Focus Forward for Filmmakers
By Amelia Riley Swan
Short filmmakers, pay attention! This past week at Sundance, video publishers Cinelan announced the Focus Forward Filmmaker Challenge. The Grand Prize winner of the challenge will receive $100,000, with an additional $100,000 in cash prizes up for grabs for other winners.
Co-creators Morgan Spurlock and Karol Martesko-Fenster invite filmmakers to create three-minute documentary films with the theme of “the power of ideas and invention.” Documentaries should focus on people or organizations who are involved in: medicine, computer science, robotics, engineering, green energy, or other technical fields that impact humanity.
Project Producer Jack Myers said, in a press release, “The concept is to build a traveling nonfiction film series; we will be inviting filmmakers from every corner of the earth to join us in creating short films about game-changing innovation.”
Submissions will open in April, and the winner will be announced at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.
