Celtx, the leader in pre-production software, today announced the Celtx Against Malaria Students Challenge. In partnership with the Against Malaria Foundation, the initiative challenges high school, university, and film school students to get involved in the fight against malaria by creating a media project which addresses the global malaria issue and inspires others to donate money to the cause.

The Media Creation Challenge
Help save lives by putting your creativity and talent to use! Create a video, film, TV ad, comic book, music video, or any other type of media that will help educate the public about malaria and inspire others to donate to buy a life-saving malaria bednet.

How to Get Involved
* Use Celtx media pre-production software (download free at www.celtx.com) to create an inspiring media project of any type (video, film, TV ad, music video, machinima, stageplay, etc.)

* Between October 1 and December 31, 2008 create your media project, tag it ‘camstudentschallenge’ and publish your project to the Celtx Against Malaria – Students Challenge website at http://pc.celtx.com/camstudentschallenge.

What Do I Get From It?
* Most importantly, the satisfaction of knowing that your work is helping to save lives.

And also…
* On January 15, 2009, creators of 3 different projects will receive the honor of determining the countries of distribution for 5,000 malaria bednets.
* Ten projects will be selected at random to receive a Celtx jacket and USB key.
* Select projects posted on the Celtx Against Malaria – Students Challenge page will be linked to and promoted on the Against Malaria and Celtx web sites.

Donations
Creating media isn’t the only way to get involved. Anyone can visit the Against Malaria Foundation site and donate to buy one bednet and help save a life.

DONATE NOW!: http://www.againstmalaria.com/CeltxNets

We’ll also tally up the donations made between October 1st and December 31st and the school with the most individual donators will be awarded a High Definition video camera courtesy of Celtx! (So remember to indicate your school name when making a donation).

View this PSA created by New York based filmmaker /photographer, Zack Wilson:
http://www.negativezerofilms.com/staging/cam/Cut_1/

About Against Malaria Foundation – The Against Malaria Foundation is one of the world’s leading malaria charities. 100% of the money raised is used to buy insecticidal mosquito nets. – http://www.againstmalaria.com/

About Celtx – Celtx is free, all-in-one pre-production software used by over 250,000 media creators worldwide to write and collaborate on film and video and media of all kind. – http://www.celtx.com/