{"id":21040,"date":"2014-01-19T18:23:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T18:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/?p=318452"},"modified":"2014-01-19T18:23:04","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T18:23:04","slug":"sustainable-food-and-farming-film-competition-submissions-due-feb-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/sustainable-food-and-farming-film-competition-submissions-due-feb-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable Food and Farming Film Competition: Submissions Due Feb. 3"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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The Real Food Media Contest<\/a> is looking for short films with big ideas. They are seeking captivating short films about food<\/a>, farming and sustainability that spark action and inspire change.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

“This contest gives an opportunity for filmmakers to generate powerful storytelling about food, farming and sustainability,” says Anna Lappé, director of the Real Food Media Project. “The more great minds we have thinking about these issues and producing creative ways to deliver the messages, the better.”<\/p>\n

Films should range in length from 30-seconds to four-minutes, using one of four different style prompts—Documentary Style, Experimental, Advocacy Style, Wildcard. Documentary style can profile “food heroes,” highlight a place that’s being revived through “community groups, local policy makers, or activists building healthy food and farming networks,” or show how local food can “take a bite out of climate change<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

The second is experimental style. They are looking for a film that can “bring to life the concept: the hands that feed us.” The third is advocacy and should focus on producing safer, more sustainable food, protecting human health, helping raise a healthy generation, keeping fields and farms safe for workers, or come up with your own advocacy pitch.<\/p>\n

The fourth category is a wildcard, which can include just about anything: “Come up with your own prompt about sustainable food and farming. Funny. Serious. Artsy. Make it worth our time and you might join the winners’ circle.” Click here<\/a> for submission guidelines.<\/p>\n

“There’s incredible interest today in where our food comes from and how it is produced—and this generation has so much to say about it. The contest provides a great platform for original voices that can help make a change by delivering this increasingly important information,” says journalist and contest judge Michael Pollan.<\/p>\n

The contest winner will receive $5,000<\/a> and have their film shown at the Food & Farm Film Fest<\/a> in San Francisco in April. Submission deadline<\/a> is Feb. 3 at 9 p.m. EST.<\/p>\n

Contest judges<\/a> include:<\/p>\n

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