Results of our fourth film festival, October 2022
About
In the second half of 2022, Esperanto-USA hosted its fourth short film festival with cash prizes for the 1st–10th place winners. Films were accepted in any genre, but they had to be entirely in Esperanto, less than five minutes long, and feature at least ten spoken Esperanto words. In addition, a paper (not electronic) book was required to appear, at least briefly, in each film.
Judges
- Elle Beck
- Chuck Mays
- Tim Owen
- Orlando Raola
- Mara Rockliff
Prizes
- First place – $600
- Second place – $400
- Third place – $300
- Fourth through tenth place – $100 each
- Audience Choice Award – $100
Rules
Resources
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- Film Festival Poster
- A poster about the contest you can print up and share.
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- FAQs about Esperanto
- A guide compiled by Logan Hall about the Esperanto language and its community.
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- Pronouncing Esperanto
- A guide from David K. Jordan. How to pronounce Esperanto without even knowing any Esperanto!
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- The Making of “Piro Kavaliro”
- A video in which Rachel shows how they made their Esperanto short film for the festival.
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- Fajro! Fajro! kaj aliaj teatraĵetoj
- A full audiobook of short scenes and dialogues in Esperanto.
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- Jes, Avino
- An example film.
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- Jes, Avino-skripto
- The script for the sample short film Jes, Avino.
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- Formula Phrases
- Sample phrases in Esperanto from the textbook by David Richardson.
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- Rubric for the Judges
- The rubric which the judges use to give points to the films.
Donors
Special thanks to the generous donors for this year’s film festivals: Abraham Palmer, Brandon Sowers, Chris Johnson, Chuck Mays, Derek Roff, Gary Grady, and Tim Gee.
Results
31 new Esperanto short films were created for this contest and sent in from countries all over the world. Here are the winners:
And here is the complete playlist with all submissions.