@Surfrider Have extra footage from ur 3sec movie? Recycle! Drop-by-Drop YOUTH Film Contest seeks 60sec videos on WATER. http://t.co/WXnqiKrc
SCFFI will hold a contest and select seven to ten students, age 8 to 18 from around the world. Partner organizations will help to identify the young people who will participate.
Once students are selected, each will receive a camera, and 2 hours of tape. Their job will be to document the water issues in their region, country. They will have several months to shoot the footage and send the tapes back to the USA.
One or more of the students will be selected by the sponsor and SCFFI staff, by having the best footage on the two hour tapes, and that student and a parent will receive free travel to New Orleans; and will receive an award and to speak at the final ceremony after the final film has screened.
Once in New Orleans, Michael Nash along with an editor and an assistant editor will create a film based on the footage sent in by our students.
We will also have two high school students who live in New Orleans shooting film (only during the week of the festival), regarding the New Orleans water issues that will be included in the film.
The final film which should run around 15 to 20 minutes and will be shown at the final evening event. The film will focus a child’s point of view of water issues from around the world. This film will also include selections from the youth submissions to the Drop by Drop: Water Stories contest.
Writer/Director/Producer
Michael Nash is a Irish/American filmmaker who was recently an honored recipient of the Global Innovation Award, Senator Boxer’s 2010 Conservation Champion Award and the 2010 Neiman Marcus Environmental Visions Filmmaker Award. Michael Nash’s current documentary, the multi-award winning Climate Refugees was the only film screened by the United Nations at the recent IIEA Copenhagen Climate Change Conference for world leaders and policymakers. Nash has served on various panels as an expert on climatic migrations, the human face of climate change, climate security issues and green solutions. Climate Refugees had its world premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, and was noted by Robert Redford in the NY Times “as an agent for social change.” Michael is currently traveling with WGA (Writers Guild of America) illuminating climate and health to storytellers around the world. Nash’s first feature, the critically acclaimed film titled “Fuel,” won top feature film honors around the globe. Nash has created a digital-video exploration montage for the Getty Museum, been involved in television programming development, and music video production. Currently Nash has three television shows in development/pre-production, with Fremantle (American Idol and America’s Got Talent), the second is package by William Morris and in partnership with music producer Red One (U2 and Lady Gaga’s) and the third is with the non-profit ORBIS, “The Flying Eye Hospital”. Michael Nash is represented by Mosaic Media.
Drop by Drop: Water Stories, a video contest for youth created by the Social Change Film Festival & Institute (SCFFI), Channel G and EarthvisionZ, is now accepting submissions.
