Agentic Digital Media Announces Inaugural VIFF Impact Award Agentic Digital Media, along with Story Money Impact, has sponsored the inaugural VIFF Impact Award. The award will be presented at the 33rd annual Vancouver International Film Festival to a Canadian documentary focusing on social issues. This prestigious award consists of a $5,000 cash prize from Agentic, and $5,000 in marketing and strategic in-kind services supplied by Agentic and Story Money Impact. A distinguished jury consisting of Hot Docs programmer and filmmaker Lynne Fernie, documentarian Julia Ivanova (Family Portrait in Black and White) and television news producer David Rummel, will award the prize to the documentary that has the highest potential to stimulate positive social change. The six nominated films are The Boy From Geita, Everything Will Be, Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story, Monsoon, The Price We Pay and The Pristine Coast. The winner will be announced at the BC Spotlight Gala on Saturday, October 4 at 6:30pm at the Vancouver Playhouse. Agentic recognizes the power of storytelling as a tool to generate positive change in the community. Together, states Phillip Djwa, president of Agentic, we are helping the next wave of filmmakers change the world. Through the sponsorship of the VIFF Impact Award, Agentic aims to support and promote Canadian impact production: documentary storytelling that is connected to a positive outcome. Additionally, Agentic is currently running a VIFF Impact Award Twitter contest until September 27, 2014. Twitter users have the chance to win two tickets to VIFF by tagging #VIFFImpact and sharing the title of any documentary that they feel has had a social impact. The winner will be chosen at random on September 27 and their prize will allow them to attend any VIFF film of their choice. Details can be found at twitter/agentic. ow.ly/C0xNZ
Posted on: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 01:50:04 +0000
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