The Fuel Freedom Foundation, a non-partisan, non-profit organization based in Irvine, is dedicated to removing barriers to competition in the transportation fuel market in order to promote development of cheaper, cleaner, American-made alternatives to oil.

The Foundation is sponsoring a competition among Chapman University Dodge College of Film and Media Arts students to produce a 1-3 minute video that most powerfully communicates the Foundation’s mission, or one or more of the main Fuel Freedom campaign points.

The Chapman competition will serve as a prototype for what will become a national Fuel Freedom video competition.

After being screened for accuracy, entries will be posted by the students on YouTube and any other social media site. A first-place winner and two runners-up will be selected based on the virality of the videos, and on the judgment of the Foundation staff.

The winner will receive $5,000 and the two runners-up each will receive $2,500. The three videos will become eligible for a subsequent competition to produce a 5-8 minute mini-documentary video that expands on the earlier entry or otherwise aims to capture in somewhat longer form the essence of the Fuel Freedom Foundation campaign to change the national conversation about oil and energy.  The longer-form competition may include entries from other universities.

The winner of the longer-form mini-documentary competition will receive $15,000.

The winning and runner-up short-form videos will be shown at an awards ceremony at Chapman.

On May 9th, Fuel Freedom Foundation Co-Founder Eyal Aronoff will be at Dodge College from 1 pm until 5 pm in Marion Knott Studios Room 161 (Audition Room B) to answer questions about the competition, and to explain  facts and background behind the Fuel Freedom campaign and the U.S. economy’s dependency on oil. Those interested also should study the Foundation website at www.fuelfreedom.org.

 

Themes for the videos may include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Why domestic drilling and conservation, together or separately, will not solve our oil problem.
  • The difference between oil and energy.
  • The problem with a food vs. fuel argument.
  • Why fuel markets are not open – how to break the monopoly.
  • The advantages of natural gas, methanol and ethanol fuels.
  • How the AT&T breakup can show the way toward transportation fuel competition.

 The competition will open on May 21. Deadlines for submitting videos will be announced shortly.

 

To enter the competition, contact Robin Vercruse, Vice President of Operations at the Fuel Freedom Foundation, at: robin.vercruse@fuelfreedom.org.