Deadline: December 12, 2024
Applications are open for the Sustainability Prize 2025. The Sustainability Prize, launched by Creo and Sony, invites filmmakers passionate about communicating key themes linked to the Sustainable Development Goals, including environment, accessibility, diversity, equity and inclusion.
Set up to amplify the smaller stories exploring these social and environmental issues, the initiative spotlights one short film from the Sony Future Filmmaker Awards and one series from the Sony World Photography Awards Professional competition.
The Sustainability Prize is part of Creators for the Planet, a global year-round engagement program set up by Sony Pictures and the United Nations Foundation, developed in collaboration with Creo. Creators for the Planet aims to mobilise and inspire people to act now through photography and film.
Prizes
- Each winner will receive $5,000, Sony digital imaging equipment and promotion across the Sony Future Filmmaker Awards and the World Photography Organisation channels and websites.
- The work of the winners will also get the chance to be honored at a showcase hosted by the United Nations Foundation and Sony Pictures.
Eligibility
- Open to all members of the public except:
- employees of Promoter or its holding or subsidiary companies; or
- employees of agents or suppliers of Promoter or its holding or subsidiary companies, who are professionally connected with the competition or its administration.
- The Student category is only open to Students attending an institution that has a formalised film course/credit/module which is taught at higher education level (diploma/degree). Student filmmakers must still be registered as a student at the time they enter the competition to be considered.
- Entry must be produced from January 1, 2023 to December 12, 2024.
Application
Any entry must be submitted by 07:00 AM (CT) December 12, 2024.
For more information, visit Sustainability Prize.
