Announcing the Someday Challenge 2015 Winners
Announcing the Someday Challenge 2015 Winners
Young New Zealand film-makers speak out about what’s important to them
Voting Starts for Audience Favourite
This year’s winning films in The Outlook for Someday sustainability film challenge are announced today. They have been made by individuals and teams from 7 to 19 years old.
The 20 films (listed
below with synopses) can be watched at The Outlook for
Someday website.
www.theoutlookforsomeday.net
As well as films dealing with pressing environmental issues such as wetland restoration, species extinction and care for resources there are others which tackle challenging social issues such as bullying, sex slavery and body image pressure on young women.
There is also some edgy storytelling, including a dystopian vision of compulsory euthanasia and a powerful voice from South Auckland asking us to pay attention to youth suicide.
The Someday Challenge asks young people aged up to 24 to make short sustainability-related films of any genre, filmed with any camera and any length up to 5 minutes.
“This year's winners tackle big issues with bravery and flair,” says David Jacobs, Director of The Outlook for Someday. “Young people are not telling us what they think we want to hear. They're telling us to listen up to what's important to them.”
A Judging Team of 11 people from media, education, government and business selected the 20 winners out of 156 entries that came from all over New Zealand and involved 550 young people.
The winning film-makers will be honoured in The Someday Awards red-carpet ceremony at the Aotea Centre in Auckland on 10 December. For the first time the ceremony will also be live streamed, enabling families, friends, schools and communities of the winning film-makers to watch it all unfold from wherever they are.
As well as receiving their prizes the winning film-makers will find out which of the 20 Special Awards (listed below) they have each won and which film has been voted Element Audience Favourite.
The online vote for Element Audience Favourite starts today and closes at midnight onMonday 7 December.
The film-maker or team behind the film that wins the vote will receive a prize package that includes a Panasonic Lumix DMC-G7 Camera donated by Photogear.
The climax of the ceremony will be the announcement and screening of the film chosen as The Body Shop Standout Winner, for which the prize package includes a mentorship with Someday Ambassador Te Radar and director/writer/producer Peter Bell.
Now in its 9th year, The Outlook for Someday is New Zealand’s sustainability film project for young people. It includes an annual film challenge and a national series of sustainability film-making workshops.
The objective of the project is to help grow a generation of sustainability storytellers.
In 2015 over a thousand young people have participated in either the film challenge or the 32 free one-day and two-day workshops that took place throughout New Zealand from June to August.
THE 20 WINNING FILMS
Mountains for Malawi by Henry
Donald (18) from Auckland
Genre: Documentary
Synopsis:
Three young men undertake the challenge of cycling the
height of Mount Everest to raise money for a community in
Malawi.
The Birdwood Way by
a team from Birdwood School in Auckland (aged 7-8)
Genre:
Docudrama
Synopsis: Birdwood students demonstrate the
values at the heart of their school.
NVader by Hunter Williams (16)
from Auckland
Genre: Documentary
Synopsis: A covert
mission to save young girls from sex slavery leads to an
organisation that empowers local people to bring the
perpetrators to justice.
Whenua Finds a
Future by Sarah Ridsdale (14) from the
Palmerston North
Genre: Animated Drama
Synopsis:
Curious Whenua the Whio learns about his species from his
DOC ranger friend.
The Future is in Your
Hands by Lisa Thompson (17) from
Kapiti
Genre: Documentary
Synopsis: Why is sign
language, the third official language of New Zealand, not
offered as a subject in our secondary schools?
I Love Waiorongomai by Eva
Hakaraia (12) and Oriwa Hakaraia (12) from Te Kura-ā-Iwi O
Whakatupuranga Rua Mano in Otaki
Genre:
Documentary
Synopsis: A story of community conservation
in action to restore the health of Lake Waiorongomai.
Do You Want A Bag? by Alice
Emeny (15) from Chatham Islands
Genre: PSA
Synopsis:
An illustration of how one simple choice can have severe
consequences.
Message in a
Bottle by Liam van Eeden (17) and Jean-Martin
Fabre (17) from Verdon College in Invercargill
Genre:
PSA
Synopsis: The true cost of bottled water for both the
consumer and the planet.
The Jayke Hopa
Story by a team from Putaruru College in
Putaruru (aged 14)
Genre: Documentary
Synopsis: An
insight into the life of Jayke Hopa, and how he has taught
his school to include those who can’t see.
Biodiversity by a team from
Point England School in Auckland (aged 10-11)
Genre:
Animated Documentary
Synopsis: A colourful depiction of
our natural world and the importance of protecting species
from extinction.
Original by
a team from Craighead Diocesan School in Timaru (aged
14-15)
Genre: Video Essay
Synopsis: A young woman
challenges stifling social pressures and speaks out for
authenticity.
The Plastic
Reducers by a team from the Wellington region
(aged 8-14)
Genre: Music Video
Synopsis: A rapper’s
guide on taking steps to reduce, reuse and recycle.
The Healthy Wrap by a team from
Avalon Intermediate School in Lower Hutt (aged
11-13)
Genre: Music Video
Synopsis: The rhyme and
reason of good nutrition for healthy living.
Eutha-nation by Mason Cade
Packer (16) from Paraparaumu
Genre:
Mockumentary
Synopsis: Imagine a future where compulsory
euthanasia has been introduced to combat
over-population.
How to Write a
Submission by Anya Bukholt-Payne (15) from
Wellington
Genre: How To
Synopsis: A practical call to
action, empowering young people to engage in civic
issues.
UNstuck by a team
from Ellesmere College in Canterbury (aged 12-13)
Genre:
Silent Movie
Synopsis: A plea for the voiceless victim of
bullying, and a challenge for the complicit bystander.
He Kura Huna by a team from Bay
of Plenty region (aged 15-19)
Genre: Drama
Synopsis: A
young man’s journey to connect with his cultural
identity.
May Be Wrong by
Isaac Martin (18) from Gisborne
Genre: Video
Essay
Synopsis: Our consumer culture manipulates us to be
mindless, but we can use our purchasing power for good.
Koro Puppeteer by a team from
Otaki (aged 9-12)
Genre: Documentary
Synopsis: A story
of the strings that sustain a family tradition.
Home by a team from Auckland
(aged 16-18)
Genre: Video Essay
Synopsis: A young poet
tells us a story about the challenges of life on the
Southside.
THE 20 SPECIAL AWARDS
New Zealand Film Commission
Film-making Achievement Award
For a film with
outstanding creative / technical quality
Connected Media Sustainable Future
Award
For a film which promotes dialogue on
sustainability through a new perspective and/or critical
thinking
Department of Conservation Big
Picture Award
For a film that relates to the Big
Picture focus of DOC’s National Education Strategy
Ministry of Youth Development Community
Participation Award
For a film focusing on
active citizenship
Te Māngai Pāho
Whakatipuranga Award
For a film with a Māori
indigenous perspective on sustainability
Coconut Wireless Pasifika Award
For
a film by a Pasifika film-maker or team and/or featuring
Pasifika language and culture
New Zealand
Film Commission Young Women Film-makers
Award
For a film made by a young woman
film-maker or team
Like Minds, Like Mine
Award
For a film that focuses on social
inclusion and wellbeing as a sustainability issue for young
people
All Good People and Planet
Award
For a film which addresses social justice
as a sustainability issue
Auckland Council
Film-maker Award
For a film by a film-maker or
team from the Auckland region
The Wireless
Storytelling Award
For a film with powerful
storytelling
Web Show Central Cinematography
Award
For a film with outstanding
cinematography
Yours Digital Media
Award
For a film with outstanding editing or
animation
Accelerating Aotearoa Young Voices
For Change Award
For a film motivating young
people and/or decision-makers to be change-makers
Rockstock Media Empowerment
Award
For a film which empowers its viewers
and/or its makers
Green Ideas Sustainable
Lifestyle Award
For a film focusing on lifestyle
change for sustainability
The 4.30 Show
Secondary School Film-makers Award
For a film
made by young people of secondary school age
What Now Primary/Intermediate School Film-makers
Award
For a film made by young people of primary
or intermediate school age
Tearaway
Secondary School Performance Award
For a film
made by young people of secondary school age with strong
on-screen performance
Upstart Magazine
Primary/Intermediate School Performance
Award
For a film made by young people of primary
or intermediate school age with strong on-screen
performance
THE OUTLOOK FOR SOMEDAY PARTNERS AND SUPPORTERS
The Outlook for Someday in 2015 is based on partnerships between Connected Media Charitable Trust and The Body Shop New Zealand, the New Zealand Film Commission, Ministry of Youth Development, Department of Conservation (through the DOC Community Fund), Health Promotion Agency and Auckland Council.
Funding Partners are Te Māngai Pāho, NZ On Air, Creative New Zealand’s Creative Communities Scheme, The Trusts Community Foundation, the Lou and Iris Fisher Charitable Trust, First Sovereign Trust, Youthtown, Infinity Foundation and Dragon Community Trust.
Regional Partners are Foundation North, Bay Trust, Trust Waikato, Eastern and Central Community Trust, Whanganui Community Foundation, Rātā Foundation, Community Trust of Mid and South Canterbury, Central Lakes Trust and Otago Community Trust.
Media Partners are Element Magazine, The Wireless, The 4.30 Show, What Now, Tearaway, Upstart Magazine, Coconut Wireless, Web Show Central, Yours.nz, and Green Ideas Magazine.
Photogear is Technology Partner and the Directors and Editors Guild of New Zealand is Industry Partner.
Paper and Print Partners are Rockstock, B&F Papers and Soar Print.
Event Partners are Auckland Live, Austin’s and All Good.
Supporting Partners are Toimata Foundation and Accelerating Aotearoa.
O’Halloran North Shore is Accountancy Partner and Stephens Lawyers is Honorary Legal Advisor.
Project Supporters are AS Colour, Auckland Actors, Defender Bags, ecostore, El Framo, Hire Plants, Kahra Scott-James, Karousel Screenprinting, Levi’s® Stores, Lothlorien Organic Fruit Juices, MediaPasifika, New Zealand Post, Orcon, Pastel City, Votre Arme and WWF New Zealand.
ENDS