Stars to judge £10,000 Heathrow anti-runway campaign film competition – entry deadline 7th June

Date added: 4 June, 2014

Zac Goldsmith had unveiled his star cast to judge a £10,000 anti-Heathrow airport expansion film competition. Presenter Holly Willoughby and Bafta award-winning director Nick Broomfield will join actor Hugh Grant and broadcaster Gyles Brandreth on the panel of judges for the “No Ifs No Buts” competition set up by Zac (MP for Richmond) with anti-expansion group Hacan. The nationwide competition was launched 2 months ago to highlight opposition to the 3rd runway at Heathrow. Entrants have been asked to submit a 2-minute video saying why a 3rd runway should not be built. The short-listed entries will be judged by at a gala night in the Richmond Theatre in front of 800 guests on June 18, with a £10,000 prize. Zac said: “Heathrow expansion is not politically deliverable. The arguments against it are stacking up every week and the opposition is organised and growing ….. A green light for Heathrow expansion is effectively a green light for a vast, foreign-owned and taxpayer-subsidised monopoly on one edge of our great city. It is astonishing that the idea is even in consideration.”

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Presenter Holly Willoughby and Bafta award-winning director Nick Broomfield will join actor Hugh Grant and broadcaster Gyles Brandreth on the panel of judges for t he No Ifs No Buts competition set up by the Richmond MP with anti-expansion group Hacan.

The nationwide competition was launched two months ago to highlight opposition to the third runway at Heathrow. Entrants have been asked to submit a two-minute video saying why a third runway should not be built.

The shortlisted entries will be judged by at a gala night in the Richmond Theatre in front of 800 guests on June 18, with a £10,000 prize.

Mr Goldsmith said: “Heathrow expansion is not politically deliverable. The arguments against it are stacking up every week and the opposition is organised and growing.

“As if all the other arguments aren’t strong enough, Heathrow itself has finally admitted it cannot cope with the congestion of a third runway without adding a whole new tax on passengers.

“We have a great panel and lots of entrants. I hope there will be some powerful contributions…

“A green light for Heathrow expansion is effectively a green light for a vast, foreign-owned and taxpayer-subsidised monopoly on one edge of our great city. It is astonishing that the idea is even in consideration.”

Richmond Theatre, June 18. Email zac@zacgoldsmith.com to book a seat.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/stars-to-judge-10000-airport-campaign-films-9471770.html

‘NO IFS; NO BUTS’

Opposed to a Third Runway at Heathrow? Enter our Video Competition!

The deadline is 7th June.

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Zac Goldsmith and HACAN launch short film contest over Heathrow 3rd runway plan

24 March 2014

Tory MP for Richmond Park and North Kingston, and environmental campaigner, Zac Goldsmith has launched a film competition (with HACAN) to highlight opposition to a 3rd Heathrow runway – with £10,000 as the first prize. In an escalation of the anti-expansion campaign at Heathrow, Zac Goldsmith has also recruited celebrities to the cause with actor Hugh Grant and former Tory MP Giles Brandreth among the competition judges. Entrants to the competition will need to submit a short film (under 2 minutes) to highlight opposition to the runway. Short-listed entries will be judged by the panel at a gala evening of 800 guests at the Richmond Theatre on 18th June with the prize money provided by Zac. The competition is called “No Ifs, No Buts”, recalling David Cameron’s infamous pre-election pledge made in 2009 to an audience in Richmond not to allow a 3rd runway to be built at Heathrow. The competition is looking for powerful messages that will be taken up on social and conventional media, and ram home the message that Heathrow expansion is not only the wrong solution for our economy, it is politically undeliverable. The closing date for video entries is 1st June [now 7th June]. .

On Twitter at @videoheathrow

Details at https://www.airportwatch.org.uk/?p=20592

The closing date for video entries is 7th June.

More details about the competition can be found at www.no-ifs-no-buts.com

Amateur or professional, it’s your chance to be creative! Submit a video………anything up to 2 minutes long to show why Heathrow expansion is the wrong answer. The best 10 entries will be screened at the Richmond theatre in June in front of celebrity judges.

Actual text from Conservative election leaflet for the May 2010 election. Full leaflet at http://www.electionleaflets.org/leaflets/full/b58fa8c95aec5d810bfe2ebb16bcbf91/ .

Stars to judge £10,000 Heathrow anti-runway campaign film competition – entry deadline 7th June

Stars to judge £10,000 airport campaign films

‘NO IFS; NO BUTS’

Zac Goldsmith and HACAN launch short film contest over Heathrow 3rd runway plan

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