d2e down2:earth

D2E invites students, artists, activists, and everyone in between to submit original three-minute digital videos focused on themes of sustainable living and natural landscapes in New England. Your videos should be visually compelling and can explore any related theme, in any style: narrative, montage, animated, documentary or experimental.

Your everyday life is full of visual material and experiences that can be documented to make a statement, to explore your ideas, or merely to provoke thought about the world and how we live in it. Carry a camera and capture these as they happen or record them in a notebook and restage them later. You needn't travel far to see examples of how global systems affect us: the atmosphere, the weather, the land and the shoreline, the pockets of nature in the city, consumer culture and our daily needs at home. Or use your knowledge and imagination to create with words, photos and drawings, images and sounds.

Video topics could include: 
Environmental consciousness in everyday life, volunteerism, nature walks, poetry as a subject, outdoor activities with a message, profiles of people living sustainably, Artists impressions, consumerism, etc. It's up to you!

Video entries must follow the simple rules listed below and must be received by Friday, March 26, 2010. Selected entries will be presented in the Video Project Theater at D2E.

Rules and guidelines:
– Videos must be three to five minutes in length or less.
– Submit your video on a CD or DVD in one of the common digital video file formats:
.AVI (preferred for best quality), .MOV, .MPG, MPEG4 and .WMV. Remember to send us the files
rather than an encoded DVD format so we can copy them for projection.
– Use resolution settings appropriate for projecting videos rather than for playback on a mobile device.
– Videos must be received by Friday March 26, 2010 at this address:
Good For All, LLC - 715 Boylston Street - Boston MA - 02116
– Videos must not use copyrighted material without permission.
– Submitters must possess signed release forms for all persons appearing in their videos.
– D2E and its artistic advisors reserve the right to choose which videos will be presented and may
reject entries for any reason, including relevance to sustainability themes, appropriateness to D2E, and effectiveness of the message.

Videos must be received by Friday March 26, 2010:
Good For All, LLC
715 Boylston Street - Boston MA - 02116

Videos must not use copyrighted material without permission. Submitters must possess signed release forms for all persons appearing in their videos. D2E and its artistic advisors reserve the right to choose which videos will be presented and may reject entries for any reason, including relevance to sustainability themes, appropriateness to D2E, and effectiveness of the message.

Click to download 2010 video project information.