The seventh edition of Cinema at Citygarden – a co-presentation of Cinema St. Louis (CSL) and Gateway Foundation – invites St. Louis-area filmmakers to let their imaginations blossom by creating short works that incorporate Nature as a key element.
This juried competition will award cash prizes – $1,500 for first place, $1,000 for second place, and $500 for third place – to the top three entries. The winning shorts will then be featured as part of a looped program that will screen on Citygarden’s video wall starting Friday, May 28, 2021. In addition to the three cash-prize winners, up to seven other works will be chosen to be part of the video-wall program that will screen through Sunday, June 27, 2021.
Deadline for entry is Friday, April 9, 2021. A three-person jury of film professionals (filmmakers, film scholars, film critics) will select the video-wall program, including both the three cash-prize winners and the additional films. Jury members will be announced on CSL’s Web site.
Cinema St. Louis will also screen the video-wall program – as well as additional Cinema at Citygarden competition entries chosen by CSL – as part of the St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase, held in July 2021. Those films will then be eligible for consideration by the St. Louis International Film Festival, held Nov. 4-14, 2021.
Citygarden Info
Among the most beloved public spaces in St. Louis, Citygarden is a two-block oasis of plants and trees, water and internationally renowned sculpture in the heart of downtown’s Gateway Mall. Opened in 2009, the garden is free and open to the public 365 days a year. It’s been a hit since the day it opened, and the garden continues to attract visitors from all over the St. Louis area, the nation, and the world with its blend of beauty and serenity and fun. In 2011, it received one of the nation’s most prestigious honors in urban planning, the Urban Land Institute’s Amanda Burden Urban Open Space Award.
The garden represents a partnership between the City of St. Louis, which owns the land, and the Gateway Foundation, which spearheaded and paid for the attraction’s development — an estimated $25 million. Each of the 25 sculptures, which are owned by the Gateway Foundation, were selected and purchased separately. The design is by Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects of Charlottesville, Va.
The video wall, on which the competition works will play, is set within a limestone wall that arcs across two blocks.
For more information about Citygarden, visit www.citygardenstl.org.
1st place - $1,500
2nd place - $1,000
3rd place - $500
The winning shorts will then be featured as part of a looped program that will screen on Citygarden’s video wall starting Friday, May 28, 2021. In addition to the three cash-prize winners, up to seven other works will be chosen to be part of the video-wall program that will screen through Sunday, June 27, 2021.