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The Social Equity Venture Fund (SEVEN) is sponsoring Cinema Prosperite, a competition seeking short films between 2 and 5 minutes that profile an entrepreneur engaged in ethical and sustainable business practices. The grand prize for the competition is $20,000, with second and third prizes also awarded. Submissions are due November 15th. For full details, please go to http://www.sevenfund.org/cinema.

View existing entries here.

Cinéma Prospérité, strives to change the dialogue around solutions to poverty by infusing the world's imagination with new imagery, imagery that focuses on the solution: Entrepreneurship. We welcome videos profiling entrepreneurs in any part of the world. At SEVEN, we believe there exists an opportunity to change the terms of discourse surrounding poverty, to change the assumptions and behaviors of entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, aid professionals, academics, and business leaders by exposing them tothese successful models of enterprise-based development. We believe that entrepreneurs who are starting and running for-profit businesses in ethical ways -serving customers, treating and paying workers well, generating returns for investors, and achieving all these things without negatively impacting future generations or damaging the environment - should be celebrated.

With this goal in mind, SEVEN is funding the Cinéma Prospérité competition. Through it, we are inviting amateur and professional filmmakers around the globe to help us tell the stories about real people who understand that ending global poverty is serious business.

Submissions will be accepted for six months – from May 15 to November 15, 2008. Judging will happen online from November 15, 2008 – November 30, 2008. The winning videos will be announced on December 7, 2008.