Conservation organisation WWF have announced an impressive line-up of judges for their twenty-thousand-dollar short film competition Life. Nature. You. Make the Connection. The deadline for entries has also been extended to November 1st - so there's still plenty of time to take part. The two best films will each win a 10,000 USD commission from WWF plus a trip to CMS Vatavaran, Asia's biggest environmental film festival.We're looking to work with creative, inspiring filmmakers who love nature and love this amazing planet of ours. Film and video can make a difference like no other medium - and we need your help to make it happen! Life. Nature. You. Make the Connection celebrates WWF's 50th anniversary and is open to all filmmakers who want to inspire their audiences to reconnect with nature.

WWF Video Producer Elma Okic will be joined on the judging panel by Andrew Jackson, Head of the BBC Natural History Unit; Maarten van Rouveroy, Greenpeace Senior Video Producer; Executive Producer and co-founder of "One Day on Earth" Brandon Litman; and Alka Tomar, Director of the CMS Vatavaran Film Festival. The judges will select one winner whilst the other will be chose by popular online vote.

The competition is being run in partnership with Vimeo and CMS Vatavaran. For more details check out www.panda.org/videocomp.

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