Call for Submissions: World's First Pro-Life Film Festival, Cinema Vita
This news should be of special interest to some readers. Marjorie gives us the goods:They are looking for submissions spanning 3-5 minutes in 3 categories: high school, college and open. For each there is a cash prize of $250 and a Canon HG10 High Definition Camcorder (value $1100)."The Cinema Vita Film Festival has been established to encourage young, emerging filmmakers and to showcase movies about contemporary issues concerning the meaning and value of life. Coordinated by the San Francisco Archdiocesan Office of Public Policy, the Oakland Diocesan Respect Life Ministry, Marriage for Life, and Ignatius Press, the festival is based on the recognition that art, especially the medium of film, shapes the popular imagination and has a tremendous influence on culture."
Read the submission criteria here. Entries must be postmarked by February 14, early entries encouraged.
Here, again, is the official website.
More details:
The winning films will be shown at the festival on March 7, 2008 at the Delancy Street Theater in downtown San Francisco, along with the award-winning feature film After the Truth, a provocative look at a fictional trial of Dr. Josef Mengele, the notorious Angel of Death at Auschwitz.Ignatius Insight has an extensive article explaining the motivation and goal of the festival.
This is exactly the sort of innitiative I love prompoting at AmP. Get to it, you young media-savvy papists!
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