UNICEF is calling for submissions to its Media Magic Make a Difference! one-minute video contest

People under age 25 are invited to submit a one-minute video on the contest’s theme, telling the world what young people think about the world they live in and how they’re making a difference. The contest’s theme, “A World Fit for Children,” was chosen in honour of the 5th anniversary of the Special Session for Children and its adopted agenda “Building a World Fit for Children.”

UNICEF is asking young video makers to look at the four priorities of the agenda - Promoting healthy lives; Providing quality education; Protecting children against abuse, exploitation and violence; and Combating HIV/AIDS – and to demonstrate how one or more of the goals have affected their lives. Have these goals been achieved in your community? What problems still exist where you live? What suggestions do you have to solve them? What can be done to build a world for children?

The winning video will be featured on the UNICEF and Voices of Youth websites, vodcast by UNICEF, featured in the Media Magic Digest and be included in the ICDB 2007 materials, which are available to broadcasters around the world. The winning director will be honoured at an awards ceremony at the PROMAX/BDA conference in New York City.
Videos must be exactly one minute long. Participants must be under 25 years of age. All entries must be received by 30 March 2007. Information on acceptable formats and how to submit is available at UNICEF’s site.

All entries will be reviewed by the Media Magic team, with the video finalists displayed on the main UNICEF website. The winner will be judged by a global panel of media professionals, as well as a public on-line vote.

The first ever Insomnia Film Festival challenges students to write, shoot, and edit a short film in just one day.

On Friday, November 10 at 5 p.m. Eastern (2 p.m. Pacific), Apple will post a list of three elements that you will need to incorporate into your story. From that time, you will have 24 hours to finish and submit your completed short film.

After the entries are posted to Apple’s web gallery, they will make them available for the public to view and rate. The top 25 highest rated films through December 3 will then be judged by our panel of experts.

Winners will be designated in two categories: the audience choice and the judges’ choice. Winning team members will each receive a copy of Final Cut Studio, a copy of Shake, and an 80GB video iPod for their portable portfolio.*

MTV is looking for webcam stars to be on TRL:

Have you ever dreamt about being on TRL but can’t get to New York for the show?
Attention all TRL fans! Do you think you have what it takes to be a part of the hypest audience around? Now is your chance! TRL is looking for fun, outgoing fans to talk to some of the biggest names in music like Diddy, Nelly Furtado, The Killers, Ludacris, Jesse McCartney and many more… from the comfort of your computer. If you have a webcam, and want a chance to be a part of the TRL action email us at TRLWebcam@mtv.com, ASAP with the following info:
o Name: o Age: o Phone Number: o Attach a recent picture

Nine lucky fans will get a chance to be on the show via webcam. Must be outgoing, must have a webcam, and a computer with at least 1 GHz processor.

MTV doesn’t mentions this - but we expect it would help if you are a babe or a hunk.

via MTV

The Washington Post is inviting people to create video mashups featuring Post political reporter Dana Milbank. Anyone can download Milbank’s questions as an MPEG2 video clip, and then cut it up, mash it up, even slap it up, flip it, rub it down, as long as it meets their requirements (below).

Earlier in the year, Rocketboom, the popular video blog, asked readers to mashup video of former host Amanda Congdon. The site provided a dinner and a website kit that featured video of Congdon providing half of a conversation.

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Serious Magic, creators of Vlog It!, has partnered with Tucows, a provider of wholesale Internet services, to launch the “Cow Tipping” contest. This contest invites web visitors to create tutorial videos about any software, hardware, or internet product of their choice.

The user-generated videos must be created using Serious Magic’s Vlog It! software and submitted this year between July 10th and August 10th to be eligible.

The Grand Prize Winner will receive: a Creative Labs Live! Voice web cam, a Creative Labs Video Zen Player, Serious Magic’s Visual Communicator Studio, plus a Blogware account from Tucows for one year. Two Runner-Up Winners will receive: a Creative Labs Live! web cam, Serious Magic’s Visual Communicator Pro, and a Blogware account from Tucows for one year.

Thirty videos will be selected for inclusion on the Tucows website. All entrants with videos selected for inclusion on the Tucows website will receive a Blogware account from Tucows for one year, a free copy of Serious Magic’s Vlog It! software, plus a green screen and microphone to make their videos look and sound their best.

Details are available at the Tucows site.