Finale 20th Annual MY HERO International Film Festival

Dear Friends,

We wish you the happiest of Holiday Seasons, filled with love, joy and peace. If you're looking for some inspiring entertainment for the whole family, we have a host of activities that all can enjoy. Please read on for some fun and inspiring ideas and be sure to forward this newsletter to the teachers, students, friends and family members you know.

Best regards,

The MY HERO Team

Enjoy winning short films from The MY HERO International Film Festival.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 MY HERO International Film Festival.



View All Winning Films on the MY HERO website.

Read stories about the winning filmmakers and learn their heroes.

MY HERO has contests to encourage self-expression and creativity. People of all ages are invited to share their hero-themed work and compete for prizes. Click to learn more.

Submissions are being accepted for the 2025 MY HERO International Film Festival. Click here for Festival Rules, Guidelines and Info about Prizes.

The MY HERO Project's Visualize Heroism Art Contest provides a great opportunity, and activity, for students of all ages to showcase their artistic talents while celebrating the best of humanity. The submission deadline is January 20, 2025. Click here to see previous winners.

THE MARVELLOUS ONE

By Cheung Ching Yi from Hong Kong

First Place: Painting

Ocean enthusiasts can submit their short, hero-themed films for the Sylvia Earle Ocean Conservation Award, sponsored by MacGillivray Freeman Films Educational Foundation's One World One Ocean Campaign Sylvia Earle is a world-famous ocean explorer, scientist, and champion for the world's oceans. The Earle Award goes to films that show the beauty of the sea, or feature activists working to protect the oceans.

The deadline is March 1st.

Student artists of all ages are welcome to submit a portrait of their hero to the Robert Shetterly Portrait Contest. Works submitted will be judged by Robert Shetterly, artist founder of Americans Who Tell the Truth and the MY HERO Gallery staff.

The deadline is May 1, 2025.

Give your young poets a chance to hone their writer voices in the Mattie J.T. Stepanek Poetry Contest. The contest is open to poets, artists, filmmakers, and spoken word artists, who use their talents to tell about their heroes. The deadline is June 1, 2025.

Click here to learn more.

The MY HERO Teacher's Calendar has curated lesson plans to enhance classroom learning. Click on the calendar links below to explore some of our media-rich lesson plans.

JANUARY 2025

January 11 - Global Educator Esther Wojcicki featured guest at Eva Haller's Salon

January 16 - Charter for Compassion EdNet Forum with MY HERO

January 17 - Kid Inventors Day

January 20 - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

January 20 - Visualize Heroism Art Contest Deadline

January 27 - Holocaust Remembrance Day

MY HERO'S Media Arts Resources are free and available to help students make short films.

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