Leading film and movie portal, FilmEmerge creates a venue for budding filmmakers to help promote their cinematography skills, while assisting local businesses with their marketing and advertising.
The FilmEmerge Commercial Film Challenge is the first local business and filmmaker commercial competition in Michigan, bringing filmmaking teams together to make a :30 second and 1:00 minute commercial from scratch — teams write, shoot, edit and score a commercial. FilmEmerge plans on rolling out the competition to other major markets.
“With the current economic environment for small businesses, in conjunction with the emerging Michigan Film Industry Tax Incentives for filmmaking, we had to create a forum in which we could give back to the small business owners,” says FilmEmerge CEO-Jonathan Rayos.
“The Commercial Film Challenge proceeds will help benefit local homeless shelters, will help create the ‘Movies For Shelters’ program and also help in creating scholarships for filmmakers,” adds Mr. Rayos.
Filmmakers compete to see who can make the best commercial. The winning commercial receives a $250 cash prize. Other electronic prizes will also be available. All commercials will be promoted online.
Mr. Rayos says, “local Businesses will get a :30 second and 1:00 minute web commercial made to promote their business by local filmmakers,” he adds, “Where else can you get a commercial made for less than $100?”
