Eco-Comedy
Video Competition
Spring
2013
** $1,000
Prize **
The contest is open to anyone who
prepares a short, funny video for YouTube, which communicates a clear message
about climate change.
Submissions
must:
- Be
humorous!
- Address the
issue of climate change. We are interpreting the topic very broadly, so it
includes topics like disasters, fossil fuels, clean energy, wildlife (like polar
bears), politics, deniers, and so on.
- Reach a
broad audience.
- Be an
original production.
- Be less than
three minutes (including titles and credits).
- Posted to
Eco-Comedy Video Competition 2013 YouTube Channel at: http://www.youtube.com/user/ecocomedy2013.
- Submitted by
11:59pm Eastern Time Zone on Friday, March 1,
2013.
There will be six judges
representing the Center for Environmental Filmmaking, Sierra Club, the US
Environmental Protection Agency, Mill Reef Productions, and EcoSense. The
decision of the judges is final. Awards are based on overall merit of the
entries. Judges reserve the right not to grant an award. The organizations
listed above reserve the right to post submissions on their
websites.
Submissions that are not received
by Friday, March 1, 2013 will not be accepted. The winner will be announced
at American University on Tuesday, March 19 at the DC Environmental Film
Festival at 7:00pm in the Wechsler Theater.
For more information regarding
submission guidelines and contest rules, visit: http://www.american.edu/soc/cef/eco-comedy-film-competition.cfm
Professor Chris
Palmer
Author
of Shooting in the Wild: An Insider's
Account of Making Movies in the Animal Kingdom (Sierra Club
Books, 2010)
Distinguished Film
Producer in Residence
Director, Center
for Environmental Filmmaking
American
University School of Communication
cell 202-716-6160;
office 202-885-3408
Follow Chris on
Twitter @chrispalmer_au
President, One
World One Ocean Foundation
President,
MacGillivray Freeman Films Educational Foundation
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