Children’s Media Project and The Hamptons International Film Festival seek outstanding original video and/or film work produced by young people across the country and the world. The Youth Media Program features a juried competition and a non-competitive section.
Competitive categories:
- SHORT NARRATIVE
- SHORT DOCUMENTARY
- SHORT EXPERIMENTAL
- SHORT ANIMATION
if your video does not fit in one of these categories, it may still be eligible for inclusion in the festival (we love PSAs, music videos, etc!)
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: July 21st, 2008, (late deadline: August 8th, 2008)
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Our primary interest is to discover outstanding original video and/or film work produced by young people across the country and around the world. The program will feature a juried competition and a non-competitive section, with screenings at The Hamptons International Film Festival (HIFF) for both programs.
The festival will offer awards to winning videos in the juried-competitive program, and cash and in-kind prizes to the Best Young Videomaker in the Golden Starfish Competition, the festival’s highest awards category. Please thoroughly check the submission guidelines and criteria to determine your eligibility.
Selected youth-produced shorts or excerpts (5 minutes or less) will be shown as trailers before adult-produced HIFF programs, where appropriate. We will try to match youth-produced videos with existing festival programs.
Our programmers and our panel of youth and adult/industry judges will take many qualities into consideration, including artistic originality, quality of presentation, production value, and the ability to communicate a message clearly. If your video is selected for the Youth Media Program at The Hamptons International Film Festival, you will receive written-feedback from our panel of youth videomakers, industry and filmmaker judges.
In our non-competitive program, we encourage intergenerational collaboration and group projects in all categories. What does this mean to us? We recognize that artistic growth occurs when young people work alongside adult artists and mentors. It is our goal to highlight these collaborations in the Youth Media Program. However, we are not interested in work that is conceived and executed primarily by adults. Please help us to maintain the integrity of this program.
Submitted videos will be considered for inclusion in DROP-TV, a television show produced by Children’s Media Project’s team of youth producers. Through our curation of the Youth Media Program at the Hamptons International Film Festival, we are able to identify and evaluate some of the best short videos being produced by young people from throughout the United States and around the world. Through DROP-TV, we can further highlight the work of young artists.
SUBMISSION DEADLINES
Deadline: July 21st, 2008
Entry Fee: $15 per organization/filmmaker (i.e. If you want to submit 5 films from your organization, you need only send $15 with your entries).**
Videomakers submitting videos from outside of the United States are exempt from entry fees.
Late Deadline: (arrive by) August 8th, 2008 ($30 per submission - check made out to Children's Media Project)
ELIGIBILITY
These regulations apply to all sections:
Age of young videomaker(s): 19 or younger*
Length of submission: 20 minutes or less (excerpts are accepted)
Submission format: miniDV and DVD (if PAL format, send Quicktime files on DVD)
Completion date: Films must have been completed after June 1st, 2006.
Previously submitted films: CMP will not consider previously submitted films.
Definition of “Youth-Produced”: We realize that much of your work is produced with the support and guidance of adults – your parents, teachers, or workshop instructors. However, for all submissions, we must ask that TWO out of the following four roles must have been fulfilled by young people, age 19 and under. To be eligible for competition, ALL of the following roles on each film or video must be filled by young people, age 19 and under:
- Director – Shapes the vision of the film and has significant creative input in each step of the filmmaking process.
- Writer – Develops the story idea and/or writes the script.
- Camera – In charge of videotaping/filming your video.
- Editor – Young people may have edited the video independently, or may have worked alongside an adult editor who followed the youth editor’s guidance.
| COMPETITION – AWARDS & CRITERIA
Films selected for the festival may be eligible for the following competitions:
YOUNG VIDEOMAKER GOLDEN STARFISH COMPETITION
This is a special program that honors the independent efforts of young artists. The winner will receive a cash prize and invitation to the Golden Starfish Awards Night at the Hamptons International Film Festival where the award will be presented.
“BEST OF” AWARD COMPETITION
An award will be presented for the best video in each of the competitive categories.
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Send all submissions to:
Emily Bennison (ATTN: HIFF)
Children's Media Project
Lady Washington Firehouse
20 Academy Street
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
Submissions will not be returned - please do not send masters. Make entry fee check out to Children's Media Project.
*Note: This program is not intended for college students. For information about HIFF’s college student competition, contact Jeremiah Newton at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10003. Email: jay.newton@nyu.edu, Telephone 212-998-1760. College student application forms also available at www.hamptonsfilmfest.org.)
**Please contact Emily at 845-485-4480 if the entry fee presents an obstacle for you.
