Childnet International Film Competition 2024: Empowering Young Voices for a Safer Internet

By: ChildnetLast update: 9/29/2024

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Deadline 2024-10-30

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Applicant criteria

NationalityNo specific nationality required

Age

No specific age required

Gender

Both

Opportunity criteria

Opportunity FieldComputer and Information Sciences

Job locationUnited Kingdom

Opportunity description

Calling all teachers and educators working with young people outside the UK! Do you know any young people aged 7-18 who are passionate about film? Can they tell a good story, create animation or inspire positive change? Then they’d love to invite you to support the young people you work with to make a short film about online safety! for the 2024 Childnet international Film Competition.

2024 theme: How would you make the internet a better place?

They’re looking for films made by young people that inspire their friends and others to create positive changes in online spaces! If they’ve got something original to say about creating a better and safer internet, then they’d love to know about it! Remember films should be both entertaining and educational.

Since 2010, thousands of young people aged 7-18 and hundreds of schools and youth organisations across the UK have entered the Childnet Film Competition, creating films to help other young people stay safe online. The competition provides a platform forkoung people to tell their stories and be heard in spaces they can’t usually access. Over the years, schools and youth groups have won DSLR cameras. tripods and filmmaking equipment..in short everything young people need to keep making great films!

Categorize of 2024 Childnet International Film

primary (7-11 year old)
Secondary( 11-18 year old)

Application for 2024 Childnet International Film

There are 3 parts of the entry form to complete:

Contact information for the supervising adult.
A short evaluation.
Submitting the film(s). You can enter up to 10.

Benefits

A prize of £1,000 for each winner of the two categories: columns and reviews.
In addition, each winner will receive an NUJ membership.
The runner-up in each category will receive a prize of £500.
Winners and runners-up will also receive a three-year free membership of The Orwell Society.

Eligibility criteria

a student journalist (i.e. a university undergraduate, post-graduate or a vocational trainee) or
currently employed or self-employed as a journalist
and in both cases, your date of birth falls in or after 1994 and you are a full-time resident in the UK.