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The Film Festival was organized by the society in 1983 to honor the outstanding amateur (non-commercial) and professional (commercial) films produced in the preceding five years that portray important concepts in animal behavior research and education.

The Film Festival promotes the Animal Behavior Society's goals of research, teaching, and conservation at the university and college level.

See the current film catalog for more information

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Animal Behavior Society Film Festival

45th Annual meeting of the Animal Behavior Society

Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort, Utah

16-20 August 2008

Film Festival Categories

NON-COMMERCIAL: Made by an individual or persons largely associated with animal behavior from a teaching, research, and/or applied perspective. The assistance of professional photographers or a university media/photography department is allowed, but the film must be made primarily for educational/research purposes, and not with the major goal of grossing an income for the individual or the professional photographers. Typically, it is the individual who initiates the film’s production.

COMMERCIAL: Made by professional photographers – filmmakers with the express purpose of grossing a new profit. The film is promoted through extensive advertising and may be shown on national television as part of an ongoing series (example: National Geographic serials, BBC’s “Wildlife on One” films). Various scientists may or may not be used as consulting experts, but typically the scientist is not the individual initiating production of the film.

Please forward entries (postmarked by 02 June 2008) to:

Marianne Engle,
Muskingum College,
163 Stormont St,
New Concord, OH 43762

e-mail: mengle@muskingum.edu phone: 740-826-8353

Results of the ABS Film Festival

2007 Jack Ward Memorial Film Competition (Non-Commercial Films)
2007 ABS Film Award for Best Commercial Film

Film Catalog