{"id":4246,"date":"2012-10-20T00:01:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T00:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/long-beach-filmmaker-wins-award-for-water-conservation-short\/"},"modified":"2012-10-20T00:01:36","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T00:01:36","slug":"long-beach-filmmaker-wins-award-for-water-conservation-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/long-beach-filmmaker-wins-award-for-water-conservation-short","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach Filmmaker Wins Award For Water Conservation Short"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-20336\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; cursor: default; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/CarlaD-AudienceWinner.jpg\" alt=\"CarlaD-AudienceWinner\" width=\"620\" height=\"459\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Recent Cal State Long Beach film grad Carla Dauden&#8217;s short film <em>The Wash<\/em>&nbsp;features two good-looking actors washing their cars, each one eyeing the other from across the driveway. It is beautifully shot and expertly edited, but it also has a message: wasting water isn&#8217;t sexy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, that message was received as&nbsp;<em>The Wash<\/em> was named a winning entry in this year&#8217;s&nbsp;Intelligent Use of Water Film Competition.&nbsp;The annual competition, presented by the irrigation company Rain Bird, aims to empower filmmakers to create shorts that address the issue of water conservation in new and ingenious ways.<\/p>\n<p>The hope is that new methods and ideas for responsible water use will be creatively displayed by the filmmakers and that the competition can serve as a platform to address the world&#8217;s current water challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Dauden&#8217;s film was announced as one of six finalists last month and was awarded the Audience Choice Award after a Beverly Hills screening and voting session on Tuesday. The award comes with a $5000 prize and is seconded in status only by a $10000 Jury Award win, which went to a Brooklyn filmmaker and his short, <em>Isla Urbana<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Watch Dauden&#8217;s winning entry below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/47638381\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/47638381\">THE WASH &#8211; 2012 Intelligent Use of Water Competition<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/anelzilic\">Anel Zilic<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-20336\" src=\"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/CarlaD-AudienceWinner.jpg\" alt=\"CarlaD-AudienceWinner\" width=\"620\" height=\"459\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Long Beach&#8217;s Carla Dauden&#8217;s short film&nbsp;<em>The Wash<\/em>&nbsp;was named a winning entry in this year&#8217;s&nbsp;Intelligent Use of Water Film Competition, an annual competition that aims to address the issue of water conservation in new and ingenious ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":69414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hi-lo","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4246"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=4246"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}