#1 OUR FOOTPRINT ON EARTH

Do you want to show that overconsumption is a pressing problem? Have you made changes in your life to consume less or more ethical? Love fair trade? Prefer buying local?

If you made changes in your life to consume less or you know others who did, if you love fair trade or buying local – this is your category! Make a film about innovative ways to reduce consumption. Show how consumers can make ethical choices like purchasing food from small, nearby farms, choosing fair-trade or even producing food for themselves! Show how you reached zero waste in your household or make sustainable choices when buying. Show how it made your life better. Explain what drives you to change. Inspire others to do the same – or more.

If you are running a small business that works in sustainable ways consider submitting a film in this category.

• Make a film about overconsumption or the innovative ways to change or reduce it! Raise awareness and inspire others!

#2 TWO FACES OF EXPLOITATION

Do you see the dark side of raw material extraction, like mining or oil drilling? Are you aware that one million children work in mines all over the world? Do you think that such mining is not worth the social or environmental price?

Sometimes all is fine there, sometimes problems happen. Human rights get violated. People – sometimes indigenous peoples – get displaced without their consent and loose access to agricultural land. Children work there. Workers mine without protective clothing and proper equipment in environment that is hazardous to health. Accidents happen that may have been prevented. And then there are environmental problems – erosion, loss of biodiversity, contamination of water and soil and abandoned mines that nobody cares to close down properly.

• Shoot a film and raise your voice for the protection of people and nature!

#3 YOU ARE PART OF NATURE. LIVE WITH IT!

Let’s imagine there is a court process to decide whether to keep European nature or to get rid of it. The only evidence in favour of nature would be three short films. One of them would be yours.What film would that be?

One filled with beautiful memories or one with arguments on creating green jobs and generating other benefits for people? Would you show benefits that nature gives people – a forest that cleans drinking water, a wetland that saves villages from flood, a meadow that helps bees to make honey, a forest that cools the air (and let’s not forget the mushrooms), or swallows that catch mosquitoes? Would you argue for the establishment of the largest protected area network – or has it been done already?

• Make your stance for European nature!

FILM REQUIREMENTS

• COMPLETELY fill out the online application form for contest films!
• The films should not be longer that 4 minutes. The shorter the better. Aim for 60-90 seconds.
• Films can be of any genre (cartoon, animation, puppet film, documentary, interviews, etc.)
• Send us the original film file (in any film format) via the below detailed file transfer websites in high resolution (at least 720 px wide)
• Besides the film file send us the following files via Wetransfer (up to 2GB file size) or via My Air Bridge (up to 5GB file size):
  • time-coded subtitle file in English (.srt format). A separate time-coded subtitle file must be attached also to films without dialogues but with floating titles/texts. Only English subtitles are accepted!
  • 3 screenshots from the short film (.jpg format)
• One applicant can only submit a maximum of three films (separate online application should be filled out for each)

The winners of each of the three categories will be decided by a jury by 15 October. Please be aware if any of the criteria mentioned above is not met, we will not accept the application!