The Trailer Trashed Film Contest Winners Announced
Predictions of marauding zombies, post apocalyptic landscapes where all the trees have been consumed, and a murder mystery most foul are amongst the winning plot lines in the inaugural Trailer Trashed - Reel Environmentalism short film contest. The contest, launched last November by the Recycling Council of B.C., and designed to elicit entries formatted like movie trailers about reducing disposable coffee cup use, attracted entries from as far away as Thailand. Click here for more info...
Create the most awesome trailer and win cash and other cool prizes….
Ever seen a movie trailer and thought…..wow, that was so cool! Or….wow, that was so lame?
Well, here’s your chance to put on your producer/director/art director/cinematographer/sound engineer/actor and voice actor hats all at once and produce the most mind blowing enviro-trailer of all time!!
The Recycling Council of B.C. is proud to announce
Trailer Trashed
an environmental short film competition that harnesses your creativity to convince the world to stop making garbage!
But this is a film competition with a twist. All the entries must be in the form of a movie trailer and they all have to convey this year’s waste reduction theme, which is:
Say NO to disposable coffee cups! Each year in North America we throw away billions of paper coffee cups, wasting trees and creating unnecessary garbage. Create a trailer that helps people make the choice to refuse to use disposable coffee cups!
You can use animation, live action, lego, toy soldiers, sock puppets, your family’s dog, your little brother or whomever else you can convince…and the trailer can take the style of any movie genre like horror, comedy, sci-fi, historical, action flick, love story, buddy movie, chick flick….well, you get the idea. Remember, whether you make it look like it's a movie about something else or make it just about cups and waste, it's all up to you and your creativity.
There are a few simple rules to follow (see the list below). Please make sure you read and follow the rules or your entry will not be accepted.
Entries will be judged by a panel of RCBC staff, sponsor representatives and film industry experts. Winners will be contacted in March 2010. Winners names and videos will be published in April 2010.
Contest rules:
Contest opens on November 16, 2009, and all entries must be uploaded to the Vimeo.com Trailer Trashed Channel by midnight Pacific Time on Sunday February 28, 2010.
Submissions must be between 30 seconds and 3 minutes in length
You may submit as many unique entries as you wish
Submissions must convey this year’s waste reduction theme. (see above)
Entries must be in the format of a movie trailer.
Entries can utilize any film genre and production. (Watch our trailer for inspiration!)
Submissions containing sexually explicit material will not be accepted. We will not accept videos that incite hatred, include hate speech or depict abuse or extreme violence.
Submissions must be entirely original material created by you. Please do not use screen grabs or footage from a film, TV show, video game or commercial. An homage is one thing, lifting other people’s creative is quite another and is not acceptable.
Contest is open to anyone, amateur or professional, and there is no age limit. If you are under the age of 16 you must let a parent know that you are entering the contest as the prize cheque will have to be made out in their name, should you win.
Your entry must include a screen with your email address so that we know how to contact you.
All videos submitted must be available under shared copyright for ongoing use by RCBC.
If you are going to use music in your video please ensure that you have the legal right to do so. Many musicians have licensed their work for use under creative commons copyright. Please ensure that you are not using music for which a licensing fee must be paid.
The Recycling Council of B.C. reserves the right to not award any prizes should the number and quality of videos received not meet the organization's requirements. All uploaded video entries become available for use by the Recycling Council of B.C. and will be distributed as widely as humanly possible. Upon notification, winners must be prepared to send a hi-res DVD version of their entry to the Recycling Council for its use.
