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<p>The <a href="/Film4Climate-Competition" target="_blank">Film4Climate Global Video Competition</a> invites filmmakers from around the world to express their vision for a sustainable future by creating a short film or video about climate action.</p>

<p>The competition calls on filmmakers to <strong>explore Climate Action</strong>, the 13th goal under the UN Sustainable Development Goals, emphasizing what individuals and communities around the world are doing to promote action, offer solutions and inspire positive change to combat climate change and its impacts. Filmmakers are encouraged to deploy personal narratives that explore fundamental questions such as: What does climate change mean to me? What actions am I taking to mitigate the advance of global warming? What is my Climate Action message to the world?</p>

<p><strong>Videos must be <a href="/Film4Climate-Competition" target="_blank">submitted</a> as Public Service Announcements that are less than one minute, or as a Short Film, between one and five minutes.</strong></p>

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<p><strong>Bernardo Bertolucci </strong>(The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris) will serve as the jury president of the competition. Bertolucci is joined on the jury by Oscar-winning Directors and Producers as well as luminaries of cinema, communications and the environment, including <strong>Mohamed Nasheed</strong>, climate champion and former president of the Maldives, producer <strong>Lawrence Bender</strong> (An Inconvenient Truth, Pulp Fiction), director <strong>Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy</strong> (Saving Face, A Girl in the River), director <strong>Louie Psihoyos</strong> (The Cove, Racing Extinction), director <strong>Fernando Meirelles</strong> (City of God, The Constant Gardener), director <strong>Robert Stone</strong> (Radio Bikini, Pandora&rsquo;s Promise), director <strong>Mika Kaurismaki</strong> (Zombie and the Ghost Train), director <strong>Pablo Trapero</strong> (Carancho, El Clan), producer <strong>Martin Katz</strong> (Hotel Rwanda), <strong>Ann Hornaday</strong>, Chief Film Critic of The Washington Post, <strong>Sheila Redzepi</strong>, Vice President for External and Corporate Relations, World Bank Group, Moroccan director <strong>Farida Benlyazid</strong> (Frontieras, Keïd Ensa),&nbsp; <strong>Carole Tomko</strong>, General Manager and Creative Director of Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen&rsquo;s Vulcan Productions,<strong> Maria Wilhelm</strong>, Executive Director of the Avatar Alliance Foundation, <strong>Pat Mitchell</strong>, President and CEO of the Paley Center for Media, <strong>Rose Kuo</strong>, CEO and Artistic Director of the Qingdao International Film Festival, and <strong>Mark Lynas</strong>, author and environmentalist (The God Species, Six Degrees).</p>

<p>The competition is open to filmmakers between 14 and 35 years old. Submissions will be open through September 15, 2016. For full competition rules and eligibility requirements, please visit: <a href="http://www.film4climate.net/&quot; target="_blank">film4climate.net</a> or <a href="/Film4Climate-Competition" target="_blank">on our website here</a>.</p>

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