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Calling all young filmmakers!
20 April 2008 WaterAid is seeking young filmmakers to highlight the world's water and sanitation crisis. WaterAid has just launched the H2O Reporter competition, which challenges 12 to 16 year olds to produce a video on the importance of water or toilets that's five minutes or less, and post it on YouTube. Judges will pick the top two films, and the winners will get to spend a week visiting WaterAid's project work in Tanzania, where they will direct a professional crew to make a film of their experience. The competition is funded by the Dutch Postcode Lottery and will see the two lucky winners from the UK joined by two Dutch young people, and accompanying parents. H2O Reporter is being organised at WaterAid by Paul Hetherington, who stressed that the competition will be as inclusive as possible: "We are not looking just for technical brilliance; the competition is more about the idea behind the film, which could even be shot on a mobile phone. We will also take into account the number of viewings a film gets when short listing for the judges. The idea is to get young people thinking about why water and toilets are so important." The visit to Tanzania will take place in the second week of August, with the competition closing for entries on 7 June. Visit the H2O Reporter page on our site to learn more about the competition and how to enter.
Notes to editors: For more information please contact Paul Hetherington 0207 793 2245, 07732 158128 or paulhetherington@wateraid.org
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