Thank You, Global Community, for Making This Contest a Success When we launched the Possible Futures Film Contest earlier this year, we invited each and every person on the planet to share the ideas, people, projects, technologies, and ways of living that could shift our direction toward a more positive future – and the response was incredible! As of the close of public voting today, tens of thousands of people in 162 countries around the world had watched and shared the powerful films submitted to this contest. Thank you to everyone who participated – your commitment to a fair, peaceful, READ MORE…
Thanks, Filmmakers! Now Get Ready to Vote
June 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Submissions for the 2011 Possible Futures Film Contest are now closed, but our team is busier than ever. We are screening all 317 of the compelling, astonishing, beautiful films submitted from 44 countries around the world. Our hearts are breaking and being refilled by your visions for our possible future, visions that are clear-eyed about the poverty, prejudice, violence, and hunger we’re facing, but just as clear-eyed about the solutions that already exist. To all the filmmakers, those who supported them, and everyone in our community who shared this contest with the world: Thank you! 3 Things You Can Do READ MORE…
Films Are Live: Watch Now & Share Your Favorites!
May 11, 2011 By 4 Comments
A seven-year-old girl smiling with her solar panel in the remote Himalayas. The drab colors of agribusiness as seen from the back of a monarch butterfly. Udaipur City’s only female auto rickshaw driver. You’ll find all of this and more on our Watch & Vote page, unveiled today! Voting won’t officially begin until June 28th, but starting now you can share your favorite films with all your social networks. Each film has a unique URL and links to share on Facebook and Twitter are one click away. Think of yourself as the director of programming for CNN, or the editor-in-chief READ MORE…
3 Bloggers With Inspiration & Resources You Can Use
May 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
One of the best parts of launching a film contest is getting to meet incredibly cool people. “Meet” being a relative term, of course, since we’re an online film contest. We’re so grateful for the support we’ve received from bloggers spreading the word about the Possible Futures Film Contest - on their blogs, or Facebook, or Twitter. Today we want to introduce you to three of them. They all offer inspiration and resources we think are really valuable to anyone working for a positive possible future, through film or in other ways. Who are your favorite bloggers? Where do you READ MORE…
Announcing the Flip Camera Winners!
April 13, 2011 By 1 Comment
We got a great response to our Early Bird challenge, and we’re thrilled to announce the 5 randomly selected winners of the HD Flip cameras. Picking the winners also turned out to be a fun part of this week’s staff meeting. The best part is that the winners (and the pool of participants we selected them from) reflect a global reach – exactly what we were hoping for when we launched this contest. Here’s some more info about each of them, excerpted from their filmmaker profiles (want one?). Look for their films to go live on our website later this READ MORE…
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