Filmmakers, take ACTION! Get your film seen by the director of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Join NASA’s Orion and Space Launch Systems teams and SciArt Exchange in visualizing humans venturing into deep space, to the Moon and beyond to Mars. Interested college students and early career professionals worldwide are invited to submit short films and graphic art about this mission, what astronauts may see, and their dreams for the future of exploration. Entries will be judged by film and graphics industry professionals and NASA astronauts. Winning entries will be screened at an Opening Event at NASA visitor centers, NASA museum consortium members, micro cinemas, and other interested venues in Fall 2018. The top film will win $10,000, and the top poster will win $1500. You may use NASA images, videos, and 3D models in your projects. Link to footage here. TELL YOUR STORY OF NASA’S PLANS FOR MARS! In collaboration with NASA, SciArt Exchange presents Project Mars Competition: your chance to tell the story of human exploration of deep space. NASA’s exploration missions will help build a flexible, reusable and sustainable infrastructure that will last multiple decades and support missions of increasing complexity to enable missions to Mars. Orion is NASA’s new spacecraft that will take astronauts to the Moon and beyond to make new discoveries about our solar system and unlock the mysteries of our own planet Earth. Orion will launch from a modernized Kennedy Space Center in Florida on NASA’s new heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System, the most powerful rocket in the world, capable of launching and carrying habitation, propulsion and logistics modules for a proposed deep space gateway, as well as landers, rovers and other surface systems that will be needed for a Martian voyage. FILM SPECIFICATIONS Videos can be submitted as private Vimeo or YouTube links. Winning entries will need to be provided at the following settings: Duration: 2 to 5 minutes Resolution: 1920x1080 Frame rates: 29.97, 24, or 25 Bitrate: 20Mbs Codec: H.264 Sound Codec: AAC-LC Audio sample rate: 48 KHz Audio bitrate: 320 kbps PRIZES Three prizes will be awarded in the film category: $10,000 Grand Prize $5,000 Judge’s Prize $5,000 Judge’s Prize Visit www.ProjectMarsCompetition.org for details & signup to receive more information! Entries are due August 31, 2018.