Funding Provided by:

Linda Flanders
Bay City, Wisconsin
3.73444
International Feldenkrais trainer Russell Delman, explains how the...
142
Amy Parravano
Little Rhody
3.109375
eclectic outtake physcially emotional release exploring time...
52
Chelsea Spear
Medford MA
3.729325
Why keep a journal? Three women -- poet/bookmaker Sarah Westbrook...
56
Anna Pinkert
Cambridge, MA
3.71154
What if you woke up tomorrow trapped in the body of an insect? You...
48
Jehan S. Harney
Baltimore & Maryland
3.689655
The Colors of Veil explores the journey of a former US soldier who...
20
Chad McCool
Denver, CO
3.82323
A personally therapeutic piece covering my children during the...
6
Chris Hastings
Boston, MA
3.083335
A new open call for you!
0
Michael Ricciardi / George Aguilar
Seattle WA / San Francisco CA
3.76271
If Evolution, as a totality, became self-aware, and could express...
14
Lisa Molomot
Connecticut/Paris
3.82
Bus 63 is a short, poetic documentary which follows the filmmaker's...
3
CM Barbot
NYC
3.6
"American Sample" is a glimpse at the continuing evolution of...
6
Maria Ciampa and Justin Carr
Boston, MA
3.68182
Boston based stand up and improv comedian Maria Ciampa interviews her...
10
Joanie Tobin
Mayfield, Ky.
3.79365
As owner of Mathis Orchard, Coleman Mathis, 75, deals with much more...
6
Dan Stauffer
Philly
3.57143
This video is about the evolution of a panic attack.
0
Titilayo Atoyebi
Philadelphia
3.7
History repeats itself and mistakes are repeated over time. However,...
3
Lia Bodocan
Philadelphia
3.772725
Reptile evolution: beginnings, development and changes over time,...
1
Jordan Hofer
Down House, Kent, England
2.90909
I visited Down House in March 2009 and made a short film as I walked...
1
Shad Clark
San Francisco
3.70588
An antidepressant commercial ends, but the side effects are just...
1
Rima Chaddha Mycynek
Boston
3.714285
Submitted with permission from the WGBH lab as I used to work for '...
1
Robert Rogo
Philadelphia
3.714285
This short is about the evolution of human beings, from the beginning...
0
Jaron Johnston
Philadelphia, PA
3.666665
The evolution of the end times. It is incomplete (haha).
0
Detroit Rebellion
Providence, Rhode Island
3.708335
An Americana music video & poem about music adding meaning to...
0
Apeksha Pathak
Philadelphia
3.625
Evolution of Man went on to evolution of science which has changed...
2
Kristal Williams-Rowley
Boston, MA
3
The Sound of Sunday is an auditory and visual portrait of daily life...
1
J.Stuart Edmondson
San Diego Ca
3.6
Humans go ballistic just for fun in this special supersonic video...
1
Robert Rogo
Philadelphia
3.64706
This short is about the evolution of human beings, from the beginning...
1
-Jennifer Getz
Lost Angeles
3.68
3
Joe Adams
Philadelphia University
3.545455
My short is about the evolution of weaponry, going from infantry to...
0
Paul Lobo Portuges, George Aguilar
Santa Barbara
3.2
Poetry video adapted from Paul Lobo Portuges' poem "Morning North...
1
Da Brotha L.C.
Fort Belvoir
3.666665
See the living conditions that my family and my neighbors live in. I...
0
Steven Hughes, Diane Adams
Kansas City, MO
3.583335
This is a small portion of a video log that I have been creating for...
2
Chris Ell
Philadelphia, PA
3.642855
This short uses Vangelis' Chariots of Fire, which is a copyrighted...
0
Gregory Roman
Boston
2.333335
I Realized a while back, that no one had ever made a finger-snapping...
0
Linda Ann Eknoian
Boston Fire Department Training Academy, Moon Island, Boston, MA
3.68421
Since I am so fascinated with firefighters and what they must endure...
2
Ray Uzwyshyn
Gulf of Mexico, Pensacola, Florida
3.727275
A historical and evolutionary look at the process of augmenting human...
0
Grace Candido
-
3.714285
Nothing can exist without being effected by that which preceded it.
0
Amy Parravano
Cranston, RI
2.666665
what does freedom mean? is there a price to pay?
0
Juan Ortiz
Jersey City, New Jersey
3
Ways to apply lessons learned from Evolution in business management....
1
Rachel Mae Ferretti
Philadelphia
3.583335
0
Lise' Ramos and Jesse Epstein
Bronx, New York
3.235295
A Public Service Announcement trailer which builds awareness on the...
0
Mario Gomez Mayorga
Mexico
2.77778
A message, an awareness call though a continuous morphing of photo...
0
Joe Adams
Philadelphia University
3.4
My short shows the evolution of War going from infantry to machine to...
0
Niklaus Gerber
Forst | Bern | Switzerland
3.4
Last year I made a little walk in a forest close to my place called...
1
Frank Gotay Nathan Hamilton & Micheal Dirnberger
Kansas City Art Institute
3
An exploration of what evolution may look like in the future.
1
video and edit: carlos pareja; music: _ghost
brooklyn, ny
3.625
vignettes of different moments that i paused long enough to capture...
0
LEO CASINO
MIAMI,FL
1.8
Leo traveled to his home to try to find answers for the rash of inner...
1
FluxRostrum & Sarah Seeds
earth
3.42857
The fittest survive. What about the idiots?
0
Tarkan Durum
Brooklyn, NY
3.6
This is about the fleeting moments of happiness so often intermingled...
0
Chris Hastings
Boston
3
0
Maya Lessov
Moscow, Idaho, USA
3.4
This short contains an introduction of self and project, followed by...
0
Mick Cusimano
boston
3
The evoluton of clowns from the middle ages to silent movies to the...
1
Ted Lewis
Milliton, TN
3
I have had the pleasure of photographing and video taping the US Navy...
1
Michael Sean Kaminsky
Brooklyn
3
There is a giant tree outside my window in Brooklyn. I often work...
0
Zak Ray, Sam Luddy, Domenico Eramo
Boston
2
A student tries to see the color in his increasingly black-and-white...
1
Darryl Lewis
North Carolina A&T State University
2
Hopefully the final edit of the video...sorry for the run around
0
Amy Parravano
Cranston,RI
3
Let freedom ring briefly observing what does freedom mean?...
1
Gregory Roman
Boston
0
A man who has a UFO encounter describes his ordeal in great detail....
0

FAQ

Open Call is an invitation for you to produce a video short story based on one of our evolving themes, and share it with the world.

The Lab may even license your short to air on TV in conjunction with an upcoming PBS premiere or as interstitial programming to air on public media stations nationwide.

This is your opportunity to make your voice heard!

The WGBH Lab is here to help and offer advice to get you started. We even provide open content media clips you can use to make your video!


All WGBH Lab Open Calls are inspired by public media content initiatives, topics or programs. This Open Call is inspired by a series of NOVA films on Darwin and evolution that will air this fall and winter on PBS, including:


DARWIN’S DARKEST HOUR: TRAGEDY, TRIUMPH, AND THE BIRTH OF A NEW IDEA
Premieres Tuesday, October 6 at 8 pm ET/PT on PBS

www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/darwin/n


BECOMING HUMAN: UNEARTHING OUR
EARLIEST ANCESTORS
Premieres Tuesdays, November 3, 10, 17 at 8pm ET/PT on PBS
www.pbs.org/nova/becominghuman

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