Film Contest

Different forms of communication convey different contents; they abbreviate and create the world in different ways, and they may thus impact and shape our orientations differently.

UPDATE (October 2024): We have selected the winnings films for our inaugural film competition! Please scroll down to find the three winners. Congratulations! 

Through our short film contest, we seek to promote and support the creation of philosophical short films that address, represent, or express orientation-philosophical concepts. To kick off our contest, we have created 2 philosophical short films ourselves:

“All things come into being and pass away through strife.” – Heraclitus

Footholds

Purpose

For our first video contest, the theme is: “orientation and disorientation.” You can find an initial definition of “orientation” in our FPO glossary.

Eligibility

Everyone, no matter what background, may participate in our video contest. Videos can take any aesthetic, narrative, and artistic style (with or without dialogues) and may include computer animated imagery and use post-production software.

Maximum length of the videos: 20 min

Deadline to submit your videos: October 15, 2022 (midnight, US Central Time)

HFPO provides the following prize awards:

1st prize award: $3,000

2nd prize award: $2,000

3rd prize award: $1,000

We are accepting submissions for our Film Competition through the website FilmFreeway: https://filmfreeway.com/HFPOPhilosophicalShortFilmContest

THE RESULTS

After we received 1,973 submission to our competition, our jury enganged in a careful selection process. Eventually we invited the three winning films to our five year anniversary in Nashville, where we decided on the ranking of these three films.

We decided split the first and second prize award among Alessandro Amico (Italy) and Alexandre Silveira (Brazil); the third prize award went to Pauline Bricout (France). Congratulations to ou three winners!! You can watch the three winning films below:

Alessandro Amico: “A Portrait of the Artists as an Old Woman”

Alexandre Silveira: “From the Weight of the Earth to the Lightness of the Body”

Pauline Bricout: “Roots”