Sponsored by GoPro and Bos Ice Tea, entrants have until 30 November to submit entries between 30 seconds and 5 minutes in length that can explore all aspects and angles through documentary, stop-frame, animation or anything in between.
Short films are a great format for the Internet age and the popularity of adventure sports is higher then ever. With the advent of quality, easy to use action cams such as GoPro, almost anyone with passion can tell an adventure story and share it with a wide online audience.
Wavescape director Ross Frylinck says, "We have seen the exponential growth of adventure sport short films over the last decade at the Wavescape Surf Festival and Shortcuts has been created to celebrate and support this movement in South Africa."
"Action cameras are making it easy to create, manage, edit and share high quality video using innovations such as the GoPro app and newly released GoPro Studio. Anyone can now download the GoPro Studio application free and edit a great video using one of the templates provided. It is that easy," says Dewald de Jager of GoPro.
"We're delighted to be part of the Wavescape Shorts Film Contest," says Marié van Niekerk, marketing director of Bos Ice Tea. "It creates a wonderful platform for self-expression within the realm of natural sports and ties in with our philosophy of Joy through Creativity."
Winning entries will be screened at the Wavescape Surf Festival in Cape Town in December. Prizes include R30,000 in GoPro cameras, a custom Bos surfboard, a year's supply of Bos drinks and R5000 cash bonus if the winning film was shot on a GoPro camera. Entries can be submitted online at Wavescape Video Shortcuts. For more information on the festival, go to www.wavescapefestival.com.
