Buy My Duck!
CONSUMER PROTECTION SHORT FILM BRIEF
Competition Structure and Prizes
Buy My Duck! is divided into 2 competitive elements:
- An Open category within which any filmmaker of
any age may enter for the major cash prize.
Open Prize: $10,000 cash - Entries from filmmakers 17 years old and younger.
This may constitute school groups or individuals.
Prize: Macintosh G5 and Final Cut Pro editing software
The Big Five Consumer Protection Issues Affecting Young People:
- Tenancy
- Credit card debt
- Scams
- Buying cars
- Shopping rights
Films do not need to relate specifically to these issues but please contact Revelation organizers for further information on possible issues and topics or investigate the Dept of Consumer and EmploymentProtection website.
We encourage a creative exploration of both the issues and the film form itself – we want to hear your voice so make it strong.
The Concept:
Young consumers are vulnerable in ways that are particular to their circumstances. They experience difficulties in areas as diverse as tenancy, credit card debt, scams, buying cars and shopping rights. Much of the time, written information has little effect on making them aware that they have consumer rights and responsibilities.
At the same time, so much of today’s essential services have been privatised to the extent that the lines between consumer rights and human rights are becoming blurred. The Revelation Perth International Film Festival are working with the Department of Consumer and Employment Protection (DOCEP) to explore the narrative possibilities that make young consumers vulnerable in the 21st century.
The Buy My Duck! Short Film Competition is more than community education; it is a creative partnership between Western Australian filmmakers and screen artists and the world around them. It is an opportunity to empower the young and wider community, make them think, push the boundaries of the creative process that is short film, and to support the local film industry.
Buy My Duck! encourages the submission of works in all genres from short documentary, drama, documentary, animation, experimental and weird hybrids. Judges are not necessarily interested in production values but ideas. The project is seeking serious engagement on the issues and form and encourages a much more direct and interactive approach to speaking to and with Government and so encourages works that may go beyond punchline styles – but will of course consider all works on merit.
Competition Guidelines:
- Entry to the competition is only open to Western Australian filmmakers.
- A Western Australian filmmaker is deemed to be one resident in WA for a continuous period no less than 6 months prior to date of submission.
- Short film entries must be:
- No longer than 10 minutes in duration;
- About consumer protection issues that affect young people (a general list is provided below however submissions need not be limited to these);
- Idea–driven–and embracing an imaginative interpretation of young consumer issues.
- Entrants will receive information from Revelation film festival and Consumer Protection about the issues that affect young consumers. It is recommended that entrants attend the briefing workshops to be held in Perth at a date to be advertised on the Revelation website.
- Open category entrants are eligible to win a cash prize of $10,000
- Under 17 year old category entrants are eligible to win a combination of hardware and software constituting a Macintosh G5 and Final Cut Pro software.
- All filmmakers including those under 17 are eligible to enter the Open category to be in the running for the cash prize, however filmmaker may only submit the same film to one category.
- Should the winning entrant in the under 17 category be a school group or entered on behalf of a school, the prize will go to the school. For individual entrants, the prize will go to the individual.
- Judges are WA and international filmmakers and a representative of DOCEP.
- Judges decision will be final and no correspondence will be entered into.
- DOCEP reserves non–exclusive rights to all entries in whole or part for use in non–profit consumer protection community education initiatives; and in the promotion of consumer protection issues in the community. Media use may include website, community displays and relevant conferences. Television will be negotiated separately should they arise.
- Selected entries may receive public screening during the 2006 Revelation Perth International Film Festival
- All entries are required to be submitted on DVD or VHS for judging. Final screening formats if selected will be Mini DV, DVD, SP Betacam or Digital Betacam.
- Entry deadline is Monday April 17, 2006. No late entries accepted.
- All entrants will be notified as to nominee shortlist on April 28th, 2006
Film Briefing Session Dates
- Buy My Duck! Briefing Session, Under 17 Category: 10 June 9–10:30am Luna Cinemas
- Launch: 7 July 2005 Screen West’s, Get Your Shorts On showcase as part of Revelation
- Buy My Duck! Briefing Session, Open Category: 16 july 12–2pm Luna Cinemas (details to follow)
- Deadline for Entries: 17 April 2006
Contact Information
For more information contact: Rebecca Cockram, Coordinator 041 996 7807 (Wed–Fri). rcockram@optusnet.com.au also www.revelationfilmfest.org
Or email Consumer Protection’s Community Education Unit: Carl Gopalkrishnan: cgopalkrishnan@docep.wa.gov.au or visit www.docep.wa.gov.au/youthbrief
