Welcome to the Cinema Verde Teachers’ Resource page!

Project announcement and details here | Links to resources here | Exhibition Labels

We hope you’ll find information here that will help you and your students participate in Cinema Verde by creating environmentally-themed conservation, art, and literature projects.

CINEMA VERDE, the third annual Gainesville Environmental Film and Arts Festival, will be February 24 – March 2, 2012.

Please join us by engaging students in environmentally themed projects. This year’s theme is “Our Green World” and is open to students’ creative visions of the natural abundance and beauty of our planet, giving expression and meaning to what is valued about the environment we treasure and are working to preserve.Students are encouraged to submit art, literary and conservation projects on the theme, and we will seek public locations to display the best works during Cinema Verde. teachers: please select your best works for submission.

Each piece must be labeled with the student’s name, school, teacher’s name, grade, title, and media. Deadline for submission: Wed Feb 1, 2012.

To register or for more information:

Please contact Ken McMurry, Cinema Verde Arts Director at ken@verdefest.org

Thank you for joining with us in making the world and our community a little greener. We hope you and your students’ participation in these projects is a learning and growing experience as well as creative and fun!

Ken McMurry, Arts Director, Cinema Verde

Learn more about Cinema Verde: cinemaverde.org

Please check back from time to time as contest details and dates are finalized.

Cinema Verde also hosts a student film contest: 

Welcome to the school year! We’re gearing up for Cinema Verde and would like to let high school students know about our Film Submission contest (details and link below). We’d be happy to talk with teachers and/or students about participating in our film, art, literature and conservation projects, and I’d appreciate it if you’d let them know we’re available: 352-327-3560.

Florida High School Student PSA Competition

Florida High School Student PSA Competition: 30- to 90-second Public Service Announcements featuring an environmental issue or an organization working to solve an issue. Open to students and student groups in grades 9 – 12.

Please provide the following information with your submission:

• Student status
• Name of School
• School Contact

National High School Short Film Competition

National High School Student Short Film Competition: 30-second to 30-minute  featuring an environmental issue, sustainable solution or an organization working to solve an issue. Open to students and student groups in grades 9 – 12.

Please provide the following information with your submission:

• Student status
• Name of School
• School Contact

http://www.verdefest.org/film-submissions/

Thank you for joining with us in making the world and our community a little greener. We hope you and your students’ participation in these projects is a learning and growing experience. So get creative and have fun!

Cinema Verde

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Calling all Teachers! 

Show off what your students can do!

CINEMA VERDE, the second annual Gainesville Environmental Film and Arts Festival, is March 18-27, 2011.  Join us in engaging students in environmental education by encouraging participation in the following projects!

We are seeking the broadest possible participation from all Alachua County K-12 public, private and home schooled students.

• Create conservation projects in your local school and community. Examples include gardens, environmental-themed murals, recycling projects, litter clean-up, or school environmental challenges like the Zerofootprint Challenge. See the Links page for this and other ideas.  Be sure to document conservation projects for display.

Please email us at contact@verdefest.org with your idea or to let us know you are participating.

 Create art and literature on the theme of “Nature Where I Live” – backyards, streets, parks, the woods behind school, wherever students come into daily contact with the natural world.  Noticing their everyday experience of the natural environment can help students raise their awareness of it and their relationship to it.

Entries may be submitted in each of the following categories: K-2,  3-5,  6-8,  9-12, so please label each piece with the student’s name, school, and grade.   Works may be completed in or out of school.

Art work submitted may not exceed 24” in any direction (no 3D). Each teacher is asked to submit only high quality finished pieces.  No studies, sketches, or exercises, please. Students must describe their inspiration for their art in 50 words or less, and may include a title.   Art submissions will be made available for pickup after the festival.

Literature may be poetry, a story, or an essay – 2,000 words or fewer.  Please keep copies of any written pieces as they will not be returned. Please email a digital copy to literature@verdefest.org.  You will then be emailed instructions on where to mail a paper copy.

Documentation and posters of Conservation Projects submitted may not exceed 24” in any direction (no 3D). Each teacher is asked to submit only high quality finished pieces.  Students must describe their project in 200 words or less, and must include a title.   Submissions will be made available for pickup after the festival.

• All work will be submitted February 21, 2011. All work submitted must be accompanied by a completed information form available here.  Any updates will be posted here.
• Work from conservation projects as well as art and literature will be on display March 15-27 in a special exhibit at the Harn Museum or the Hippodrome State Theater. Free matinee screenings of one of our student-oriented films will be held during the festival for participating students.  Screening details to be announced.

Please email us any questions and let us know if you are planning to participate in any of these atcontact@verdefest.org.  We look forward to your participation.

Thank You!