Deadline: 27 March 2011
The Poetry Projection Project: A WritersCorps Film Event
Screenings: April 16 and 19, 2011
The Poetry Projection Project is a new video contest held by WritersCorps, an award-winning creative writing program for youth. WritersCorps calls on filmmakers and video artists of all ages to create work based on selected poems by WritersCorps students. Videos will be screened during National Poetry Month in April 2011 at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, the San Francisco Public Library, and online at WritersCorps.org.
WritersCorps will award two $150 cash prizes, one prize to the best film made by an adult age 21 and over, and one prize to the best film made by a young person age 20 and under. Entries will be juried by a special guest from the film industry: filmmaker Peter Bratt.
Youth ages 12 to 18 will also have the chance to create videos from their own writing in a series of workshops hosted by WritersCorps and TILT (Teaching Intermedia Literacy Tools) at San Francisco’s Main Library in March 2011. The student work created in these workshops will screen at the Poetry Projection Project, but will not be eligible for the contest. Click here for more information about the workshops.
In keeping with WritersCorps’ mission of helping youth through creative expression, the Poetry Projection Project engages filmmakers to explore the power of young people’s words and voices.
Guidelines
Videos must include the entire text or audio of one poem by a WritersCorps student, found here: Poetry Projection Project - The Poems. Videos must credit the student and San Francisco WritersCorps.
Total Running Time: Videos must not exceed 5 minutes in length, including credits.
Styles: Submissions can be in any style or genre of video, including, but not limited to, narrative, experimental, film art/video art, documentary and animation.
Family Friendly Content: Videos must be suitable for screening at family venues that are open to all ages. Accordingly, we strongly discourage film contest submissions which contain nudity, sexually explicit imagery, profanity, or graphic depictions of violence.
Screening Format: If your entry is selected for public screenings at the Poetry Projection Project, you agree to provide an exhibition copy on DVD or as a QuickTime file under an Apple ProRes 422 codec.
Entry Form: All submissions must include a completed Entry Form and Release and Agreement. If you are under 18, consent from a parent, guardian or teacher is required as well at time of submission. There is no entry fee.
Deadline: Submissions must be uploaded to YouTube by 5 p.m. PST on March 27, 2011.
Evaluation Criteria: Videos will be judged on the basis of creativity, originality, quality, and artistic merit.
Submission via YouTube: All contest submissions must be uploaded via YouTube for judging. The use of YouTube for contest submissions does not imply an endorsement of the site or its parent company by WritersCorps.
Note: You may not see your video on YouTube immediately after uploading. Uploads can take time and all videos will first be reviewed by a site moderator. Be sure your uploads are complete and visible on YouTube by the contest deadline. We recommend allowing time for unforeseen difficulties. All videos posted to YouTube will be subject to YouTube’s privacy policy and may also be subject to applicable public records laws.
Please include the URL of your video in the entry form.
Questions? Please email ppp@writerscorps.org or call 415-252-2546.
Click here for the online Entry Form.