Image via WikipediaBCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, has launched “Digital Revolutions” a short film competition, with Sheffield Doc/Fest, the biggest documentary film festival in the UK andCrossover, an international digital media and content programme.
To enter, participants must submit films up to three minutes long, showing how they see the world they live in and how information and information technology impacts it. The aim is to build the largest creative picture of what information and information technology means for Great Britain today.
According to Elizabeth Sparrow, BCS President:
“We want people in the UK to tell us how their lives have been changed by information and information technology and what this might mean for their communities in the future. We think this will be the biggest ever information competition to unlock the public’s creativity and we’ve teamed up with Sheffield Doc/Fest and Crossover to deliver that”.
Creativity and skill alone aren’t enough. The competition requires entrants to use social media to get their films noticed. Building a fan base for your film will be as challenging as creating the film itself.
To enter, films must be uploaded to YouTube, tagged digitalrevolutions and an entry formcompleted and submitted to digitalrevolutions@bcs.org
There’s a £10,000 prize for the best amateur film and £5,000 prize for the best professional film. Entries close on 15 October and the winner (announced on the 5th November at the annual Sheffield Doc/fest), will be chosen by a panel of judges including award winning directors Kevin Macdonald and David Bond.
- You can check out some of the entries so far by logging on to the Digital Revolutions YouTube channel
- If you’d like further information about Digital Revolutions, including full terms and conditions,click here.
