My Environment, My Film: Viral Video Making Competition with Darklight, European Commission in Ireland and Cultivate

Attention all budding filmmakers! Make a short film on The Environment and you could win a state of the art HD camera and have your work screened at this year’s Darklight Festival! While you’re at it - go to their FREE VIRAL VIDEO MAKING AND DISTRIBUTION WORKSHOP! Here’s all the info…

When is the last time you saw a movie or TV programme that really inspired you to look at the environment in a different way? Did you become more aware of nature? Did you think more about a problem facing our surroundings? Or maybe you felt there was something you could do in your daily life to bring about change?

Well the European Commission in Ireland, Cultivate and Darklight are inviting you to make a short film on “Your Environment”. The theme could be anything from climate change, to positive steps that we can take to protect our local environment. The choice is yours.

It doesn’t matter if you shoot it on your mobile phone, a state of the art digital video camera, or create your own DIY animation, the ideas the thing. Make it a comedy, a tragedy, a documentary, an animation… Whatever takes your fancy.

This competition is open to people of all ages and all experiences.

…the proposition

Make a short film inspired by the title ‘My Environment, My Film’. It’s all about self-expression. And if it gets people thinking, even better!

The second part is to get as many views to your film between now and the competition close. Your art needs to be seen.

…the prize

The winning entry will win a state of the art HD Digital camera and have their work screened this October at the 2010 Darklight Film Festival. Prize supplied by our friends at Tyrell:cct.

…the web

As this is an internet competition, your entries need to be uploaded onto a video hosting site – You Tube, Google Video, Vimeo… Any online video hosting site will do nicely. Once you do that, submit your link, along with your details, on the “Entry” page (euireland.ie/darklight/entry). NB: Don’t forget to check out the terms and conditions of this competition.

Entries must be uploaded to one of these sites and submitted between now and the closing date of the 15th of October.

…the criteria

The winner will not only be selected on the basis of the best film produced, but also by the number of hits their video gets. 75% of the marks for the movie will be given over to creativity and imagination, and 25% for building an audience.

The judges’ decisions are final.

…the workshop

On Saturday 28th August the EU Commission Representation in Ireland, the Darklight Festival and Cultivate held a free viral video workshop as part of the My Environment, My Film short film competition.

The workshop is available to watch via ustream on the competition website: www.euireland.ie/darklight.
Remember the deadline for the competition is 15 October 2010. Make sure to get your entry in to us before then via the competition entry page:http://www.euireland.ie/darklight/index.php

…check out our own little movie

You can check out their own little movie to help get your thinking caps on, plue more info about this competition and workshop

…contact

Any questions, drop them a line at euenvironment (at) darklight (dot) ie.