Sustainability Films Wanted! The Intervideo Talent Award “Morgen sehen wir weiter” (“Tomorrow we will see”) starts second round

For the second time since its successful debut in 2009, Intervideo Filmproduktion GmbH is announcing its Intervideo Talent Award which started March 1, 2011.

Giving new young media talent a boost worked so well in its first run that Intervideo itself received a prize for the idea: the “German Culture Promotion Prize” (Deutscher Kulturförderpreis).

Students or trainees and those just starting on a media career who wish to address the competition theme in film are eligible to take part. Participants may not be older than 30 when submitting their entry.

Under the heading of “THE FUTURE AS A BRAND – Sustainability as a value and product,” this year’s competition is about the almost inflationary use of the term “sustainability.” Is the “produce, consume, recycle” blueprint a workable or illusory model for modern industrialized society? Doesn’t sustainability in the strictest sense turn our entire economic system and how we co-exist on its head?

Or does the term takes its place in the long series of communication catastrophes and cure-all mantras in the advertising industry? Is sustainability possibly only a decoy designed to trigger people to consume and actually stand in the way of sustainability? In our Web-savvy age, words decay rapidly. How sustainable will the expression sustainability be?

We are interested in films which address the topic of sustainability dispassionately, critically and/or artistically. Films which look at the issue from a wide range of perspectives investigate it or make it intelligible in emotional terms. The films themselves may somehow even be sustainable, or serve as models of sustainability.

This year, the Intervideo Young Filmmaker Award will be awarded in four film categories – “Documentaries,” “Fiction/Short films,” “Animations” and “Freestyle.”

This year too, after the entry period closes, an independent jury will select the winning entries.

Cash awards amounting to a total of €2,000 are on offer to the winners, as well as various non-cash prizes. The prizes will be presented at the film festival “exground” in Wiesbaden in November.

Deadline for submission of entries is August 31, 2011. Further information and all documentation concerning the competition is available at:
www.intervideo-nachwuchspreis.de

Terms and Conditions in English are now available!

We look forward to receiving your entries and films!

The Intervideo Talent Award was awarded the German Arts Sponsorship Award by the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI e.V. (Association of Arts and Culture of the German Economy at the Federation of German Industries) in 2010

More information about the German Arts Sponsorship Award

Natürlich können Sie sich weiterhin die besten Filme des letzten Nachwuchspreises online ansehen!

Zum Intervideo Nachwuchspreis 2009:

Die Zahl der Einreichungen übertraf alle Erwartungen – 236 Einsendungen von jungen Filmemachern aus 31 Ländern bewarben sich um den ersten Preis in den Kategorien Dokumentation, Fiction und freie Arbeiten.

Die Preisverleihung fand am 15.11.2009 im Rahmen des Filmfestes „exground“ in der Caligari Filmbühne in Wiesbaden statt. Fünf der acht nominierten Filmteams kam zur persönlichen Übergabe der Preise.

Die 3 Siegerfilme, 2 davon in voller Länge, können Sie sich auf dieser Seite ansehen.

Über 20 weitere Filme der Shortlist finden Sie außerdem auf der Nachwuchspreis-Homepage.

www.Intervideo-Nachwuchspreis.de

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