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Entries sought for young film maker competition

An European Agency For Safety And Health At Work product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Feb 21, 2006

The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EASHW) is inviting entries for the first 'Safe Start - European Young Film Maker of the Year' video competition.

The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EASHW) is inviting entries for the first 'Safe Start - European Young Film Maker of the Year' video competition.

The competition is part of the European Week 2006, which, under the slogan 'Safe Start!', is dedicated to young people to ensure a safe and healthy start to their working lives.

"Young people at work are the focus of our campaign this year as they run a 50 per cent higher risk of work accidents than any other age category", explains Hans-Horst Konkolewsky, director of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work.

"As part of the 'Safe Start!' campaign, the Agency will promote risk awareness and risk prevention in enterprises, schools and colleges across Europe.

"Through the competition for young film makers we invite young people to express and share their views on workplace safety".

The video competition is open to schools and to young people under the age of 19 on 30 September 2006 working as individuals or as a team.

Young people are invited to create a short documentary, drama, TV commercial, news report, music, animation - whatever gets the message out about safety and health at work - to capture on film the workplace, people at work and some of the potential dangers, risks and hazards at work.

Producers are encouraged to interpret the brief as widely as possible and not to simply think of the obvious.

Entries must be made by a teacher or by another responsible person at a school or college in DVD format.

Entries from individual young people will not be accepted.

The maximum running time is five minutes.

The closing date for the competition is 30 September 2006.

An independent jury of experts in communications, safety and health will evaluate all the entries, looking for compelling images and a good storyline that will grab their attention.

The jury will consider three criteria: effectiveness of the message, treatment of the subject and the overall impression.

The Agency will award prizes to the producers whose film images catch the eye of the jury.

The producers - individuals or teams - of the best three films will be awarded the title of 'Safe Start - European Young Film Maker of the Year', and invited to an Awards Ceremony in Bilbao, Spain, in March 2007.

The full rules of the competition and national contact details are on the campaign's website.

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