Save Our Seas: Seas the Day Short Film Competition
Three finalists will be announced by the 4th September
2009. Finalists will
receive one complimentary pass each to attend the Jackson
Hole Film Festival
(28 September - 2 October 2009). A panel session will be
held at the
festival during which the overall winner for the competition
will be
announced. The winning entry will receive $2,500, be distributed
through
SOSF's network of aquariums and zoos, be featured on our
website and be
shown in October 2009 at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film
Festival.
In September, 2008, the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival and the Denver Museum of Nature & Science teamed up to create the first-ever conference uniting content creators, web designers and tech support industries with media professionals from NGO's museums, zoos, aquariums, parks and other public institutions.
The debut conference was by all accounts, a success. There is a strong desire on the part of the museum and institutional partners to continue to create opportunities for collaboration and exchange, and we will be certain to incorporate an Institutional and Public Media strand in the 2009 Film Festival.
Special thanks to the generous sponsors who stepped up to underwrite the inaugural event. NASA's portable GeoDome provided Full Dome Planetarium programming for three days giving the local community an extraordinary hands-on learning opportunity. Premiere screening events with National Geographic (Monster Black Holes) and WNET/Nature (White Falcon, White Wolf) were programming highlights, as was the closing night celebration featuring an episode of Discovery's When We Left Earth in honor of NASA's 50th anniversary. A full slate of networking events was underwritten by Sony, Panasonic, Discovery, Fujinon and nWAVE. Many thanks to the local sponsors including Snake River Roasting, Bistro Catering, Spring Creek Resort.
