Focus Forward Short Films, Big Ideas launches a Filmmaker challenge
26 January 2012: Focus Forward Short Films, Big Ideas has launched a Focus Forward Filmmaker Challenge for filmmakers who have ideas for the three-minute nonfiction films around the theme of invention and innovation.
Focus Forward Films is giving away $200,000 in cash prizes to the top five entries, with $100,000 going to the Grand Prize Winner. Submissions will open in mid April and winners will be announced at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
Creative Brief
Focus Forward films is looking for professionally produced, three-minute end-to-end stories about people or organizations whose innovative efforts in medicine, computer science, robotics, engineering, green energy, or other fields of applied technical knowledge have had a significant positive impact on humanity. Recent, cutting-edge inventions that are changing how people live today are of special interest. Submitted films must be three minutes in length.
Why Enter?
This is the biggest challenge of its kind. A filmmaker can win up to $100,000 if his film is judged by Focus Forward to be the best of the best films submitted. Other prizes include one $50,000 cash prize, one $30,000 cash prize, and two $10,000 cash prizes.
Winning films and possibly other submissions will be distributed globally alongside Focus Forward films made by Steve James, Jessica Yu, Morgan Spurlock, Lucy Walker, and other award-winning filmmakers. Winners will also be flown to the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, in January 2013 where they will be awarded their prizes.
For more information visit Focus Forward Films website.
