Sustainability film challenge for young New Zealanders

'To The Rescue', last year's The Body Shop Standout Winner in the 2014 Someday Challenge, is one of several to have received a nomination from an international film festival. Photo / Mason Packer

The Outlook for Someday film challenge lends young kiwi filmmakers a hand, helping take them to international audiences.

Five winning films from Someday Challenge 2014 have since received nominations in international film festivals.

Entries in this year's challenge are now open, and will be until the 11th of September. New Zealanders aged up to 24 are asked to make sustainability-related films of any genre, filmed with any camera, lasting for up to 5 minutes in length.

20 winning films will be selected by judges, from backgrounds including media, education, government and business. The filmmaker or team who worked on each winning entry will receive their prizes - including a commitment that their film will be entered into at least one international film festival in 2016 - at The Someday Awards ceremony at Auckland's Aotea Centre in December.

The prize for the film chosen as The Body Shop Standout Winner is a mentorship with Te Radar and filmmaker Peter Bell.

Films from last year's challenge that have made it into festivals include Open Your Eyes by a team aged 14-15 from Timaru. It has been nominated for the Seoul International Youth Film Festival.

Te Ao o te Tuturuatu by 11-year-oldTomairangi Harvey of Christchurch, has been nominated for the Japan Wildlife Film Festival. Tomairangi is the youngest film-maker ever to have a film chosen by the festival, and hopes to travel to Tokyo for the festival in August.

Beeing a Honey Maker by a team aged 11-13 from Lower Hutt has been nominated for the Green Screen International Wildlife Film Festival in Germany.

If Life Was Like The Web by 14 year-old Angus Slade (Lower Hutt) is going to be in the Seoul International Youth Film Festival.

And last but not least, To The Rescue by 15 year-old Mason Packer from Kapiti, which was The Body Shop Standout Winner in 2014, has also received a nomination from the Seoul International Youth Film Festival.

The Someday Challenge is now in its 9th year. The Outlook for Someday project also includes a nationwide series of free sustainability film making workshops, which take place from June to August.

Find out how to enter at http://www.theoutlookforsomeday.net.

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