Nokia Announces Finalists for the Mobile Filmmaking Awards
Posted on May 6, 2008
Filed Under mobile media
ESPOO, Finland and NEW YORK, May 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — The wait
is over. Nokia (NYSE: NOK) today announced the five finalists for the 2008
Nokia Mobile Filmmaking Awards which will be screened during the Pangea Day
broadcast on May 10th. The winners will be flown to Los Angeles to attend
one of Pangea Day’s six live broadcast locations on Saturday, May 10th.
Pangea Day was created by award-winning documentary filmmaker Jehane
Noujaim after winning the prestigious 2006 TED Prize. Together, Noujaim and
TED, with support from Nokia, have created Pangea Day to connect people by
harnessing the power of film and encouraging people to view the world
through someone else’s eyes.
The five finalists in the Nokia Mobile Filmmaking Awards competition,
which ran from March 19 to April 30, in no particular order, are: Pier
Bardoni for Cloud Running; Eduardo Cachucho for Game; Rupert Howe for
Amazing Rainbows; Bob Calabritto for Smile; and Kayoom Mistry for Rounds
All Around.
Contestants uploaded their two-minute long entries for the competition
to the Pangea Day channel at Share on Ovi, a free media sharing service
that makes it easy to upload, manage and share personal media through
mobile, desktop and other connected devices. Consumers who registered on
the site voted to select the five finalists.
All five finalists, chosen by online voting, will be flown to Los
Angeles for the event. A panel of professional judges - including Jehane
Noujaim, Dave Stewart and others - will review the videos prior to the
broadcast and pick a winner, which will then be announced during the Pangea
Day broadcast. In addition to the trip to the Los Angeles event, the winner
will receive a mobile filmmaking trip of a lifetime to the Rwandan Gorilla
Reserve and a production budget to record their trip.
On May 10th, millions of people all over the world will come together
to watch a 4-hour program of short films, coupled with talks from CNN’s
Christiane Amanpour and Queen Noor of Jordan, and with special musical
guest. Through the Friends of Pangea Day page at
http://www.pangeaday.org/events.php , anyone, anywhere can sign up and host
their own Pangea Day event or attend an event in their local community.
Though submissions for the 2008 Nokia Mobile Filmmaking Awards have
closed, images and films will live on at http://www.ovi.com/pangeaday where
you can continue to share your experiences about this special day.
For more information about the Pangea Day and the 2008 Nokia Mobile
Filmmaking Awards, visit http://www.ovi.com/pangeaday.
About Nokia
Nokia is the world leader in mobility, driving the transformation and
growth of the converging Internet and communications industries. We make a
wide range of mobile devices with services and software that enable people
to experience music, navigation, video, television, imaging, games,
business mobility and more. Developing and growing our offering of consumer
Internet services, as well as our enterprise solutions and software, is a
key area of focus. We also provide equipment, solutions and services for
communications networks through Nokia Siemens Networks.
About Pangea Day
Pangea Day taps the power of film to strengthen tolerance and empathy
while uniting millions of people to build a better future. Created by
award-winning documentary filmmaker Jehane Noujaim in collaboration with
the TED Conferences after she won the prestigious TED Prize, Pangea Day’s
mission is to create a worldwide network of caring and concerned citizens
who will make a difference. Visit http://www.pangeaday.org for more
information.
http://www.nokia.com
SOURCE Nokia Corporation
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