My View is a climate change video competition. You make a 1 to 5 minute digital film about climate change in Asia & the Pacific, and we’ll get the world to watch it. Your film can be in any digital video format – you can even use your mobile phone. We accept films in any genre, including but not limited to animation, documentary, drama, experimental, art, testimonial, etc.

It’s the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).  In 1989, world leaders decided that children needed a special convention just for them because people under 18 years old often are neglected in the human rights debate.  They created the CRC, the world’s most widely ratified human rights treaty, which [...]

We are delighted to share the winning submissions from the first round of the Adobe Youth Voices International Photo Competition. In May 2009, Adobe Youth Voices, a global youth media initiative, in collaboration with WKCD (What Kids Can Do), asked youth worldwide to submit pairs of photographs that capture what is challenging and what [...]

About the Special Issue
Edited by Professor Graham Roberts (Liverpool Screen School, Liverpool John Moores University) and Dr Dorota Ostrowska (School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media, Birkbeck, University of London)
This issue of Wide Screen is interested in the ways in which the contemporary media environment has changed the role and function of a [...]

You must have a good understanding of storytelling skills, dramatic structure and narrative. You must demonstrate the creative imagination required to project your vision on to the page, and to breathe life and individuality into your characters and the life-choices they make. You need to write visually, using sound and dialogue to support the action in order to create a credible and internally consistent story world. You should be creative, dedicated, well organized, and capable of working individually as well as a part of a team, to strict deadlines. You must be able to handle frequent rejection and criticism of your work with equanimity.