Three new contests for vloggers and online filmmakers
From the brilliant Global Voices website , comes news of three contests for vloggers around the world. Two are on Spannish sites but are open to anyone anywhere. One is for mobile movies, one to
promote causes you care for and the last to report news through online
video. More details and sample films from previous winners at Global Voices :
From Spain, ElPais.com brings us the Movil Film Fest, an online mobile 1 minute video contest. Although it is geared primarily to locally made movies, which they call “national”, there are no restrictions regarding nationality of the producers, although only the local films will compete for the main awards, videos from outside Spain will have their own category. All the videos have to be less than 1 minute long and have been shot with cell phones or PDAs, what they call mobile communication terminals. There is time until April 21st 2008 to submit a video...
The second contest is a worldwide contest based on myspace.com
social networking site. They are requesting for youth between 14 and 24
years of age from all around the world to “Film your issue” in more
than 30 seconds but less than 2 minutes. Prizes include internships at
different organizations such as USA Today, The United Nations and the
Humane Society, however there are citizenship restrictions and mostly
the winners will have to pay for their tickets, lodging and meals
during their internships, and the $5000 USD College scholarship is only
valid for US citizens, making the prizes themselves less attractive for
international participants. However, the winning videos would be
broadcast on different networks, TV stations and websites, making
street cred and bragging rights the likelier reward for the foreign
participants. Already some videos have been uploaded for this contest,
and participants have time until April 14th to participate in any of
the several issue categories.
Another chance to win money and make a name for yourself is the citizen journalism video contest is being organized by VideoNews24.net[es] . Although it is used mostly by Spanish vloggers (video bloggers), it is open to any person who wishes to participate. The contest opened on March 1st and will run to July 31st. The top three videos will be chosen from those with more hits and highest ratings given by other users and then the winner chosen from them. The complete guidelines to participate can be found by following this link [es].