The 12th annual Gray’s Reef Ocean Film Festival – Emerging Filmmakers Competition calls for student film submissions – accepting entries through December 7!
Are you interested in filmmaking? Would you like to raise public awareness for conservation of our oceans? If so, the Gray’s Reef Ocean Film festival invites your film submissions! Our film festival theme this year is of “connectivity.” In what ways are we all connected to the ocean? In what ways does the ocean connect us all as cultures around the world? Through our student film competition, we hope to provide an opportunity for students to use their knowledge and skills to address important issues regarding our ocean. Specifically, we are looking for short films that communicate how we are connected to the ocean, and how the ocean connects diverse cultures around the world. Filmmakers and filmmaking teams are encouraged to demonstrate their creativity and filmmaking skills for a panel of judges, including professional filmmakers, ocean conservationists, and educators. selected will be shown on the big screen at our 12th annual Gray’s Reef Ocean Film Festival in January 2015. Films will be selected on the basis of creativity, skill, and the ability of the filmmakers to tell a story, to inform an audience, and to move an audience to take action. A scoring rubric will be used for judging student films and is available here for reference. Awards will be given to first, second, and third place winners of the Emerging Filmmakers Competition! |
Film Festival Criteria
SUGGESTED WEBSITES FOR RESEARCH AND IDEAS(CLICK ME) If you use any of these websites in your research and when writing your script make sure you cite your sources! http://www.thankyouocean.org/videos/ http://www.oceanfutures.org/about http://worldoceansday.org/about/ http://marinebio.org/research/projects/ LOCAL RESOURCES in addition to checking out these websites, visit one of these local places and score an interview from an expert. Interviews make excellent footage and validate research and claims you may make in your film. Make sure you get a release form from those in the video, and be sure to credit them! http://www.seaturtle.org/nestdb/?view_beach=75 http://www.tybeemarinescience.org http://www.georgiaaquarium.org/support-us/conservation/ |