Green Unplugged Film Festival: Call for Entries

Culture Unplugged Studios will be launching 'Green Unplugged' - the festival where we unite to share our voices, not only as film-makers but culture-makers. The festival will facilitate contemplation, connection & celebration of life, culture & nature through cinema. We invite your green & socially conscious films that bring to light nature's demand to wake us to our future - an integrated individual and the human society. Share stories that reveal where we come from, our collective journey leading to our present and contemplating the path beyond.

With this, Culture Unplugged wishes to create a global community of conscious creatives and their audiences, to reflect on issues and life experiences in contemporary world – creatives/storytell ers wishing to express and exchange primarily through language of film (visual/aural communication), framing the spirit in motion.

FESTIVAL DATE : 2008-2009

FESTIVAL PARTNERS :
Barrie Osborne (Producer, New Zealand, 7 times - Oscar winner)
Michael Pyser (Producer, USA, Several Oscar Nomination)
Shekhar Kapoor (Film-maker/ Director, India, Oscar Nominated 2007)

Last date for receiving of the film 1st week of October, 2008

Awards/Rewards :
PEOPLE'S CHOICE (Best Rated) : $5000
POPULAR (Most Viewed) : Conversation with Conscious Creative
VIRAL (Most Shared/Linked) : Media Storage Unit - 300 GB
JURY'S CHOICE (Must View) : Premier Pass to Sundance Film Festival
FILM-MAKERS' CHOICE (Best Art) : $5000

To submit your film to us please go through the following information:

CRITERIA :
1) Films: On Social / Cultural / Environmental Issues.
2) Any form: Shorts (less than 15 min.) Short Features (upto 60 min.) Full Feature (upto 180 min.) + Mobi- films (upto 3 min.)
3) Film projects which are open to non-exclusive distribution (online and /or broadcast worldwide).
4) Films which are in English or suitably sub-titled in English (films originally produced in regional languages are welcome).

Multiple submissions welcome.

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If you participate in the festival, you will be contacted shortly prior to the launch of this festival. Post festival, we will be launching a permanent venue with the film archive with intention to promote transformative films and its film-makers on global level. With this venue we intend to create an open & transparent system for film-makers and facilitate dialogue among them, their audiences and other professionals to fertilize social consciousness.

For participation kindly fill the online form and send us the film/DVD . Multiple entries are welcome. Fill the individual form for each film.

To submit the form, please visit: http://www.cultureunplugged.com

For sending us the film our office address are
For India & SE Asia
Culture Unplugged Studios
Clover Centrum, 2nd Floor, Galaxy Society, Plot No.5, Boat Club Road, Pune 411001, Maharashtra, India
For USA, Canada & Europe:
Culture Unplugged Studios
1825 South Grant Street, Suite 200 San Mateo, CA 94402 USA
For Australia & New Zealand:
Culture Unplugged Studios
P.O. Box 21077 Henderson, Auckland, AZ

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