8th Annual Streets, Art, SAFE Film Competition 2023/2024 Season
Join us at the Awards Ceremony on May the 4th!
Location and Full Schedule Coming Soon
ABOUT
What is the Streets, Art, SAFE Film Competition?
The Streets, Art, SAFE Film Competition is a program for high school students to advocate for street safety through the arts, created by the non-profit organization Streets Are For Everyone (SAFE) who aims to improve the quality of life for pedestrians, bicyclists, and drivers alike by reducing traffic fatalities to zero.
In Los Angeles, traffic collisions are the #1 killer of our youth, ages 5 - 14. Traffic violence is a situation extending beyond Los Angeles, with California having the highest rate of pedestrian deaths on its roadways than any other state. This program aims to educate and empower students to do something about it through creative, fun, artistic, and impactful visual storytelling, while also developing film and visual arts expertise.
Check out this video to see what Streets, Art, SAFE is all about and how we’re making an impact in our communities.
Creativity and Change Through Public Service Announcements
Public Service Announcements (PSAs) use the power of communication to raise awareness on important issues needing a change in our society. They are a fun, creative, educational, and informative way to bring about that change.
The Streets, Art, SAFE Film Competition tasks high school students to research a traffic safety issue, of their choice, and produce a PSA about what they learned. The purpose of this program is two-fold:
Create awareness of traffic safety importance for our young adults, giving them the outlet of artistic expression to teach others about traffic safety.
Foster artistic creativity, allowing students to develop expertise in visual storytelling.
Film Competition Details and Resources
Supporting Teachers and Mentoring Students
Making a Public Service Announcement (PSA) is no small task. And the challenge is precisely what makes this competition fun and exciting! To help participating students understand the assignment, SAFE provides:
A complete Educator’s Guide with pre-made lesson plans, to help teachers educate and walk their students through the process of researching traffic safety topics as well as all stages of making a PSA. It does not have to be done in sequence and chapters can be used as needed for the students.
A list of 13 PSA topics to choose from.
Free resources and workshops students can attend to learn more about specific aspects of traffic safety or filmmaking (we call these “Opportunities”.)
Industry experts that are available to mentor students. This mentoring includes guidance on areas of potential improvement on scripts, storyboards, rough edits, and ultimately, their finished Public Service Announcements. This is optional, but many students have found it helpful in making winning PSAs. Submit for Mentoring here.
Educator’s Guide
It’s back! The Streets, Art, SAFE Educator’s Guide, with tools and lesson plans to help teachers walk their students through the stages of the competition.
Awards and Prizes
Incredible awards, prizes and acknowledgements, including the chance to win part of $7500 prize money!
Rules and Guidelines
Student Opportunities/Events
Free resources and workshops students can attend to learn more about specific aspects of traffic safety or filmmaking (we call these “Opportunities”.)
PSA Final Submissions
After your Registration Form has been approved, submit your final Public Service Announcement here.
The competition is closed for final submissions at this time. We will see you again next year!
New Awards and Prizes for 2023/24!
Due to expansion of the Streets, Art, SAFE Film Competition, the 2023/24 year sees additional awards opportunities being launched!
The competition will now be judged in two stages with awards given at each stage:
A regional contest, with PSAs judged and awarded by region in each category.
All regional winning PSAs are then automatically entered into the main awards festival and judged for the top prizes in each category at the annual Streets, Art, SAFE Red Carpet Awards Ceremony.
Awards and Prizes have now doubled with $7500 available to be won!
Thanks to a generous contribution from Honda, the Grand Prize this year has doubled, with both a grant being awarded to the winning school’s Art Department as well as funds directly to the winning student teams.
Special Awards Categories are back!
Due to popular demand last year, we again have two Special Awards Categories - both with their own cash prizes:
the Street Racing Kills Special Award
the Cycling Safety Special Award.
Any school or student team is eligible to submit for these awards. This means that student teams can have up to 3 PSAs submitted if they want:
their original registered PSA,
a PSA for the Street Racing Kills Special Award and
a PSA for the Cycling Safety Special Award.
Competition Schedule
(Opportunities and updates will be posted here!)
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18 Sept. '23
Registration opens
Opportunities open
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October '23
9 Oct. - Competition Q&A Webinar with Founder of Streets Are For Everyone, Damian Kevitt. (optional)
23 Oct. - Editing Webinar with CEO of EditMentor. (optional)
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November '23
1 Nov. - Mentoring submissions open (Scripts, Storyboards, and Rough Edits)
8 Nov. - Webinar with Founder of Street Racing Kills, Lili Trujillo. (optional)
14 Nov. - Q&A Webinar with Founder of Streets Are For Everyone, Damian Kevitt. (optional)
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December '23
4 Dec. - Competition opens for Final Submissions
6 Dec. - Q&A Webinar with Founder of Streets Are For Everyone, Damian Kevitt. (optional)
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11 Jan. '24
Q&A Webinar with Founder of Streets Are For Everyone, Damian Kevitt. (optional)
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Extended to 12 Feb. '24!
Mentoring closes
Registration closes
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Extended to 8 March '24
Final Submission deadline
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April '24
9 and 10 April - Regional winners Announced
11 and 12 April - Overall winning nominees announced.
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4 May '24
Streets, Art, SAFE, Red Carpet Awards Ceremony
8th Annual Streets, Art, SAFE Film Competition 2023/2024 Season
Registration is currently closed for the 2023/24, Streets, Art, SAFE Film Competition. If you have any questions, please email S_A_S@StreetsAreForEveryone.org.
Street Safety PSA Final Submission
After your Registration Form has been approved, submit your final Public Service Announcement here. Deadline is the 4th of March.
Have Questions?
Click here for our list of Frequently Asked Questions
If you still have questions, we’re happy to help. Reach out to us at S_A_S@StreetsAreForEveryone.org or call us at (844) 884-7233, extension. 804.
Best PSA Gold Award Winners
“Speed Kills” - Gold Award, Best PSA and Street Racing Kills Special Award 1st Place 2022/23
“Missing My Butterfly” - Gold Award, Best PSA 2021/22
“On the Curb” - Gold Award, Best PSA 2019/20
“Too Close For Comfort” - Gold Award, Best PSA 2020/21
“Yearbook” - Gold Award, Best PSA 2018/19
Streets, Art, SAFE
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Help Educate Our Youth
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SPONSOR
Help support aspiring filmmakers and arts education while also ensuring students learn valuable lessons about road safety.
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VOLUNTEER
Are you a filmmaker or street safety expert? Help volunteer as a student mentor, competition judge or at the awards ceremony.
Streets, Art, SAFE Sponsors
Thank you very much to Sponsors & Supporters of the 2022/2023 Streets, Art, SAFE Film competition!
Sponsors
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Honda
For more than 60 years in the U.S., Honda has been committed to making positive contributions to the communities where its associates live and work. Honda’s mission is to create products and services that help people fulfill their life’s potential, while conducting business in a sustainable manner and fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. Advancing its corporate social responsibility, Honda and the Honda USA Foundation support this direction through giving focused on education, the environment, mobility, traffic safety and community.
Learn more at https://csr.honda.com/
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Waymo
Waymo’s mission is to make it safe and easy for people and things to get where they’re going. The Waymo Driver can improve the world's access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. We are the driving force for the future of autonomous vehicles.
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Davidson Bike Law
Davidson Bike Law is a law firm for bicyclists and pedestrians run by avid cyclists and lawyers.
We advocate for safer riding and walking environments, and believe that riding a bike and walking are basic human rights and fundamental ways of living. We ride to work, depositions, hearings, mediations, on our bikes.
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Street Racing Kills Supports the Streets, Art, SAFE Film Competition
Lili Trujillo Puckett founded Street Racing Kills (SRK) in 2014 after her 16-year-old daughter Valentina was killed by a young man who was street racing and crashed while giving her a ride home. She knew then that her daughter’s death would not be in vain and would do everything she could to prevent another parent from losing a child. Her life changed forever that day. With Valentina by her side in spirit, her mission was born; to save lives by mentoring and creating awareness among the youth.
Supporters
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EditMentor
EditMentor is pioneering video literacy education through a cutting-edge web-based platform. We simultaneously teach the art of video storytelling and the technical skills of video creation within a self-paced, interactive curriculum.
Website: https://editmentor.com
Phone: (818)-850-2514
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XTR Studios
XTR is a premium global nonfiction entertainment studio.
XTR has a world-class production facility, XTR Studios, on the Eastside of Los Angeles that includes production and post-production facilities, a sound stage, and recording studio.
Website: https://www.xtr.com