Festival Screening: Sunday, Nov. 6, 2016 at Cine in Athens, Ga. Awards: $1,000 Grand Prize, $500 Second Prize, $100 Third Prize
Video Guidelines: Open to all Georgia filmmakers. Film must include primarily original content (all secondary content must and focus on a progressive issue affecting Georgia (see suggestions below). All films must include a call-to-action and/or propose solutions to the
problem/issue on which the film focuses. The film must be between 2 and 15 minutes in length. The competition is open to films in any genre (documentary, short, animation, music video, etc.). Submission process: Entrants will submit films to [email protected] via unlisted (not password protected) YouTube links. Better Georgia will review all films and select the top five as semifinalists. Better Georgia will notify semifinalists and post their films to Better Georgia’s page for the one-week online voting stage. Semifinalist filmmakers are encouraged to promote their film to their online network. The film with the most combined Facebook ‘likes’ and ‘shares’ at the end of the online voting period will be the grand prize winner. The film with the second-most ‘likes’ and ‘shares’ will be the second-prize winner, and so on. All semi-finalist films will be screened at Cine on Nov. 8. Suggested issues: Health care, women’s rights, rural hospital crisis, LGBTQ rights, civil rights, workers’ rights, voting rights, poverty, income inequality, privatization of prisons, K-12 education, higher education, student loan debt, corporate welfare, environment, clean energy, public transportation, affordable housing, land use, transparency/corruption in government, food production, water access…
For more information: Visit www.CauseAndEffectFilm.org
