We Are Shakespeare On-Line Digital Video Festival
The goal of this Festival is to inspire others throughout the world to share their own connection to Shakespeare, their love of the language and stories, or how he speaks the truth of their lives, through a diverse mix of tributes and performance excerpts.

Types of Submissions

Short clips (under 3 minutes) of live action performances of any kind, readings, animations, video art, graphics, songs, and music videos are all welcome. Three different ways to contribute:

1) Express your tribute using Shakespeare’s words: Short Performance Excerpts such as a short monologue; 14 line sonnet; a multi-person scene from Shakespeare; quote any of your favorite lines; a song from one of the plays, professional production clips. Share your favorites or try one of these examples. Any lines from Shakespeare are welcome!

2) Express your tribute using your own words: Talk about the importance of Shakespeare to your life or the world through Commentary, Tributes and/or Testimonials. If useful, respond to one or more of the following:

What does “Shakespeare” mean to you?

Talk about your personal relationship to Shakespeare. How did you discover his work? Where has that taken you?
Do you have a favorite Shakespeare memory of a live performance, film or reading?

How has your knowledge and experience of Shakespeare shaped your view of the world, life, relationships?

Which of Shakespeare's work speaks to you personally and why? Please share some passages.

Why do you think Shakespeare still means so much today?

Is Shakespeare a universal playwright? Why?

Why have you chosen to include Shakespeare in your life?

3) Express your tribute by creating a new way for the world to experience Shakespeare: Create an animation, song, dance, visual art pieces that you can visually record and share with the world. Examples - animations of Shakespeare characters or stories; a song or new poetry influenced by Shakespeare’s words, stories or characters; Shakespeare themed painting, illustrations or other visual artwork; musical compositions or dance inspired by Shakespeare’s works.

All Submissions must be under 3 minutes in length.

Fill out the following form completely to submit your project and THEN UPLOAD YOUR VIDEO in the following ways:

YOUTUBE

1.Upload the video to your personal Youtube Channel.  Anyone with a gmail account has access to their own YouTube Channel). After your video uploads, copy the link to your video.
2. Go to Shakespeare Theatre Association's ABOUT page by typing this link into your search bar (https://www.youtube.com/user/STA2016/about )
3. Click SEND MESSAGE button. Paste link to your video to the message area and SEND MESSAGE to Shakespeare Theatre Association.  Make sure your video Title on YouTube matches the title on this form.

OTHER WAYS TO SEND YOUR VIDEOS

If you have added the video file to your own GoogleDrive or Dropbox accounts, you can click the SHARE button for that video file and share it with suzanne@shakespearebythesea.org for Suzanne Dean, STA Digital Video Festival Chair. You may also send an email with your video attached directly to Suzanne, AFTER completing this survey.

Questions?  Feel free to email or call Suzanne at 310-408-7555 or suzanne@shakespearebythesea.org.
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