Category: Video Contests

  • “Blessed:” My Entry for the “India Is” Video Contest

    All living things love their life, desire pleasure and do not like pain; they dislike any injury to themselves; everybody is desirous of life and to every being, his life is very dear.” –  from the Yogashastra (Jain Scripture), from around 500 BC. While on an early morning photowalk at Marina Beach in Chennai, India, I…

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  • My Destination’s “Biggest Baddest Bucket List” and Namibia

    Here’s a great idea for a video contest:  make a 3 minute video about a favorite destination, write a few hundred words about travel, and send three photos.  What can you win?  a six-month, all-expense-paid trip around the world, and fifty grand in cash when it’s all over (presumably to make up for lost salary?)…

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  • My Entries in FVAP.gov’s Video Contest

    I decided to go out on a limb and enter another video contest after a long break. FVAP.gov, the federal absentee voting site, is hosting a contest wherein people can win $1,000 in five different categories. Unfortunately (but fortunately for me) it doesn’t seem to be too well publicized. And it’s one of the few…

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  • 2012 Project Reason Video Contest Winners

    Check out this year’s winners of the Project Reason video contest.  I worked on en entry for this a few years ago (when the contest first started and there was still a chance of winning) but now the entries have gotten too good for an amateur like me.  Winner gets $10,000! More information on the…

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  • Two Video Contests

    When you love animals as much as we do in our family, it’s hard to get upset with folks sponsoring a video contest to support the ASPCA.  And I didn’t really need the half of the prize that would have gone to me – an iPad (the other half was a $500 donation to our…

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  • Video Contest for Pets

    I submitted a quick entry to GoodNewsforPets.com’s 10th Anniversary Holiday video/photo contest. They ask for a minute / 5 MB (max) describing a holiday moment with a pet, with emphasis on the human-animal bond.  The interesting twist in this contest is that you can submit either a video, or a photo with a 100-400 words…

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  • Vimeo Awards Winners

    Check out loads of cool videos from over 6,500 submissions in Vimeo’s short film festival.  The winners are posted here and the community choice awards are here.  Plenty of great viewing from filmmakers you never heard of.

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  • Help Us Win! (please?)

    For our latest video contest entry, my daughter and I teamed up.  My daughter has become a video editing enthusiast in her own right and checks several online web sites about once a week for contests she wants to enter.  She found the Green Eggs and Ham “Ham it Up” Contest being run to celebrate…

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  • Army Peer-to-Peer Safety Video Contest

    Good news and bad news – my entry to the US Army Combat Readiness / Safety Center’s video contest was approved, but so were a load of others!  The contest has been running since October, but like most video contests, most of the entries will be rolling in close to the 30 April deadline.  So…

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  • Two Contests

    Patiently awaiting the results of two video contests I’ve entered:  Reel Insights’ monthly contest and a last-minute entry to WordPress.com’s “Give Thanks” contest. In the Reel Insights contest, mine was the only entry for about two weeks.  Then there was a second with a couple days ago, and during the last 24 hours of the…

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  • Contest Winner!

    Imagine my surprise at receiving an email informing me TAZM Pictures’ entry in the video contest, “A Family Struggles with Going Green,” sponsored by Reelinsights.com, was selected as the Grand Prize Winner! This marks my second attempt at the documentary format, which is a challenge to do well – at least I think so.  The…

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  • Two More Contest Entries

    I’ve re-tooled an old video from Washington DC – in fact, this is the video that inspired me to start this site (with some friendly encouragement) – and entered it into Lonely Planet’s video contest. Also, my video joins at least two others in a quest for a $1500 prize in Reel Insights’ monthly contest…

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  • eCompliments Contest Winner

    Well, the smoke cleared and…the TAZM Pictures entry on the eCompliments video contest ended up in 12th place.  Things were going well; just as it looked like we would drop off the bottom (the lowest-ranked video was dropping off the “marquis”, one per day) the work publicizing the video on Twitter started making a difference. …

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  • A Video Contest to Support the Troops!

    After some recent small successes, we’re taking a shot at the eCompliments video contest offers a grand prize of $10,000 for the highest-rated video (as voted by the public) that compliments any person, place, thing, business, organization…you get the picture. As of this writing we’ve got 90 votes, behind the front-runner with well over 1,000…

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  • Another Contest!

    TAZM Pictures submitted three entries to the Lowe’s Spring Dream Video contest (http://www.youtube.com/lowes)! Only the first two were accepted – no idea why! Click on the title of this post to see the videos that we submitted and read more details.

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  • TAZM Pictures has entered a video contest!

    Whether you want to use our services or not, we can sure use your support in a YouTube video contest! TAZM Pictures has entered two videos in a contest for Taxslayer.com that carry a grand prize of $25,000. Winning this contest will help us improve the kinds of services we can offer with our young…

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