The Outlook for Someday 2007

The mission for anyone up to the age of 20 was to make a short film, up to 5 minutes, about how you see the future unfolding; to look at your world through a lens of sustainability; to give your personal take on what matters to you, focused on the future.

The Project Partners were Connected Media, the Enviroschools Foundation and the Global Education Centre.

The Screen Partners were Māori Television and TVNZ 6. Māori Television hosted the launch on 21 June. TVNZ hosted The Outlook for Someday Awards on 9 November. Prime Minister Helen Clark gave out the prizes.

There were 20 Winning Films, including one Best Film Containing Te Reo and Tikanga Māori. They were broadcast on TVNZ 6.

Five of the Winning Films - Post No Bills, Tiakina o Tātou Awa, A Sustainable Future, Play Your Part Right and PHASE Promotional Spot - were featured on Māori Television in The Outlook for Someday documentary, a Connected Media production for Māori Television made with funding from New Zealand On Air.

In the documentary, which was presented by Kiritapu Allan, the film-makers showed their films to some of Aotearoa's finest and most influential people from the worlds of hip-hop and art, politics, advertising and film: Prime Minister Helen Clark, Leader of the Opposition John Key, the Māori King Tuheitia Paki, Oscar nominee Keisha Castle-Hughes, hip-hop pioneer DLT and advertising heavyweight Toby Talbot.

The vote for Audience Favourite ended in a tie between And Inconvenient Tuth and Life to Scale.

You can watch the Winning Films from 2007 here. They are also available as podcasts from iTunes.

The Winning Films and the Documentary are available on DVD from Connected Media.

The Outlook for Someday 2008

This is what we asked of anyone up to the age of 20 in 2008:

What does sustainability mean for the world and for you?
What does it mean for your community or neighbourhood?
What do you want to say about it?

The Project Partners were Connected Media, the Enviroschools Foundation and the Global Education Centre. The Screen Partner, TVNZ 6, broadcast the Winning Films.

TVNZ hosted The Outlook for Someday Awards on 4 December. This time, as well prizes for the 20 Winning Films, there were 4 Special Awards.

Keisha Castle Hughes presented the awards for the 20 Winning Films and Minister of Youth Affairs Paula Bennett presented the Special Awards.

Mr Box won the Film-making Achievement Special Award

Matariki 2008 won the Sustainable Future Special Award

Sustainability won the Youth Participation Special Award

Te Kume Pahikara (Bike Pooling) won the Te Reo & Tikanga Māori Special Award

Those 4 films plus Inside Ashbuton and It's In The Bag were featured on TV2 in the I AM TV Presents The Outlook for Someday documentary special, a Connected Media production for TVNZ made with funding from New Zealand On Air.

The documentary was presented by Olly Coddington. He showed excerpts from the winning films and put the makers of the featured films through some new sustainability challenges. He was joined by five high-profile New Zealanders: League legend Tawera Nikau, ONE News reporter Jack Tame, Green politician and organic famer Jeanette Fitzsimons, musician Fran Kora and actor Taungaroa Emile.

Mr Box won the vote for Audience Favourite.

You can watch the Winning Films from 2008 here. They are also available as podcasts from iTunes.

The Winning Films and the Documentary are available on DVD from Connected Media.

The Outlook for Someday 2009

This is what we asked of anyone up to the age of 24 in 2009:

Are we on the verge of something huge?
Are you excited or freaked?
Can small actions by lots of people create positive change?
What does sustainability really mean?
What does it look like?

The Project Partners were Connected Media, the Enviroschools Foundation and WWF New Zealand. The Screen Partner, TVNZ 6, again broadcast the 20 Winning Films.

TVNZ hosted The Outlook for Someday Awards on 10 December. There were prizes for the 20 Winning Films and 7 Special Awards.

The Break Up won the Connected Media Sustainable Future Award

Home won The Body Shop Film-making Achievement Award

Natural NZ won the New Zealand Post NZ Focus Award

Freshwater Crayfish in Pukekura Park won the Ministry of Youth Development Youth Participation Award

Our Whare won the Te Puni Kōkiri Te Reo & Tikanga Māori Special Award

The Visitor won the WWF Secondary School Film-makers Award

Stumpy won the Enviroschools Primary / Intermediate School Film-makers Award

For the first time the judges also named a ‘Standout Winner': The Break Up. They noted that "the film shows a natural flair for storytelling and film making" and that the film-maker Charlee Collins has "a great career in film ahead of her."

The Break Up went on to win the vote for Audience Favourite.

Connected Media entered The Break Up into the Panda Awards, known as "the green OSCARS ®", at the international Wildscreen Festival. It was then chosen from among 446 entries from 45 countries as a Panda Award finalist, competing for the Jury's Choice Award at the festival in October 2010.

You can watch the Winning Films from 2009 here. They are also available as podcasts from iTunes and on a DVD from Connected Media.