The 7DAYPSA Competitions & the Children's Hospitals International Film Festival
Boston 7DayPSA awards night at WCVB-TV 5
Film-lanthropy: Using film and filmmaking to help good causes.
Outside of OCD Associates projects in their spare time, and in their roles as advisory board members for Flickers, Andre and Duncan have created two non-profit programs for the Academy Award qualifying Flickers: Rhode Island International Film Festival
The Flickers: Children's Hospitals International Film Festival (C.H.I.F.F.)
This new kind of Children's Film Festival was created by OCD for the non-profit Flickers to bring amazing new short films from around the globe to the young patients in hospitals rooms across the United States, Canada and beyond. This program will be an annual event at each hospital (with encore screenings during the year) and it's the kids get to decide which films win the awards. The first CHIFF event took place at Boston Children's Hospital in the spring of 2017 association with their in-house Seacrest Studio (Ryan Seacrest Foundation). 2018 started with a wonderful event at the Willett Children's Hospital in Savannah, followed by CHIFF events at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, the Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago, the University of Iowa Children's Hospital in Iowa City, Scottish Rite Children's Hospital in Atlanta, Sick Kids in Toronto, Connecticut Children's Hospital in Hartford, UCSF Bennoiff Children's Hospital in Oakland, St. Jude's Hospital in Memphis, the University of Vermont Children's Hospital in Burlington, the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth, Philadelphia Children's Hospital, and UMass Baystate in Springfield. Andre and Duncan are hard at work adding even more hospitals. Follow this innovative program on Facebook and Twitter: @FlickersCHIFF
US Surgeon General Jerome M. Adams, MD.: “Recently learned about Children's Hospitals International Film Festival. They bring inspiring short films directly to hospital rooms of young patients who then vote on and pick the winning films. Putting smiles on children’s faces does wonders for healing.”
Lurie Children's Hospital, Chicago: "It was so great! The kids loved it bedside. Thank you so much for sharing this experience with us.” "Thank you for helping us provide such amazing programing for our patients. We had a wonderful experience working with you and the films were such a hit with our families. The best part was that we could provide patients the content bedside, as well as, in our play space. That is so rare! Your contribution and the part you played in creating a better and brighter healing environment for our children are greatly appreciated." Nicole Alkaraki, MA, LPC, Family Life Center Coordinator
Cincinnati Children's Hospital: “The CHIFF film festival was an amazing opportunity to bring patients and employees together to celebrate these awesome films! The voting aspect of the film festival was a wonderful way to empower patients with the chance to make their own choices on which film they felt was the best.” Whitney Osborne, Media Specialist, Child Life & Integrative Care, Seacrest Studio
Boston Children's Hospital: “I'm very excited to partner with the team at Flickers to bring this film festival to Boston Children's Hospital through our Seacrest Studios,” Maxwell Svec, Media Program Specialist at the Seacrest Studios at BCH
The 7DAYPSA
FLICKERS and the Rhode Island International Film Festival's Emmy Award winning Filmmaker Competition.
The 7DAYPSA Competition was conceived by the award winning creative team at Original Concept & Development Associates (www.OCDA.biz) for the non-profit Flickers Arts Collaborative (aka the Rhode Island International Film Festival) as part of their Creative Impulse Award programming.
The purpose of this competition is to challenge local filmmakers to use their creative skills and energy to meet a major need of local non-profit organizations, giving the filmmakers not only a wonderful experience and a great feeling, but also a broadcast credit for their resumes. The competition is designed to build professional bridges, spurring networking and opening professional doors for the participants. Helping filmmakers be proactive about their careers and their karma.
It is about the independent film industry using their creative skills to produce wonderful micro-short films that help out the non-profit world so they can meet the needs of the local community.
In an economic climate when deserving non-profit organizations continue to struggle for resources to operate, they do not have the funds to produce a broadcast quality public service announcement to raise awareness of their organization. It is this lack of public awareness that impacts both their ability to raise funds and to make the public aware of their services. Media outlets that had once been able to both produce and air public service announcements for free, no longer have the available production resources or personnel to produce those PSA’s. But there is a resource that is going untapped. Local independent filmmakers have the skills to produce original and imaginative micro-short films and are looking to garner professional credits for their resumes.
The 7DAYPSA Competition brings filmmakers and not-for-profits together to provide these deserving organizations with broadcast quality PSAs and also a commitment from our local media sponsor to air the spots. This is a real feel good competition. PSA production, air time, and contributions brought in by those 7DAYPSAs has been valued at many hundreds of thousands of dollars. To date our competing agency teams have produced wonderful spots for: Al's Moving Minds (RI), the Beverly Children's Learning Center (MA), Big Sisters of Rhode Island (RI), Birthday Wishes (MA), the Education Exchange (RI), the Elderly Living at Home Project (MA), Father Bill's & MainSpring (MA), Harborlight Community Partners (MA), the Maine Woman's Fund (ME), Mujeres Unidas Avanzando (MA), My Body My Choice (MA), North Charles (MA), Planet Dog Foundation (ME), and the Sensational Child (RI).
Since the competition’s beginning with competitions in Rhode Island, Boston and Northern New England, our filmmaker team’s PSAs have received three New England Emmy Award nominations (Public service Announcement Single Spot) and one Emmy Award statue, as well as a Best PSA award at the New Media Film Festival.
COMPETITION CITIES:
RHODE ISLAND 7DAYPSA (media sponsors: ABC-6, Cox Communications, WJAR-10, The CW-28) (previous sponsors: LDI Casting, Imagine Publishing, NEActor.com)
BOSTON 7DAYPSA with our exclusive media sponsor: WCVB-TV5 and in association with the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley (sponsors: Rule Broadcasting, Imagine Publishing, NEActor.com, the New Media Film Festival, Slate Casting)
NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND 7DAYPSA (Portland, Maine & NH) (media sponsors: WCHS-6 and FOX 23) (previous sponsors: Portland Models & Talent, Imagine Publishing, NEActor.com)
Outside of OCD Associates projects in their spare time, and in their roles as advisory board members for Flickers, Andre and Duncan have created two non-profit programs for the Academy Award qualifying Flickers: Rhode Island International Film Festival
The Flickers: Children's Hospitals International Film Festival (C.H.I.F.F.)
This new kind of Children's Film Festival was created by OCD for the non-profit Flickers to bring amazing new short films from around the globe to the young patients in hospitals rooms across the United States, Canada and beyond. This program will be an annual event at each hospital (with encore screenings during the year) and it's the kids get to decide which films win the awards. The first CHIFF event took place at Boston Children's Hospital in the spring of 2017 association with their in-house Seacrest Studio (Ryan Seacrest Foundation). 2018 started with a wonderful event at the Willett Children's Hospital in Savannah, followed by CHIFF events at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, the Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago, the University of Iowa Children's Hospital in Iowa City, Scottish Rite Children's Hospital in Atlanta, Sick Kids in Toronto, Connecticut Children's Hospital in Hartford, UCSF Bennoiff Children's Hospital in Oakland, St. Jude's Hospital in Memphis, the University of Vermont Children's Hospital in Burlington, the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth, Philadelphia Children's Hospital, and UMass Baystate in Springfield. Andre and Duncan are hard at work adding even more hospitals. Follow this innovative program on Facebook and Twitter: @FlickersCHIFF
US Surgeon General Jerome M. Adams, MD.: “Recently learned about Children's Hospitals International Film Festival. They bring inspiring short films directly to hospital rooms of young patients who then vote on and pick the winning films. Putting smiles on children’s faces does wonders for healing.”
Lurie Children's Hospital, Chicago: "It was so great! The kids loved it bedside. Thank you so much for sharing this experience with us.” "Thank you for helping us provide such amazing programing for our patients. We had a wonderful experience working with you and the films were such a hit with our families. The best part was that we could provide patients the content bedside, as well as, in our play space. That is so rare! Your contribution and the part you played in creating a better and brighter healing environment for our children are greatly appreciated." Nicole Alkaraki, MA, LPC, Family Life Center Coordinator
Cincinnati Children's Hospital: “The CHIFF film festival was an amazing opportunity to bring patients and employees together to celebrate these awesome films! The voting aspect of the film festival was a wonderful way to empower patients with the chance to make their own choices on which film they felt was the best.” Whitney Osborne, Media Specialist, Child Life & Integrative Care, Seacrest Studio
Boston Children's Hospital: “I'm very excited to partner with the team at Flickers to bring this film festival to Boston Children's Hospital through our Seacrest Studios,” Maxwell Svec, Media Program Specialist at the Seacrest Studios at BCH
The 7DAYPSA
FLICKERS and the Rhode Island International Film Festival's Emmy Award winning Filmmaker Competition.
The 7DAYPSA Competition was conceived by the award winning creative team at Original Concept & Development Associates (www.OCDA.biz) for the non-profit Flickers Arts Collaborative (aka the Rhode Island International Film Festival) as part of their Creative Impulse Award programming.
The purpose of this competition is to challenge local filmmakers to use their creative skills and energy to meet a major need of local non-profit organizations, giving the filmmakers not only a wonderful experience and a great feeling, but also a broadcast credit for their resumes. The competition is designed to build professional bridges, spurring networking and opening professional doors for the participants. Helping filmmakers be proactive about their careers and their karma.
It is about the independent film industry using their creative skills to produce wonderful micro-short films that help out the non-profit world so they can meet the needs of the local community.
In an economic climate when deserving non-profit organizations continue to struggle for resources to operate, they do not have the funds to produce a broadcast quality public service announcement to raise awareness of their organization. It is this lack of public awareness that impacts both their ability to raise funds and to make the public aware of their services. Media outlets that had once been able to both produce and air public service announcements for free, no longer have the available production resources or personnel to produce those PSA’s. But there is a resource that is going untapped. Local independent filmmakers have the skills to produce original and imaginative micro-short films and are looking to garner professional credits for their resumes.
The 7DAYPSA Competition brings filmmakers and not-for-profits together to provide these deserving organizations with broadcast quality PSAs and also a commitment from our local media sponsor to air the spots. This is a real feel good competition. PSA production, air time, and contributions brought in by those 7DAYPSAs has been valued at many hundreds of thousands of dollars. To date our competing agency teams have produced wonderful spots for: Al's Moving Minds (RI), the Beverly Children's Learning Center (MA), Big Sisters of Rhode Island (RI), Birthday Wishes (MA), the Education Exchange (RI), the Elderly Living at Home Project (MA), Father Bill's & MainSpring (MA), Harborlight Community Partners (MA), the Maine Woman's Fund (ME), Mujeres Unidas Avanzando (MA), My Body My Choice (MA), North Charles (MA), Planet Dog Foundation (ME), and the Sensational Child (RI).
Since the competition’s beginning with competitions in Rhode Island, Boston and Northern New England, our filmmaker team’s PSAs have received three New England Emmy Award nominations (Public service Announcement Single Spot) and one Emmy Award statue, as well as a Best PSA award at the New Media Film Festival.
COMPETITION CITIES:
RHODE ISLAND 7DAYPSA (media sponsors: ABC-6, Cox Communications, WJAR-10, The CW-28) (previous sponsors: LDI Casting, Imagine Publishing, NEActor.com)
BOSTON 7DAYPSA with our exclusive media sponsor: WCVB-TV5 and in association with the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley (sponsors: Rule Broadcasting, Imagine Publishing, NEActor.com, the New Media Film Festival, Slate Casting)
NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND 7DAYPSA (Portland, Maine & NH) (media sponsors: WCHS-6 and FOX 23) (previous sponsors: Portland Models & Talent, Imagine Publishing, NEActor.com)