Intervideo

Sustainability
Films Wanted! Intervideo Talent Award “Morgen sehen wir weiter” (“Tomorrow
we will see”). No entry fees.

For the second time since its successful debut in
2009, Intervideo Filmproduktion GmbH is announcing its Intervideo Talent Award.

This year, the
Intervideo Talent Award will be awarded in four film categories:

1.     
“Documentaries,”

2.     
“Fiction/Short
films,”

3.     
“Animations”
and

4.     
“Freestyle.”

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 too, after the entry period closes, an
independent jury will select the winning entries. Online submission is possible
via http://www.reelport.de

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:
http://www.intervideo-nachwuchspreis.de and
http://www.intervideo-filmproduktion.de

We look forward to receiving your entries and films!

Contact:

Intervideo Filmproduktion GmbH

“Intervideo Talent Award”

Sascha
Jost

Robert-Koch-Straße
11

55129 Mainz, Germany

Phone:+49 (0) 6131-250830

Fax: +49 (0) 6131-2508325

E-mail: kontakt@intervideo-nachwuchspreis.de

Web: http://www.intervideo-nachwuchspreis.de