2nd Annual Puyallup River Film Festival: a Competition to Save Our Watershed December 9, 2014, 6:00-9:00 pm The Grand Cinema, Tacoma, WA Amateur film-makers and watershed advocates, we want to see what you got!!! With a generous grant from The Russell Family Foundation, the University of Washington Tacoma will host the second annual film festival focused on our own Puyallup River Watershed. We invite all community members, students and non-profit organizations located in or working in the watershed to submit 2- to 3-minute videos related to issues affecting the Puyallup River and its tributaries. The more inventive and original the better!!! We will screen all entries in an evening film festival December 9th, 2014, open to the public. Winners in each category (open, middle school, high school, college/university, non-profit, and government) will be selected by the audience and prizes will be awarded (so bring your friends and family!). All entries will be made available to the public to view on the new Puyallup River Outreach Project website [http://puyallupriver.org/], a project to showcase educational materials and outreach efforts in the Puyallup River Watershed. You’ll be famous!!! To see last year’s winners and other examples, go to the Festival page: http://puyallupriver.org/be-a-proper/film-festival/ If you are interested, but do not have access to a video camera, don’t despair! Thanks to our sponsors, we have easy-to-use video cameras you can borrow for filming, and project staff will be happy to work with you on getting started; we will even visit your school to meet with your team! For assistance please email Jim Gawel (jimgawel@uw.edu). To enter your team in the film festival competition, please register here before November 15, 2014. Submit video files [.mov or .mpeg4; 1280 X 720 (720p); 30 frames per second (fps)] on thumb drive or data DVD by December 1, 2014, to: Jim Gawel University of Washington Tacoma 1900 Commerce St. Campus Box 358436 Tacoma, WA 98402 Please include with your submission a title for your film, the film-makers names, and any affiliations you want in the program. We can’t wait to see your work and share it with everyone!!! Jim Gawel Environmental Science and Studies Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program University of Washington Tacoma 1900 Commerce St Campus Box 358436 Tacoma, WA 98402 Phone: 253-692-5815 E-mail: jimgawel@uw.edu