"It's Global."
Public Service Announcement Contest

Call for Entries deadline Noon, March 6, 2009

It's global.

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

What do you have to say?

Create a 30-second (or less) Public Service Announcement (PSA) about a health condition that is important to you. A PSA is a non-commercial advertisement typically on radio or television that is deemed “helpful” to the public.

Make your statement. If that's not motivation enough, there's a first-place prize of $500 for adults and $250 for youth.

Anyone can be a filmmaker.

Use a camcorder, camera phone, digital camera, super 8 camera, etc. in your production tools to create a PSA.

Deadline

CALL FOR ENTRIES deadline: Noon, March 6, 2009

Films will be judged in two categories, 30 seconds or less, without credits:

1. Youth: 17 and younger
   Grand Prize: $250
   Must have parent's signature.
   
   
2. Adult: 18 and older
   Grand Prize: $500
   Must turn 18 by March 6 to enter.

How to Submit Entries

Electronic Submissions

You will be able to upload submissions via Internet starting in January 2009.

Mail Submissions

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

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

Select entries will screen at the National Public Health Week Film Festival, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 6-10, 2009. Award Night is April 6, 2009.

Sponsored by University of Minnesota School of Public Health and IFP Minnesota.

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