The Sustainability Living-Learning Community (LLC) is a residential community within University Housing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Our community takes a holistic approach to educating the future leaders of the green movement by incorporating academic and experiential elements to provide students with avenues to explore their interests. The Sustainability LLC hosts a wide variety of events each semester to encourage students to see sustainability in new ways through a host of different lenses, offering unique experiences to learn and grow.
With this, our 4th Annual Sustainability Shorts Film Festival, we hope to educate, enlighten, and entertain our campus and community through the medium of film. We are seeking short films in a variety of different categories to highlight at this event, which will be produced at a central campus location at the University of Illinois and open to the public.
The films chosen for the festival should be directly relevant to the broad topic of environmental sustainability. Suggested topics include:
-Sustainable food sources/food justice
-Urban Gardening
-Sustainable Agriculture
-Water Conservation
-Waste/Recycling/Creative Reuse
-Renewable energy sources
-The intersections between sustainability and social justice (land rights, etc.)
-Environmental Conservation
-Sustainable transportation
-The sustainable home/business
This is just a start! We are open to consider other topics that directly relate to our theme.
Due to time constraints, highest consideration will be given to films that are under 10 minutes in length. We may, at our discretion, consider longer titles (under 20 minutes) if they are of exceptional quality and high interest to our student selection committee. No film over 20 minutes in length will be evaluated.
No monetary awards will be given.
Honors will be granted to select films via Judges' Choice and Audience Choice (categories TBA, depending on submissions received). Pdf laurels will be given via email and promoted on Sustainability LLC social media to films that receive awards.