SUBMIT YOUR FILM
TO THE ECONOMIST FILM PROJECT
The 2011 Cannes Film Festival has come to a close, and we hope you all enjoyed following it as much as we did here at The Economist magazine. For those students and professors who were lucky enough to be there in person this year, you likely saw The Economist’s presence in The American Pavilion’s wireless café.
The Economist’s support of The American Pavilion is linked to a new initiative that we have developed in partnership with the highly respected U.S. television news program PBS NewsHour. This initiative, The Economist Film Project, is designed to showcase independent documentary films from around the world. We invite the documentary filmmakers among youto submit your films to the project.
From Abu Dhabi to Albuquerque, from astronomy to agriculture, we are working with documentary filmmakers to generate exposure for films that, like The Economist magazine itself, offer new ideas, perspectives, and insights that not only help make sense of the world, but also take a stand and provoke debate.
Topics and themes to be considered can include (but are not limited to) economics, the environment, society, health care, human rights, immigration, the arts, science & technology, war, religion, politics, government, media, justice, cultural shifts, etc.
Selected films and the topics they explore will serve as the subject of news segments airing regularly on PBS NewsHour. The first segment aired on April 28, 2011, and airings will continue through 2011 and into 2012. Six to eight minutes of footage from selected films will be included in these news segments. The Economist will provide a grant of $4,000 to each selected filmmaker to support the editing process needed to create the footage and the segment. Filmmakers will retain all rights to their film and the excerpted footage.
VISIT FILM.ECONOMIST.COM TO LEARN HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR FILM.
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