Update: we've decided to extend the submissions deadline a couple of days to Friday, September 3rd at 12:00pm PT. We hope this gives you time to put those last finishing touches on your masterpieces! Just click the "Submit a Film" link on the left of this page to enter.
We want powerful five-minute films that tell stories of progress in developing countries. What are people doing to help end poverty, disease, hunger, conflict, inequality, and illiteracy? Show us the progress being made towards achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Your film can win the $20,000 Grand Prize, be shown on Link TV and other TV channels worldwide, and can inspire action and change!
You may enter in six categories:
We invite our entire online community to get involved by viewing all the entries, voting for your favorites in each category, and leaving comments.
This is your opportunity to get your work seen by our judging panel of influential artists and individuals. Judges include Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of prizewinning novels including Purple Hibiscus, award-winning filmmaker Wim Wenders, actor-directors Gael García Bernal and Danny Glover, Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee Senator Daniel K. Inouye, and Grammy award-winner Angélique Kidjo. Read more on the Judges page.
Need some inspiration before creating your own ViewChange film? Although not entries in the contest, take a look at these stories of progress in meeting the Millennium Development Goals. They’ll be sure to spur your creative juices. Click to watch all.
| 8: Person to Person | |||
 | With participation from Muhammad Yunus and Bono, this film shows how a concept like micro-financing is really very personal. Directed by Wim Wenders. | ||
 | Follow the story of Isahn Khan, who won $54 million in an American lottery, then went back to his native Pakistan to become mayor of his hometown. | ||
 | Nolusindiso "Titie" Plaatjie talks about the role of soccer in her life and how she uses the game to educate South African youth about HIV/AIDS prevention. | ||
