A Los Angeles High School Environmental Film Contest Calling all High School Students in Los Angeles!
The UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability is searching for future environmentalists and filmmakers to participate in Green Shorts: An Environmental Film Contest for L.A. Students
Individuals can submit up to one film per category
Films must be less than three minutes in length
Deadline to submit to the 5th annual GreenShorts competition is April 23, 2021! For categories and more information, visit: https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/greensparks/greenshorts-southern-california/
06/09/2021
🥇 🎥 🌍 We’re so excited to host this year’s GreenShorts virtual film competition ceremony tomorrow, Thursday June 10 @ 4pm PT! Congratulations to all of our filmmakers and finalists. Cannot wait to reveal the winners tomorrow!
Students, you were sent the Zoom link via email. Feel free to send to your family and friends so they can vote for your film for the Audience Choice Award!
04/23/2021
Today’s the last day to submit your short films, SoCal high school students!!! Link in bio to submit. We are excited to see your films! 🎥 Good luck!
🌎 📅 Just one more week to go! Your 3-min environmental short films are due Friday, April 23! We are excited to see some great films about the environment and sustainability! Submit soon!
Check out the links in our bio to submit and find submission rules and judging criteria!
03/30/2021
🎥 🌎 Our partners at MyHero Project co-hosted a video production workshop to give students pointers and tips on how to film short environmental videos. This video guides students' story ideas in pre-production, gives at-home filming tips for production, and gives ideas on the many ways they can edit their film in post-production. Check out the video -https://youtu.be/_GJozs4wfZM
Southern California & Louisiana high school students! The UCLA GreenShorts film submission deadline is approaching. Short films are due Friday, April 23! We are excited to see some great films about the environment and sustainability! Submit soon!
https://youtu.be/_GJozs4wfZM
02/02/2021
Hello, Southern California and Louisiana high school students! ✍️🎥 📝 You are invited to an 826LA GreenShorts Screenwriting Workshop! Part 1 will take place Saturday, February 27 from 11am -1 pm PT, and Part 2 will take place Sunday, February 28 from 11am - 1pm PT. We encourage you to attend both Saturday and Sunday, but Part 2 on Sunday is optional.
Workshop leader, screenwriter, and teacher Yásaman Madadi will teach about the basic components of screenwriting for a documentary or narrative short film. Upon completion of parts 1 and 2, you will create a completed fiction or non-fiction script.
RSVP to attend by Thursday, February 25! Link to RSVP: https://forms.gle/bD3a84WFAmAnRR3v6
01/29/2021
High school students in Southern California & Louisiana! You are invited to a MY HERO GreenShorts Video Production Workshop on Saturday, March 6 from 10am - 12pm PST via Zoom! The MY HERO Project is collaborating with UCLA's GreenShorts film festival to present a free workshop that will give you pointers and tips on how to film short environmental videos. We'll help guide your story ideas in pre-production, give at-home filming tips for production, and give ideas on the many ways you can edit your film in post-production. RSVP and register to attend by Friday, March 5! Link in bio to register and join us! We hope to see you there! 🎥 ✨
01/22/2021
✍️ This year we introduced a new category, Power Poetry, where you can use the spoken-word art form to express your environmental concerns. Need inspiration? Look no further than the remarkable Youth Poet Laureate of the United States Amanda Gorman and her poem, “Earthrise.” Link in bio to view her film & submit your Power Poetry to the GreenShorts Film competition by April 23!
“It is a hope that implores us at an uncompromising core to keep rising up for an Earth more than worth fighting for." ~ Amanda Gorman ✨
Shout out to her alma mater, our friends & partners New Roads School!! 🏫
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwOvBv8RLmo
01/19/2021
📱 🎥 Use all the resources at your disposal! That includes TikTok! Shoot, add effects, add transitions and create to your heart’s content. Then, edit up to three 60-second clips together using your phone or other editing software. We cannot wait to see your environmental films! Be sure to submit by April 23, 2021!!
Also, stay tuned! We’ll announce a writing workshop and a producing workshop designed to help you film at home and/or at a social distance!
01/14/2021
🥇Here’s an excellent example of a short film SoCal high schoolers can submit for the 2021 GreenShorts film festival! Take a look at the Climate Hero category winning film, “Pasta La Vista Plastic Waste” by Ben Caloza! Congratulations to Ben whose film also won for the 2020 MY HERO International Film Festival High School Environmental category!
Link in bio to view this creative film! 🎥
Plastic pollution is a plague on our beautiful California beaches. How can we fight it? Well, one beach in Malibu, CA seems to have a creative solution: the PASTA STRAW!
09/02/2020
Are you a student that submitted a film to this year’s GreenShorts film competition? If so, a GreenShorts judge would like to invite you to submit your short film to the My HERO International Film Competition! STUDENT FILMMAKERS SUBMIT FOR FREE. Send in your film by 10/1 using the code MYHEROIFF. Link in bio!
The MY HERO International Film Festival brings together professional and youth filmmakers who honor local and global heroes working for positive change in the world.
Prizes are awarded to elementary, middle school, high school, college and professionals in a variety of categories including: documentary, narrative, music video, animation, experimental, and more.
Deadline to submit is October 1! Good luck! 🎥
