Do you have any family or friends in college? Involved with a college campus or know someone interested in film or international issues? With $20,000 in cash prizes, this is a great opportunity for future filmmakers to highlight their talent while communicating a critical message.

The Center for International Disaster Information (CIDI) is challenging all college students in the United States to create a 30-second PSA that will raise public awareness of and rally support around appropriate international disaster relief by participating in PSAid: Public Service Announcements for International Disasters.

The goal of PSAid is to convey the message that

The 2007 Create Awards - one of the top creative competitions for professionals and students in advertising, film and video, motion graphics, graphic communication, photography, printing, interactive media, and copywriting - announces its official call for entries.

Following a successful first year, The 2007 Create Awards (www.thecreateawards.com) has tripled the Best of Show Award to a once-in-a-lifetime prize for the creative professional: a $30,000 Dream Studio Prize Package with products from industry-leading companies including: Adobe, Hewlett-Packard, Kodak, NEC Display Solutions, Alienware Computers, Wacom Technologies, Digital Tutors, Softimage (a Division of Avid), Iomega, Wiredrive, Microtek, Inovartis, LensBabies, E-Frontier, Spam Cube, AutoFX, Corel, Pantone, Tivity Software, and Extensis.

Also new for 2007: prize packages for all eight Best of Industry Winners (Advertising/Art Direction, Film + Video, Motion Graphics, Graphic Communication, Photography, Interactive, Copywriting/Words, and Self Promotion) and one Best of Student Prize Package worth more than $2,000. The winner of the Paper/Printing/Packaging Industry, sponsored by NewPage, receives their logo on a NASCAR car along with race day tickets to experience the prize.

The first deadline for entries is June 1. To enter the competition or receive more information, visit www.thecreateawards.com.

Gen Art and Planet Green Game, a partnership between Starbucks and Global Green USA, offer seven filmmakers an opportunity to share their thoughts, concerns, hopes and visions about the growing climate crisis by showcasing their "Green" themed short films through the Gen Art Online Film Festival. The festival will take place online and "in world" at PlanetGreenGame.com. Through online voting, one of the seven filmmakers will win $2,500 plus and a premiere screening at the 12th annual Gen Art Film Festival, presented by Acura, in New York City.

A panel of judges from Gen Art, one of the leading arts and entertainment organizations dedicated to showcasing the best emerging talent in film, fashion, visual arts and music, will choose the seven "Green" themed short films based on originality, quality of filmmaking and poignancy of "Green" theme. From March 29 to April 13, 2007, the seven shorts will be available for viewing and voting on www.genartfestival.com/online and through an interactive avatar based environment on planetgreengame.com.

A premiere at the 12th Annual Gen Art Film Festival will be an opportunity for the winning filmmakers to enhance their career by exposing their work to a powerful audience, gaining crucial media exposure and strengthening industry relations. Unique to the GAFF only two films are shown each evening of the festival, one short and one feature but on one of the festival nights it will be complimented by the Gen Art Online Film Festival Winner.

For more information, visit www.genartfestival.com/.

With almost $15,000 cash and prizes, Writers on the Storm is the hottest new contest around. WOTS is from Coverage, Ink and includes more than 130 participating companies hand-picked for receptiveness to new writers. Top industry sponsors including CREATIVE SCREENWRITING, Writers Boot Camp, InkTip, Popular Films, Great American Pitchfest, Scriptblaster, Coverage Ink, Save the Cat!, The Writers Store, Done Deal Pro and many more. The entry fee is $35 and all entries receive feedback. Entry is free if you submit your script to www.coverageink.com for screenplay analysis before the final contest end date. All entries receive The Writers Store and Coverage, Ink discounts. For more information, visit www.writerstorm.com.

InsideCG.com is hosting a wallpaper contest where contestants create a high-resolution (1600 pixels wide x 1200 pixels tall) desktop wallpaper featuring the InsideCG logo. Other than the InsideCG.com name and the InsideCG logo, the work must be entirely your original creation, and created for this contest. Digital Art, 2D, 3D are all acceptable. InsideCg will pick its three favorite pieces of wallpaper to win.

Submit your entries by email to wallpaper@insidecg.com. Entries should be submitted in .JPG format with a maximum size of 500kb. Include in the email your full name and e-mail address. Prizes include LightWave v9, Realviz Vtour, Realviz Stitcher Pro and messiah:studio Professional 2.4. For more information, visit www.InsideCG.com.

Recognized as a cutting-edge competition, Script P.I.M.P. allows for online submissions and guarantees that each script will receive at least two reads from a judging panel of agents, development directors and managers. All finalists become part of the extensive Script P.I.M.P. online community and get a free, five-year membership to its Writers Database (a massive collection of contact information, production company listings, and general industry facts). A Writers Workshop is also available to help develop scripts even further. Prizes for the four grand prize winners include: * $2,500 cash ($10,000 total) * Guaranteed circulation to over 20 Companies * Five-year memberships to Script Pimp's Writers Database * Featured 'Script Pimp Winner' listing on Ink Tip * Invitation to the Awards Ceremony in Hollywood on July 26 Prizes for the 20 finalists include: * Guaranteed circulation to over 20 Companies * Five-year memberships to Script Pimp's Writers Database * Featured 'Script Pimp Finalist' listing on Ink Tip

The Slamdance Screenplay Competition accept screenplays in every genre, both feature and short length, on any topic from every country around the world. The grand prize is $7,000 and best short prize is $500. The Duke City Shootout Special Prize gives the winner a production package worth $50,000 for a short screenplay under 15 pages.

Filmaka's aim is to encourage and inspire filmmakers from all around the globe with its upcoming May competition. Its new theme is "The Game." Film entries must run between 1-3 minutes in length and can be in any language (English subtitles are encouraged). Each month the top 15-20 Filmaka's win cash prizes and the chance show their filmmaking talent to its award-winning jury. Jurors include Colin Firth, Werner Herzog, Neil LaBute, John Madden, Paul Shrader and Wim Wenders. The jury picks three winners every month. There are more prizes and all three are allowed to compete in our 'Filmaka of the Year' contest at the end of 2007, where one director wins a feature film deal. Entry is free to all students. Simply email us from a valid school/university email address at collegeregistration@filmaka.com. Visit www.filmaka.com for further information.

MyLifeBrand is hosting a gamers' contest where you could ultimately win an HDTV home theatre system -- just by creating your own gaming community. In order to build awareness for this exciting new community, MyLifeBrand is hosting a contest where you could win prizes, the grand prize being a complete HDTV home theater system. The winner will be the person who can create the largest network of friends and fans using MyLifeBrand. There will be four communities -- each one based on a popular game title (GEARS OF WAR, MASS EFFECT, WORLD OF WARCRAFT and MADDEN '07). A winner will be chosen for each game-themed community, as well as one chosen as the grand prize winner for creating the largest community overall. Prizes include PS3, Xbox 360 and the grand prize mentioned above. For more information, visit www.mylifebrand.com.

AAA Screenplay Contest gives away over $8,000 in cash and access to more than 350 companies, plus two TV prizes (one for sitcoms, the other for one-hour dramatic) this year, and four CS Genre Fellowships have been created to find promising writers and offer them the guidance of a CREATIVE SCREENWRITING mentor to help them take their work to the next level. These special fellowships will be awarded in the Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Thriller/Horror and Comedy genres.

Entry fee is $40 for features, $30 for teleplays. Quarterfinalists will be notified and posted on the website by Sept. 15. Semifinalists will be notified and posted on the website by Oct. 1. Finalists will be announced by Oct. 15, and the winner will be chosen no later than Nov. 1.

For complete details, visit www.creativescreenwriting.com/aaa/index.html.