Movie makers can win some money
FutureFlick contest offers $5,000 award
A contest being run by the Ontario Research and Innovation Optical network (ORION) could win students up to $2,500.
FutureFlick is a digital video contest that asks students to create a digital short that depicts student life in 2020. Winners will have their short broadcast globally on the Open Student Television Network (OSTN).
“We're looking for some fresh ideas from Ontario students demonstrating what student life will be like in 2020,” said Tamara Stoll, the communications officer for ORION. “It's not too far down the road, but because of the way technology is moving ahead at such a fast pace.”
ORION, a not for profit organization that owns and operates an ultra high-speed fiber-optics network available only for use by universities, college's and teaching hospitals in Ontario, is not only supplying the prize money but along with OSTN will be judging the contest.
“We're looking at ideas of how technology will change student lives,” Stoll continued. “How students learn in the classrooms, or maybe their extracurricular lives. Pretty much anything goes.”
The contest ends January 31, 2008. Winners will be announced a few months after the deadline with top prize being a cash prize of $2,500 as well as the broadcast of the digital short, second and third prize will win $1,500 and $1,000 respectively.
For more information visit www.orion.on.ca/futureflick.
A contest being run by the Ontario Research and Innovation Optical network (ORION) could win students up to $2,500.
FutureFlick is a digital video contest that asks students to create a digital short that depicts student life in 2020. Winners will have their short broadcast globally on the Open Student Television Network (OSTN).
“We're looking for some fresh ideas from Ontario students demonstrating what student life will be like in 2020,” said Tamara Stoll, the communications officer for ORION. “It's not too far down the road, but because of the way technology is moving ahead at such a fast pace.”
ORION, a not for profit organization that owns and operates an ultra high-speed fiber-optics network available only for use by universities, college's and teaching hospitals in Ontario, is not only supplying the prize money but along with OSTN will be judging the contest.
“We're looking at ideas of how technology will change student lives,” Stoll continued. “How students learn in the classrooms, or maybe their extracurricular lives. Pretty much anything goes.”
The contest ends January 31, 2008. Winners will be announced a few months after the deadline with top prize being a cash prize of $2,500 as well as the broadcast of the digital short, second and third prize will win $1,500 and $1,000 respectively.
For more information visit www.orion.on.ca/futureflick.
