate in the Script Pitch competition. The application form can be downloaded online here.

interfilm Berlin Management GmbH
Tempelhofer Ufer 1a
10961 Berlin

Tel +49 30 25291320
info@interfilm.de
www.interfilm.de

Läänemeremaade lühifilmikonkurss

Culture.pl, the Pomeranian Film Foundation in Gdynia, the Gdynia Film Festival, and the Gdynia Film School are organising a short-film competition about the Baltic Sea countries – their cultural identity, their history, their society, their transformation.

Participants have a month to submit a film lasting 1 to 5 minutes, and are encouraged to reflect on current facets of the Baltic Sea, and how to best present it on film. The competition is open to both professional and amateur filmmakers, provided they are citizens of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark , Germany, Iceland, Russia – inhabitants of Kaliningrad and the St-Petersburg area– and Poland.

Films can be sent until August 25 and should be sent through the form available on Culture.pl.

The award ceremony will be held at the 40th Film Festival in Gdynia. Common Baltic is  part of the cultural programme carried out by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and Culture.pl. After projects in the countries of the Eastern Partnership and Asia, the Institute's cultural activity now turns to Poland, Russia , Lithuania, Latvia , Estonia, Finland , Norway, Sweden , Denmark, Germany, and Iceland.

Details and contest regulations available on Culture.pl.

http://culture.pl/en/article/common-baltic-short-film-contest-a-month-by-the-baltic-sea


laupäev, 4. juuli 2015

The Baltic Pitching Forum 2015

The Baltic Pitching Forum will be held in Vilnius from October 9th-10th 2015 as a part of the 10th International Short Film Festival Vilnius Film Shorts.

Consisting of training and pitching, the event aims to set up a place for short filmmakers situated in the Baltic countries to present their new projects whilst sharing common issues and knowledge, exchanging experience and good practices, developing artistic ideas and increasing contacts. The event will also encourage them to attract active European producers, TV commissioners, film fun representatives, VoD and festival programmers and distributors.

The Forum will consist of one-day pitching training and one-day pitching sessions of selected projects alongside one-to-one meetings with film professionals from all over Europe. During the forum one project will be selected by the international panel to travel to the European Short Film Co-production Forum Euro Connection, which will be part of the 41st Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival held at the beginning of 2016. The same panel will also choose a project to take part in the European Short Pitch which will take place in 2016.

BPF is open to Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian based film directors and producers, or Baltic born producers and directors based in another country. They will be expected to have finished at least one short film project and to be currently developing a new project which is a fiction or animation short film no longer than 30 min. and oriented to an international audience. Three project from each participating country will be selected to the Baltic Pitching Forum. The application deadline is the 1st of August.

The Baltic Pitching Forum is organised by the Lithuanian Short Film Agency Lithuanian Shorts
(www.lithuanianshorts.com) and International Short Film Festival Vilnius Film Shorts
(www.filmshorts.lt) in association with Riga International Film Festival (www.rigaff.lv), Riga International Short Film Festival 2ANNAS (http://www.2annas.lv/), ShortEst International Short Film Center and Sleepwalkers International Short Film Festival (www.swff.ee).

More information at http://www.filmshorts.lt/en/bpf-2015-2/
Representatives of the Baltic Pitching Forum in participating countries:
Marija Razgute: marija@filmshorts.lt (Lithuania)
Peter Murd Maa and Laurence Boyce: shortest@shortest.eu (Estonia)
Agnese Logina: agnese@rigaiff.lv (Latvia)

neljapäev, 4. juuni 2015

Baltic Pitching Forumi eelsündmus 11. juunil

Lühifilmi Keskus ShortEst ja Lühifilmifestival Sleepwalkers kutsuvad osalema Baltic Pitching Forumit tutvustaval eelsündmusel.

11. juunil kl 19 toimub Viimsi kinos Baltic Pitching Forumi (BPF) eelsündmus, kus antakse ülevaade BPFi tegevusest ning tutvustatakse valminud ja teostamisel olevaid projekte. Sündmus on tasuta ning kõik huvilised on oodatud, kuid kuna kohtade arv on piiratud, palume eelnevalt registreerida: bpfestonia.eventbrite.fr

Short Film Center ShortEst invites you to participate in Baltic Pitching Forum Pre-Event which will take place on the 11th of June at 7 pm at Viimsi Cinema. We will give you an overview of the BPF and introduce the on-going projects. The event is free and open to all but as the seating is limited, we kindly ask you to register here:
bpfestonia.eventbrite.fr