PSA Competition open for High School Students
Over $20,000 in prizes are available for Michigan high school filmmakers through Meijer Great Choices Student Film Festival. The Meijer Family Foundation, M.E. Davenport Foundation, The Van Singel Fine Arts Center and Celebration Cinema, are excited to announce the kick off of the second annual Film Festival.
The competition is designed for Michigan high school student filmmakers and audio/video students to showcase their creative talent in communications. Participants must submit a 30-second Public Service Announcement promoting positive choices in the areas of Character Education, Healthy Lifestyles, and/or Celebrating Diversity. There are two different audiences that the A/V students target in their PSA’s, Kindergarten through 6th or 7th through12th grades.
Deadline for submission is February 15, 2010. Students and their teachers can download registration materials and guidelines at, www.meijergreatchoices.com.
Audio/Visual students and professors from Michigan universities are the preliminary judges and choose the semi-finalists. The top three winners from each category will receive prizes of $2,000, $1,000, or $500 in the form of a gift certificate to a merchant of their choice (Meijer, Apple, or Dell). There will be eighteen 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners. Over $20,000 in cash prizes will be awarded at a VIP ceremony and reception tentatively scheduled for Saturday, June 5, 2010.
The winning PSA’s in each category will be reproduced on DVDs and distributed to schools across the state as tools for their Character Education, Health Education and Diversity programs. DVD’s will also be made available to all Meijer Stores for in-store airing, and to the media.
The purpose of the film festival is to highlight the talent of our state’s film and audio/visual students while allowing these students to make a positive impact on our state’s K-12 youth.
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