Ghetto Film School and Stavros Niarchos Foundation have announced the six finalists for the 25th anniversary Humanity Inspires Tech filmmaking contest. The winners will receive a $3,000 production prize to help improve their projects.
Each fellow was required to tell two-minute stories on the relationship between technology and humankind using their chosen short-form medium. The finalists will receive production money and will be mentored by industry experts for a 10-week period.
John Legend, Camila Cormanni and Nikolas Aronis were some of the prominent jurists who selected the finalist films.
The winners and films include Netpich Udompanich’s “Taste of Tech,” Paola Camacho’s “1804,” Odysseas Spyropoulos’s “Me, Myself and The Internet,” Stephen Cullina’s “Mementos,” Gabriel Oh’s “Jolene” and Konstantino Kotsias’ “The impact of technology in our time.’
“All of us at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation would like to congratulate the inspiring winners of the film challenge,” said SNF co-president Andreas Dracopoulos. “Young people have invaluable perspectives to share on how technology can be a force for good in our lives, yet their voices are rarely heard in the conversation. Both in the content of their films and in the technology they used to create them, these six young storytellers show how tech can bring us closer to one another and help us better appreciate our own humanity…”
Sharese Bullock Bailey, chief strategy/partnerships officer and principal of Scope added, “We are honored to work with an organization so heavily dedicated to advancing the next generation of filmmakers and continuously showing the positive impact on the communities it serves…”