Strong Families Youth Online Film Fest curated by Media Literacy Project
Official Entry Form
Deadline to Enter: January 31, 2015 Postmark by this date. No late entries will be accepted.
Festival Date: March 2015
The Strong Families Youth Film Fest is a national online film festival curated by Media Literacy Project for Strong Families. We are looking for short videos created by youth ages 14-24 that address social issues that impact their everyday lives. We are interested in stories of all video genres that relate topics such as comprehensive sex education, access to healthcare and health information, gender identity, sexuality, body image, reproductive rights, immigration rights, environmental justice and health impacts on people, pregnancy and birth, parenting, childcare access, safety, education reform, prison justice, food justice, or any social justice issue that impacts the strength of families. The videos can be of almost any genre including documentary, narrative, comedy, PSA, music video, or animation. Videos will be judged by a panel of youth, social justice educators and organizers, and professional media makers. Those entries selected will appear in our online film festival in March 2015 on the Strong Families website.
Rules for Submission:
1. The video must have been created by youth ages 14-24 at the time of production.
2. Adult mentorship and guidance on the youth video is acceptable. However, the video concept and
production must have been led by young people.
3. The video must have been completed after September 1, 2012.
4. The video must be ten minutes or less in length.
5. The message of the video must focus on some type of social justice issue.
6. The video must be in English or have English subtitles.
7. Only three entries per person/director. There is NO limit on entries per school or organization.
8. Entrant must have the rights to all included content and music within the video.
9. Your video must be a high resolution copy in mp4 format submitted on a DVD along with your
complete and signed entry form.
10. Media Literacy Project and Strong Families reserve the right to not select and screen any film