The Outlook for Someday
By Connected Media
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Podcast Description
The Outlook for Someday challenge is to make a short sustainability-related film. It can be any genre, filmed with any camera and any length up to 5 minutes. Anyone up to age 24 can enter, either individually or in a team. Here are the 20 Winning Films from each of the first 5 years. Check out the challenge at www.theoutlookforsomeday.net
| Name | Description | Released | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VideoToo Much - 2011 Winner | An uncaring attitude towards waste disposal leads to events of horror movie proportions. | 12/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoShopping for Our Future - 2011 Winner | How do our shopping decisions affect the world we live in? What choice do we have? | 12/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoMake a Tui Feeder - 2011 Winner | An instructive film that demonstrates how to make a tui feeder and maybe even attract The Tweeter Mob. | 12/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoGood Morning Sunshine - 2011 Winner | The simple, everyday ways one person can look after their environment - and the wilderness that awaits the unwary. | 12/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoKua Rahuitia Te Reo - 2011 Winner | A frightening future where a repressive regime bans the use of te reo Maori and chaos reigns. | 12/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoFlows to the Sea - 2011 Winner | A documentary about waterways and the challenge we face if we are to improve our water quality. | 12/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoLand-River-Sea - 2011 Winner | A documentary about the meaning of Kaitiaki and our responsibility to future generations. | 12/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoThe Renewables - 2011 Winner | Dastardly Consumerism Cad’s evil scheme threatens to destroy the planet, but The Renewables are on hand to foil his terrible plans. | 12/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoEnvironmental Man - 2011 Winner | Environmental Man raps about how to look after the environment while remaining true to your inner green gangsta. | 12/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoOutlook for Sumner - 2011 Winner | Following the Christchurch earthquake of February 2011 this documentary discovers that there is more to re-building than bricks and mortar. | 12/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoThe Greedy Little Huhu Grub - 2011 Winner | A concerned tui watches as a destructively ravenous little huhu grub consumes all around him, but Tui has a plan to foil Huhu’s worst excesses. A tale of what greed causes. | 12/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoFive Ways to Help the Environment - 2011 Winner | A colourful presentation showing some of the simple ways we can aid our environment – at times so vibrant you can almost smell it. | 12/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoChanging the Climate - 2011 Winner | Two roving reporters explore how young people can be instrumental in changing the political climate for themselves. | 12/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoIf I Cannot Dance - 2011 Winner | Where provocative art once flourished, bland corporate messages have taken over. An exploration into the background behind some visual images of protest. | 12/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoA Film About Sustainabilitree - 2011 Winner | A lifestyle presentation showcasing a range of characters and their passion for trees - and the potential hell that awaits us should trees disappear from our lives. | 12/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoA Drop in the Ocean - 2011 Winner | A piece of litter wafting in the wind causes havoc at sea. | 12/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoEnviro-Travel - 2011 Winner | Professor Ozone’s skill at invention plus an attitude that would make Charlie’s Angels proud enables a group of scientists to solve the climate change riddle. | 12/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | VideoTight Knit - 2011 Winner | A tug-of-love story about a well-worn, pre-loved jumper whose owner can’t quite face the idea of its demise. | 12/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | VideoGone - 2011 Winner | In a barren future, a desperate man is driven to communicate with his past self, and finds that a garden-variety household item holds the key to salvation. | 12/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | VideoRenno - 2011 Winner | Two fiercely competitive neighbours are forced to confront their environmentally unfriendly attitudes. | 12/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 21 | VideoThe Kaitiaki Children and the Birds - 2010 Winner | A group of children who protect birds have a message that we should all become guardians of nature. | 12/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 22 | VideoLookout for Someday - 2010 Winner | A poetic exploration of tension between economic and environmental sustainability. | 12/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 23 | VideoThe Envir-o-mentalists - 2010 Winner | We can all be superheroes when it comes to saving the environment. | 12/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 24 | VideoDown the Toilet - 2010 Winner | A story about how four students take up the challenge of saving water and recycling to conserve resources. | 12/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 25 | VideoState of Community - 2010 Winner | How the Canterbury earthquake of 4 September 2010 brought the best out of people and communities. | 12/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 26 | VideoCrossfire - 2010 Winner | A tense, fast-paced drama about fire danger and eco-activism. | 12/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 27 | VideoEarthsong - 2010 Winner | A portrait of a unique eco-neighbourhood in West Auckland which is based on co-housing and sustainable living practices. | 12/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 28 | VideoTechno Lust - 2010 Winner | A cautionary tale about unrestrained consumerism that asks “How many upgrades do we really need?” | 12/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 29 | Video7.1 - 2010 Winner | A documentary showing how one family survived the Canterbury earthquake of 4 September 2010, with important tips about being prepared for a big shake. | 12/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 30 | VideoNga Rongo Kino - 2010 Winner | For Maori ancestral tupuna are always present. This film honours tupuna who died in two world wars. | 12/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 31 | VideoKotomor: 3 Stories - 2010 Winner | They say that every picture tells a story. This documentary-with-a-difference shows how the story can change while the picture doesn’t. | 12/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 32 | VideoDrive - 2010 Winner | A challenging film about the fatal consequences of drinking and driving. Plan before you party. | 12/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 33 | VideoE Oho Te Wairua - 2010 Winner | A colourful claymation story about re-awakening the spirit of the Marae. | 12/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 34 | VideoPermanent Correction - 2010 Winner | A dark tale suggesting shocking consequences of over populating our planet. | 12/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 35 | VideoYear 2060 - 2010 Winner | A thought-provoking movie trailer for a disturbing near future that no one wants to happen. | 12/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 36 | VideoWhat Has Happened? - 2010 Winner | A music video that puts the question we have all asked, 'What has happened to Mother Earth?' | 12/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 37 | VideoHumans and Earth - 2010 Winner | An allegorical story about the troubled friendship between Earth and humanity. | 12/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 38 | VideoSam the Superworm - 2010 Winner | A story about saving our food that shows how everyone, including a small stripy worm, can help nurture and protect nature. | 12/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 39 | VideoThe Green Dot - 2010 Winner | A small film about a small plant that makes a big difference. | 12/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 40 | VideoMalice in Wonderland - 2010 Winner | A re-working of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ where life down this rabbit hole is bleak and polluted - until Wallis gets a big idea. | 12/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 41 | VideoPSA: Peak Oil - 2009 Winner | Words and images warn about the consequences of wasting resources. | 5/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 42 | VideoHome - 2009 Winner | Someone from another planet appreciates things about our world that earthlings seem to miss. | 5/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 43 | VideoMy Short Film - 2009 Winner | Two teenagers set out to understand what sustainability means and find the answer in a most unexpected way. | 5/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 44 | VideoBrighter Day - 2009 Winner | A music video that shows the sustainability choices we make today will determine how bright the future will be. | 5/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 45 | VideoJust Another Bottle - 2009 Winner | An animated film that says before we can change the world we have to change the way we think. | 5/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 46 | VideoAn Inappropriate Truth - 2009 Winner | A funny film with a serious message about what the world could be like when the resources run out. | 5/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 47 | VideoClimate Change - 2009 Winner | The full story on climate change from Christchurch where we find cows and people are contributing to the problem. | 5/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 48 | VideoArtistic Intent - 2009 Winner | An artist demonstrates an alternative lifestyle where many apparent necessities can be replaced, even money. | 5/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 49 | VideoWild Trash - 2009 Winner | A young boy learns an unexpected lesson about cleaning up rubbish and recycling and finds that others learn it too. | 5/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 50 | VideoThe Break Up - 2009 Winner | A cautionary tale about global warming told in the form of the phone call none of us want to receive. | 5/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 51 | VideoComing Soon: A More Sustainable World - 2009 Winner | A film trailer with a warning that the main feature could be global disaster. | 5/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 52 | VideoNepal - 2009 Winner | On a visit to Nepal a kiwi teenager sees street kids and glue sniffers under the shadow of Mt Everest and finds a way to help. | 5/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 53 | VideoS.A.M - 2009 Winner | Advice from outer space about recycling rubbish to save planet earth. | 5/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 54 | VideoNatural NZ - 2009 Winner | A farmers market shows the way to a sustainable future. | 5/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 55 | VideoCatastrophe - 2009 Winner | After the apocalypse a young girl imagines what the world was like and what it could have been if we had done things differently. | 5/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 56 | VideoFreshwater Crayfish In Pukekura Park - 2009 Winner | A school project collects data on creatures living in a local park as a way of helping to conserve species in the future. | 5/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 57 | VideoThe Visitor - 2009 Winner | An animated film that looks at meat production and global warming through the eyes of a furry green alien. | 5/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 58 | VideoOur Story - 2009 Winner | Using images and music this film explores issues around climate change. | 5/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 59 | VideoStumpy - 2009 Winner | An animated Stumpy shows us sustainability choices can be made in even everyday things like going shopping and watching TV. | 5/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 60 | VideoOur Whare - 2009 Winner | A bilingual film that shows couch tamariki how every little bit counts when it comes to saving resources in our homes. | 5/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 61 | VideoThe Greener Way To Eat - 2008 Winner | An animated look at the effect the meat industry has on our environment and the benefits of going vegan. | 2/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 62 | VideoThe Adventures of Earthgirl and Bioboy - 2008 Winner | Superheroes Earthgirl and Bioboy fight to save the world by taking down evil villain Pol Lution. | 2/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 63 | VideoTe Kume Pahikara (Bike Pooling) - 2008 Winner | A short comedy exploring an alternative way to travel to school, this film was made by students aged 13-14 from Te Wharekura o Wairarapa, a Maori language school in New Zealand. ‘Te Kume Pahikara’ won the Te Reo and Tikanga Maori Special Award for a film making use of Te Reo and Tikanga (Maori language and culture) in The Outlook for Someday sustainability film challenge for young people in New Zealand in 2008. | 2/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 64 | VideoMatariki 2008 - 2008 Winner | ‘Matariki 2008’ is a short film which documents a hangi, a traditional Maori meal in which food is cooked using heated rocks buried in the ground in a pit oven. The film was made by students aged 12-16 at Waiheke High School. It won the Sustainable Future Special Award for a film which advances the conversation on sustainability through a new perspective and/or critical thinking in The Outlook for Someday sustainability film challenge for young people in New Zealand in 2008. | 2/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 65 | VideoBeached - 2008 Winner | A post-apocalyptic film where a young man fights to keep important information about nature and science out of enemy hands. | 2/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 66 | VideoBe Green - 2008 Winner | Clever use of soundtrack and editing combine to make a short film about the benefits of biking. | 2/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 67 | VideoThe Cleanup Gang To The Rescue - 2008 Winner | An animated milk carton teams up with an aluminium can and a newspaper in order to urge people to recycle. | 2/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 68 | VideoMy Fathers Day - Video Diary - 2008 Winner | 12 year-old Simon Hannah contemplates what to get his father for Father’s Day while investigating the gift’s environmental impact. | 2/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 69 | VideoIt's In The Bag - 2008 Winner | This short film looks at the impact of plastic bags on our planet. | 2/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 70 | VideoDown And Dirty - 2008 Winner | This short film looks at some of the practical ways we can work towards a sustainable future, including making your own worm farm. | 2/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 71 | VideoWill It Ever Be The Same Again? - 2008 Winner | A short film set in the year 2053 where forests and snow are a thing of the past. | 2/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 72 | VideoSustainability - 2008 Winner | A group of teenagers take to the street in order to create some awareness around sustainability with varying degrees of success. ‘Sustainability’ was made by students aged 16-18 at Raphael House School. It won the Youth Participation Special Award in recognition of participation by young people among themselves and/or at a community level in The Outlook for Someday sustainability film challenge for young people in New Zealand in 2008. | 2/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 73 | VideoInside Ashburton - 2008 Winner | Parodying traditional investigative journalism, film-maker Luke Howden journeys across Ashburton investigating the town’s commitment to environmental issues. | 2/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 74 | VideoRoimata Huruhuru - 2008 Winner | This short film makes clever use of song to demonstrate the effect pollution is having on our native birds. | 2/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 75 | VideoRecycled Film - 2008 Winner | Using prose and archive footage, this emotional short film shows us what we have to lose if we don’t change the way we live. | 2/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 76 | VideoA Bleeding Case - 2008 Winner | This film uses the Film Noir genre to explore the dangers that large corporations present in the quest for sustainability. | 2/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 77 | VideoLiving Beyond Today - 2008 Winner | This short film explores the causes and effects of global warming. | 2/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 78 | VideoProtect Blue Ducks - 2008 Winner | Members of Kaitieke Primary School investigate ways to save the endangered Blue Duck. | 2/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 79 | VideoMr Box - 2008 Winner | A simple animated story showing how the urban environment can affect our mental health, ‘Mr Box’ was made by Calvin Sang, aged 14. It won the Film-making Achievement Special Award for a film with outstanding creative / technical quality in The Outlook for Someday sustainability film challenge for young people in New Zealand in 2008. | 2/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 80 | VideoHeart Beat - 2008 Winner | A passionate call-to-action to New Zealanders to start looking after the environment. | 2/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 81 | VideoProblems With New Zealand - 2007 Winner | A teenage view on how New Zealanders can reduce waste. | 12/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 82 | VideoMelting Ice, Flooded Homes, The Future - 2007 Winner | A simple lesson about how we can prevent global warming, from The Outlook for Someday's youngest winners. | 12/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 83 | VideoNineteen - 2007 Winner | This short film gives an interpretation of a post-apocalyptic world. | 12/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 84 | VideoA Sustainable Future - 2007 Winner | A call for action to make the policy and lifestyle changes required to combat climate change. | 12/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 85 | VideoPolluted Piako - 2007 Winner | Kid Witness News gives an energetic view of the polluted Piako River in the Waikato. | 12/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 86 | VideoSustainability: System Change or Climate Change? - 2007 Winner | Students and staff at Northcote College outline their sustainability initiatives and outcomes. | 12/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 87 | VideoHolcim - Paving the Way? - 2007 Winner | An investigative point of view on the impact of Holcim's proposed cement plant on Oamaru. | 12/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 88 | VideoPlay Your Part Right - 2007 Winner | A catchy rap song encourages people to play their part in cleaning up the environment. | 12/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 89 | VideoPeace Out - 2007 Winner | A grassroots production set in the future, which uses a fictional war to send an environmental message. | 12/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 90 | VideoPHASE Promotional Spot - 2007 Winner | A proposition which begs: if we had only known at the beginning of the twentieth century what we know now about the environmental impact of mankind's actions. | 12/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 91 | VideoTiakina o Tatou Awa - 2007 Winner | Outlines a community's attempts to restore the life-force to their local river. | 12/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 92 | VideoGlobal Warming - 2007 Winner | An animated look at the impact of global warming and possible alternative energy sources through the eyes of a 12 year old boy. | 12/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 93 | VideoAnd Inconvenient Tuth - 2007 Winner | A parody inspired by Al Gore's documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. | 12/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 94 | VideoKoro's Kumara - 2007 Winner | A short film documenting a school project, celebrating sustainable living. | 12/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 95 | VideoFirst Light - 2007 Winner | A personal take on a post-apocalyptic world. | 12/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 96 | Video'Homegrown' Clothes? - 2007 Winner | This short film questions the human cost of imported mass-produced garments. | 12/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 97 | VideoProgress - 2007 Winner | Experimental animation is used to show the potential hazards of destroying forests. | 12/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 98 | VideoParadise Lost - 2007 Winner | A point of view on environmental breakdown in Eastern Greenland that also questions the reality of New Zealand's 'clean, green' image. | 12/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 99 | VideoLife to Scale - 2007 Winner | A short film about living sustainably in St Clair, Dunedin. | 12/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 100 | VideoPost No Bills - 2007 Winner | A passionate take on the visual pollution caused by advertising. | 12/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 100 Episodes |
- Free
- Category: TV & Film
- Language: English
- ℗ & © 2011 The Connected Media Charitable Trust
