National Neighborhood Day Short Film Contest: Call for Entries!

The mission of National Neighborhood Day is to inspire, build, and sustain the neighborhood relationships that provide the foundation for civic action and the building of stronger, more caring and effective communities. The vision establishes National Neighborhood Day as an annual day to recognize and reinforce the relationships that are the fabric of our communities.

To promote National Neighborhood Day’s mission and vision, we are hosting our second annual National Neighborhood Day Short Film Contest. This is an awesome opportunity for filmmakers to use technology and creativity to tell the nation “What Neighborhood Means to Me”. The deadline for entries is June 15, 2006.

Our Short Film Contest is for both professional and amateur filmmakers to illustrate, through a film in 5-minutes or less, what a neighborhood that inspires them means to them. Students in grades K-12 are especially invited to participate as individuals or as a group or classroom project. There is no entry fee for the youth category.

The contest has three prize categories: Adult, Youth (under age 18 or enrolled in grades K-12), and a Special Jury Award. Prizes of $2,000 will be awarded in each of the three categories. We have a superstar panel of judges including two-time academy award winner Terry Sanders and Gregg Hale the filmmaker and producer of the Blair Witch Project.