GREENLIGHT FILM FESTIVAL WINNERS ANNOUNCED

The Rossman Siblings - Community Energy Champions

Host Louise Pencavel with Brittney Badduke

Middle School Awardees with Louise Pencavel

Open Category Awardees with Host Louise Pencavel

Last night, the 7th annual Greenlight Film Festival Screening and Awards Ceremony took place at the Cubberley Theater in Palo Alto.  The 15 finalists across three categories were screened, the filmmakers were interviewed and the grand prize winners were announced and celebrated.

And the winners...

Open Category
Karen Ramos-Martin, Clara Fugmann, Emetis Assar and Serenz Fux for GREENLIGHT POWER

Middle School Category
Johannes Neubrand, Jannik Moeller and Pave Trirchkova for HOW TO BE GREEN

High School Category
Brittney Badduke for The Carpool

And the inaugural Community Energy Champion Award: Emilia Rossman and Maximilian Rossman for How to Live Green

To see the awards ceremony and all the Greenlight submissions for 2012, check out the Media Center's TV schedule and don't forget, anytime a program plays on our channels, it is also streaming from our website at midpenmedia.org/stream.

The Greenlight Film Festival is sponsored by the Media Center, the Palo Alto Weekly and Palo Alto Online plus the cities of Palo Alto, Mountain View, Sunnyvale and the City of San Jose Silicon Valley Energy Watch.

GREENLIGHT FINALISTS ANNOUNCED - FESTIVAL THURSDAY NIGHT!

The Media Center announces the finalists in the 7th annual Greenlight Film Festival contest.   The winners will be announced and honored Thursday, April 19, 7 pm at a Screening and Awards ceremony at Cubberley Theater in Palo Alto.  The event is free and open to the public.

The festival is open to all ages but has categories targeted specifically to middle schoolers and high schoolers.   The festival was conceived by the late Jim Burch, a beloved former Palo Alto mayor, activist and Media Center advisor. The purpose of the festival is to raise awareness of the environment and to transform the way individuals and the community think about and impact the environment.

"Creating a short video is not only something the kids like to do, but it gives students an opportunity to learn while producing a work of art," says Brad Sanzebacher, the Youth Services Coordinator for the Media Center, who is one of the chief organizers of this year's festival for the Media Center.

This festival is sponsored by the Media Center, the Palo Alto Weekly and Palo Alto Online plus the cities of Palo Alto, Mountain View, Sunnyvale and the City of San Jose Silicon Valley Energy Watch.  A special grant from Silicon Valley Energy Watch made possible the Media Center's extended outreach into all of Santa Clara County's schools.  In addition to the honorees in each category a special prize will be awarded for the first time this year.   The Community Energy Champion Award  will be awarded to the film that best and most creatively inspires the community to seek ways to save energy.

A panel comprised of environmental and film and video industry professionals as well as local students judged this year's entries.  The finalists will be screened and prizes awarded at the Cubberley Theater, 4400 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto at 7 pm on Thursday, April 19, 2012.  The event will be hosted by the Media Center's Louise Pencavel and former Palo Alto Mayor and environmental activist Peter Drekmeier. The event will also be broadcast live on Comcast Channel 28 in the greater Palo Alto area, and can be watched streaming at midpenmedia.org/stream.

The producers and finalists in each category are:

Middle School
Erin Mittman for Puppy Tells How to Save the Planet
Johannes Neubrand, Jannik Moeller and Pave Trirchkov for How To Be Green
Emily Zhang and Maggie Rosenthal for Transportation
Girl Scout Troop 60123 for Save the Creeks!
Colin L, Sherris Washington for Saving Energy

High School
Megan Feroglia, Janna Wang for Redefining Wires
Jason Li for I Have a Dream
Emily & Olivia Porat for This Afternoon
Brittney Badduke for The Carpool
Rachel Bilchak, Stella Bates, Jacob Morison, Daniel Resz for Down the Storm Drain

Open Category (any age)
Hanna Weppner, Manuel Paulus, Sofia Herrler for Protect the Earth
Hiromi Kuehberger, Kai Kuehberger, Moritz Bergmann, Keno Van Der Horst for Save the World
Max Lucas, Joe Paavola for What Would Earth Be Like Without Life?
Karen Ramos-Martin, Clara Fugmann, Emetis Assar, Serena Fux for Greenlight Power
Sophia Jacquemin, Theresa Kuschnereit for How to Save Our Planet

Channel 28 - 7 pm - LIVE TONIGHT! The Path to Purpose - Helping Children Find Their Calling

In another in the series of partnerships between the Media Center and the Palo Alto PTA Council, we are proud to bring to you another Parent Ed program LIVE from the PAUSD  chambers at 25 Churchill.  If you can't be there in person, you can watch this important programming on Channel 28 tonight live at 7 pm.  And the Media Center will record and make it available for replay!

To see the complete program series archived, visit the PAPTA Blip Channel.

Learning to help ourselves and our children find true value and meaning in life really SHOULD be the primary purpose of the partnership between families and schools.  These wonderful programs provide tools to parents, families and the community to help our children thrive.

And we're pleased that we make them available to our community beyond tonight's one time programmed event.

To find out when this program will replay, contact becky@midpenmedia.org.

HOMETOWN DEADLINE ON FRIDAY APRIL 6!

The Hometown Video Awards are the highest honor our umbrella organization, the Alliance for Community Media can bestow.  They are annual national awards.  Anyway, this year the application process just got a little more complicated.  And to be honest, we just figured it out ourselves, so please bear with.  In case you might have a hankering to enter a video read on.  The catch is that your video had to have aired on our channels anytime in 2011!

A big thank you to Nancy Brown for taking the time to walk through the process and create this summary for us.

This year, Alliance for Community Media changed the Hometown Media
Awards process. Online entries are preferred. The deadline is April 6.
Not much time left!!

The Media Center has compiled most of the ACM's help documents here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b8SYknACH8DN_0UyVG06k1RDi_B5E2l_i-Zmh1KaRKQ/edit

Our comments are in red text.

You must register on the ACM website
in order to submit
your entry. There is no fee to register on the site, but there is a
fee to submit videos.

We believe you can list the Media Center as your organization
and receive our member discount. The fee for each entry is $50 for
members and $75 for non members.

Fill out your entry form like this:
Your name and your email address, the same one you used to register and log in.
Organization: Midpeninsula Community Media Center
Address: 900 San Antonio Road
City: Palo Alto
State: CA
Zip: 94303
Work phone: 650-494-8686 (possibly you can change the phone numbers)
Fax: 650-494-8386


For producers with editing chops, or for those who know an editor, you
will want to submit an 8-minute clip for each half-hour program, or a
20-minute clip for each hour program. If you submit your complete
program, the judges will simply choose any 8 minutes (most likely the
first 8), so it pays to give them the best segment for your online
entry.

Uploading an actual clip (like a Quicktime or MPEG file) means it must
be compressed first, no larger than 300MB. You can upload the clip, or
you can put your 8 minutes on a video site like YouTube or Blip. Then
you may list the link on the entry form, instead of uploading the
file. Putting videos online requires a little editing know-how, so get
some help if you can't do it yourself!

You can submit DVDs, but it costs more.

You can pay by check, but it costs more. They prefer a credit card
with your online form.

We hope this helps!

The Media Center
900 San Antonio Rd.
Palo Alto, CA 94303
650-494-8686 x12
www.midpenmedia.org