“Story about a Place” is a student design competition sponsored by SMIBE.

With its first annual student competition, SMIBE brings together a growing body of moving image stories about the built environment. We hope the competition will become a forum for the exchange and discussion of persuasive issues about the built environment. For this competition, SMIBE welcomes moving image stories that investigate, explore, and entertain our communities about social, environmental, political, technological, and economic issues that designers of the built world should be discussing. What are issues that we should be addressing in our built world?

To answer this question, SMIBE turns to our talented community of college and university students from architecture, landscape, art, industrial design, interior design, motion graphics and film to offer a challenge: produce an engaging and entertaining moving image story that illustrates the theme of “Story about a Place.” We look for stories that reveal new sides or issues about a place told by memorable characters. Above all, we look for groundbreaking work that blends rigorous craft with intelligent storytelling. Submissions should not exceed 6 minutes in duration and can be produced in any motion image medium.

Ten submissions will be chosen as Finalists by a panel of prestigious judges invited by SMIBE. Subsequently, these judges will select one of the ten finalists to be awarded the Grand Prize of $1,000 and a unique SMIBE trophy. In addition, the top ten finalists will have their videos screened at the MAK Center in Los Angeles and at the Grand Central Arts Center in Santa Ana, as well as on the SMIBE.org web site.

In support of the challenge, once submissions are publicly showcased on the SMIBE.org website contestants will be asked to share information about their submissions and themselves. There will also be an online forum for audiences to discuss the presented work. We hope this sharing of work will inspire us as much as the challenge itself.

JURY (Partial List)
Lita Albuquerque, Artist
Juan Azulay, Mattter Management and SCI-Arc
Johanna Blackley, Deputy Director of the Norman Lear Center
Frank Clementi, Principal Rios Clementi Hale Studios
April Greiman, Designer and Director of Made in Space
Craig Hodgetts, Principal Hodgetts+Fung, and Professor UCLA
Paul Petrunia, Founder and Director Archinect
Geoff Manaugh, BLDG BLOG and senior editor at Dwell
Mike McGee, Gallery Director CSU Fullerton and Grand Central Art Center
Kimberly Meyer, Director MAK Center

SPONSORS
Archinect
Cal Poly Pomona College of Environmental Design
Economic Research Associates
Grand Central Art Center
The Next American City
MAK Center
Rios Clementi Hale

All questions and communication regarding participation in the competition should be directed to info@SMIBE.org

http://www.smibe.org/student-film-competition