Grants and Contests for Youth Filmmakers
VIDEO CONTEST
Community Values and Immigration
Here is the link
http://www.movementvisionlab.org/blog/1000-video-contest-community-values-immigration
Here is the description:
We know that, as a country and as a world, we’re all in it together and we’re more than the sum of our parts. That goes for both sides of the border. What would it mean to value everyone equally, no matter where they come from and how they got here? How would you tell America that immigration is about Community Values?
TO ENTER
Create a short video under three minutes (3 mins) in length and submit it through You Tube to the Community Values & Immigration Video Contest. Your video can be fictional or documentary, live action or animation, any form you want it to take. Just make sure it tells a positive story about the immigration and Community Values. To learn more about Community Values, check out this short film.
The deadline for entries is 5:00pm EST on February 29, 2008.
CRITERIA & PRIZE
The winner will be selected by the staff of the Movement Vision Lab (with no right of appeal) and announced on the Movement Vision Lab website and You Tube. The winning film, as well as runners up, will be shown on the Movement Vision Lab website and distributed to immigrant rights organizations across the United States. The winning filmmaker will receive a check for $1000 from the Center for Community Change.
GRANT OPPORTUNITY
The Chicago Instructional Technology Foundation requests proposals from Chicago area filmmakers working on projects that could produce social change. CITF seeks to fund content that reflects the diversity of the human experience, advances under-represented points of view, compels public dialogue, and produces social change.
There are three categories for funding:
The CITF Established Filmmakers Production Grant provides grants to established filmmakers who are defined as professional filmmakers who have completed projects that were considered for screening or were screened at major film festivals.
The CITF New Filmmaker’s Production Grant provides grants to emerging filmmakers who are defined as anyone 18 years of age or older who has some experience in filmmaking.
The CITF Youth Filmmaker’s Production Grant provides grants to youth filmmakers who are defined as filmmakers18-years old or younger.
Productions already underway with a completion scheduled within the next year are most encouraged.
Please visit the website at www.citf.org
September 7th, 2007 at 10:37 am We have long had concerns about foundations funding media conglomerates to provide public service content. So, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s recent award of $700,000 to MTV was troubling for us. The grant, part of Knight’s News Challenge awards, was so MTV can create “a Knight Mobile Youth Journalist (Knight “MyJosâ€) in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia to report weekly – on cell phones, and other media – on key issues including the environment, 2008 presidential election and sexual health.†Viacom’s 2006 revenues were $11.5 billion. Don’t you think there’s enough left over to pay for the mobile journalism program! The idea that MTV should be subsidized for contributing to public service is wrong-headed. Besides, MTV is engaged in such mobile activities to help build up its brand so it can earn more online advertising dollars.Journalism foundations such as Knight–and J-Schools–should be holding the media industry’s editorial feet to the fire, shaming them to spend more money on serious journalism. Knight should not be funding media conglomerates whose owner resides comfortably in Beverly Hills. Meanwhile, it what raises some interesting questions about “insider funding,†we note that Viacom’s MTV VP Ian Rowe serves on the Knight Foundation advisory committe for journalism. Rowe is quoted in the Knight Foundation press release announcing its News Challenge grants as a grantee spokesperson.
Now Knight is again teaming with Viacom’s MTV to give away $500,000 to support “young people who have ideas for pushing journalism into the digital age.†It’s called the “Young Creators Award.†We hope all the money has come from Viacom. By the way, Knight and media beat reporters should be asking what MTV is doing with the data it can collect from mobile users. Will it engage in targeting for its other products? In what ways are the Knight supported work designed to build up the commercial role of MTV? How much is such pro-social ad campaigns worth to Viacom’s bottom-line?