How to get involved

Becoming part of the NOW! project is almost as simple as contributing footage to the One World TV website, with one small difference: we will need hard copies (tapes) of footage as opposed to the digital files that you upload to the One World site.

There is a very good reason for this, in that in order to produce a film of sufficient quality to project onto large digital screens in cinemas and festivals we will need the highest quality resolution footage we can get.

All you need to do is go out and shoot some footage; register with us online; and send us your tapes marked with your NOW! label (as issued by us when you complete a Submission Form) we will give you a page of information to print out and send along with your tape - PLEASE DO NOT SEND TAPES WITHOUT FIRST COMPLETING A SUBMISSIONS FORM ONLINE!

However, although our preference is to simply be sent hard copy, there is also the option of sending us a preview of your work by uploading some samples to this site. You might choose to do this before sending us hard copies if the cost of sending tapes is daunting for you. To do this you must also register with us online first.

MiniDV will be our main format though we can handle other DV formats. But if you have incredible footage on other formats, we still want to see it!

The Process

What we will do with your footage:

As tapes arrive we will preview your footage and label your clips in your name as they are digitised. As we build up the library of footage we will start to draw out emerging themes and ideas. We aim to post clips up on a ‘preview’ section of this site so that participating film-makers can comment on trial sequences of film. As strong themes emerge from contributed footage we can feed this back through the website and encourage you to film additional footage to build on these themes; Stories or themes will thereby be co-created by multiple contributors, in a process similar to, or inspired by that pioneered by One World TV. We can't know exactly how this will work - it will be an exploration of what open, collaborative cinema could be!

When we achieve our final cut of NOW! all participating film-makers in the project will be contacted via email to inform them whether their footage has been incorporated into the film. Those film-makers that have been successful in achieving this will then become eligible for possible profit-sharing under the rules laid out in the Terms and Conditions.