"It's Global."
Juried public health film making competition

Enter 2008 Contest Visit the 2008 PSA Contest Page

Call for Entries
Submission deadline extended to March 19, 2007

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'Beautiful People'
Wins Film Contest

"Beautiful People," a 30-second PSA advocating organ donation, won the first "It's Global" public health film contest, sponsored by the University of Minnesota Center for Public Health Preparedness."

• View the winning entry
• View all entries

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Pollution. Clean water. Refugee health. Preparing for disasters. Nutrition. Infectious disease. Access to health care. Climate change.

It's global.

What do you have to say?

Filmmakers have the craft to create sophisticated messages. Public health professionals spend a good deal of time working on important messages for large audiences. People everywhere know something about health conditions where they live and, more than ever, have the technical and conceptual skills to craft a message.

Mini-commercials, such as five-second adlets and even one-second blinks are poised to reach past TiVo and other digital video recorders’ capability to skip ads. Videos of this length are uniquely well-suited to become the new format of advertising on the Web. Digital cinema holds the promise of regional short-form programming before the feature. And 3G for cell phones has created another venue, possibly the farthest-reaching yet, for visual storytelling.

What are the health conditions where you live and what do you have to say about them? Anyone can be a filmmaker. Camcorder, camera phone, digital camera, super 8, flipbook animation, or even voice mail can all be used as a production tools, as long as it can become digital video.

Deadline

CALL FOR ENTRIES deadline March 12, 2007

Films will be judged in two categories by total program time (without credits):

• Short form (10 seconds or less)

• Long form (11 to 30 seconds)

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How to Submit Entries

Send full source digital video on DVCAM, MiniDV, DVD-R, CD-R, but NOT DVD, to:

Contest
2221 University Ave. S.E., Suite 350
Minneapolis, MN 55414

* Electronic delivery arrangements may be made in cases where international shipping is cost-prohibitive.

Please include:

• A signed copy of the Contest Rules / Public Health Film Festival Agreement (PDF)
• An English transcript of all dialogue and/or voiceover in the film

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Select entries will screen at the National Public Health Week Film Festival, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 2-7, 2007.

Sponsored by University of Minnesota School of Public Health and University of Minnesota Center for Public Health Preparedness in partnership with Independent Feature Project Minnesota.

For more information, please contact:
film@umn.edu

Contest Rules

Entrants will have the opportunitiy to learn to describe concisely a public health problem, identify a potential solution to that problem, and present via film media a clear call to action regarding that problem.

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This activity is sponsored by the University of Minnesota Center for Public Health Preparedness supported in part through a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Grant/Cooperative Agreement Number U90/CCU524264. The contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of CDC.