London Eco Film Festival - Creative Entrepreneurship grants and prizes

EVENT POSTPONED UNTIL NOVEMBER 2021 We apologise for any inconvenience caused. Please email James at creative@fairearthfoundation.org if you have any questions. The Fair Earth Foundation is offering the chance for young creative minds to be part of something bigger! We are offering two prizes, The Creative Entrepreneurs fund and the Dare2Dream Prize. For more in depth information on these prizes, please visit http://www.theleff.org/creative-entrepreneurship.html The Creative Entrepreneurs Fund We want you to grasp the opportunity of a lifetime and start-up that business you've always dreamed of. One inspirational entrepreneur will win £10,000 and mentor-ship to start up their own company with an environmental focus. The Dare2Dream Prize Turn your creative ideas into a reality with our Dare2Dream prize. We will facilitate one young creative mind to fulfil their idea. We will support one brilliant idea from the following categories: - Film Making - Photography - Illustration - Story Telling - Graphic Design - Music - Poetry/ Spoken Word We are especially interested in funding ideas that focus on specific themes, such as the impact of Coronavirus on everyday lives, environmental causes, art & nature, poverty, disadvantage, discrimination and human rights but any and all ideas are accepted. For each Prize, five shortlisted entries will be shown at The London Eco Film Festival (part of the Fair Earth Foundation Family), held in March 2021, and the winner will be chosen at the festival by a panel of judges. ------ To be considered for either of these prizes, please submit a video of length less than five minutes that includes the following: 1.) Who you are - what’s your background, what are your inspirations? 2.) The idea - what do you hope to achieve? 3.) How you will use the funding? **For the entrepreneurs fund, we need a breakdown of where you would invest the £10,000 and how you are going to generate returns to sustain the business.** 4.) If applying for the Creative Entrepreneurs Fund, we want to know how you will benefit from the mentorship offered; tell us how you will work with your mentor to further your business, and how you will use their expertise to sustainably grow and maintain your company. 5.) You will need to detail how you plan to ensure that your business or creative idea will be sustainable, after initial support from the Fair Earth Foundation.