Young filmmaker receives award from Avatar & Titanic Producer Jon Landau
Los Angeles, California. 27th April 2010 — MOFILM, the video contest community that helps aspiring filmmakers showcase their creative talent for big brands and social causes, has announced the Grand Prize Winner of the Walmart ‘make an ad’ competition at a special awards ceremony held at the LA Film School.
The first prize winners are Matt O’Dowd, Brian Neaman, Michael Southworth and Jeff Roos from New York with “Guitar”
Matt, said, “MOFILM is the perfect platform to showcase our work and break through into the industry. Walmart’s brief really stirred up our creative thoughts as it was focused on showing how Walmart helps people to save money and live better.”
The Walmart contest was open to anyone over the age of sixteen (16) from anywhere in the world. Participants downloaded a brief from www.mofilm.com and uploaded their video to enter online. Walmart’s marketing team conducted judging.
The top three winners were flown to Los Angeles to meet with legendary producer of Avatar and Titanic, Jon Landau. Prizes included Walmart gift cards and $2000 in spending money. The Walmart team will also look at using the ideas and content from the competition for future campaigns.
Second Place went to Keith Rivers, Blake Lewis & Christian Jenkins from Seattle Washington with “Kitchen Beatbox”. Third place was awarded to Hanalei Parker from Reno, Nevada with “New Boat”
Ralph Cochrane, Co-Founder of MOFILM said “All three finalists’ work was of a really high quality. We were delighted with the response to our first LA Awards and we’re looking forward to working with these talented filmmakers again”.
About MOFILM
MOFILM is the leading video and film contest community for aspiring filmmakers, with members all over the world. MOFILM works with global brands to showcase talent and create innovative new ideas.
MOFILM filmmakers are valued by brands. Our competitions give our partners a chance to tap a huge reservoir of international filmmaking talent, as well as developing a wealth of content to be distributed online and via mobile devices. MOFILM contests also help brands engage with creative talent around the globe.
For more information, please contact: Press@mofilm.com. For the latest competitions please visit www.mofilm.com.
About Walmart
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT), or “Walmart,” serves customers and members more than 200 million times per week at more than 8,400 retail units under 55 different banners in 15 countries. With fiscal year 2010 sales of $405 billion, Walmart employs more than 2.0 million associates worldwide. A leader in sustainability, corporate philanthropy and employment opportunity, Walmart ranked first among retailers in Fortune Magazine’s 2009 Most Admired Companies survey. Additional information about Walmart can be found by visiting www.walmartstores.com and on Twitter at http://Twitter.com/Walmartnews. Online merchandise sales are available at www.walmart.com and www.samsclub.com.
