Deadlines
Changemaker Film Competition 2018
Reserve your seats at peeryfilms.byu.edu for the Peery Film Festival.
The submissions are in!
We'd like to thank all those who participated in the 2018 Changemaker Film Competition!
We invite anyone with interest in the competition to view the winning entries, which will be featured in the Peery Film Festival. The festival will be held Nov 1-10, with screenings of the competition winners on:
-Nov 7th, 6pm , 3380 WSC
-Nov 8th, 6pm, 3380 WSC, with the award ceremony immediately following this screening
Changemaker Film Competition Details
Submit Solutions-Focused Films by Oct 15
The BYU Ballard Center Changemaker Film Competition invites BYU students and BYU alumni to tell the stories of people solving social problems.
Submissions are due Monday October 15, 2018.
Enlighten us with your creative storytelling about a social problem and solution. We're looking for creative films that feature innovative, impactful, sustainable, scalable solutions that promote self-reliance.
Your film can be any genre or style. We're welcoming mini documentaries, advertisements, marketing pieces, animations, etc.
The BYU Changemaker Film Competition, held in conjunction with the Peery Film Festival, is hosted by the BYU Ballard Center and sponsored by the Peery Social Entrepreneurship program. The best submissions will be screened during the Peery Film festival on November 7-10, 2018 in the Wilkinson Center on the BYU Provo campus.
For more information, please call the Ballard Center at 801-422-5283 or email Rose Palmer (rose_palmer@byu.edu).
Information and Details
Prize Distribution
$8,000 in cash prizes will be awarded for excellent films.
Prize distribution and categories are subject to change, but last year’s prizes were distributed as follows:
- 1st place film - $3,000
- 2nd place film - $2,000
- 3rd place film - $1,000
- Audience choice - $1000
Feedback Sessions
You may submit drafts of your film for feedback.
Submit by July 1, 2018 at 11:55pm for feedback on your storyboard. This feedback will be helpful to make sure the problem and solution you have chosen to feature are well developed.
Submit by September 1, 2018 at 11:55pm for feedback on your film draft. Come with your film as finished as possible. Our professional partners will give you advice on storytelling and post-production.
Judging Criteria for the Changemaker Film Competition
Please take a few minutes to watch this breakdown of an exemplary Changemaker Film to better understand the elements we hope to see in entries submitted to the competition.