The Green Screen En­vi­ron­men­tal Film Fes­ti­val has an­nounced its win­ners of the 2024 Very Short Shorts com­pe­ti­tion.

In a state­ment, it said un­der this year’s theme, CON­NECT, it re­ceived many "in­cred­i­ble sub­mis­sions, ex­plor­ing the con­nec­tions be­tween our chang­ing cli­mate and var­i­ous as­pects of hu­man lives and liveli­hoods. "Sub­mis­sions il­lus­trat­ed these im­por­tant con­nec­tions and il­lu­mi­nat­ed the way that art can be mean­ing­ful­ly har­nessed to dri­ve im­pact­ful change in our en­vi­ron­ment and our world."

Green Screen said the Over­all Ju­ry Award was pre­sent­ed to Cross­roads by Ro­mario Patrice.

"This minute-long doc­u­men­tary is ded­i­cat­ed to ex­am­in­ing cli­mate change and its im­pact on hu­man­i­ty in the form of vi­su­al po­et­ry. This award is pre­sent­ed by Green Screen to Patrice in the amount of $12,000."

The Youth Ju­ror’s Award (for film­mak­ers aged 10-25) was pre­sent­ed to Con­nect Us by Joseph Carl­ton Fran­cis­co Brown and Johnette Ann Brown. It ex­plained that Con­nect Us is a nar­ra­tive com­e­dy that fol­lows pro­tag­o­nist Jane and her friends, who are the cul­prits of ex­cess car­bon emis­sions. It added that things be­gin to change when Jane ex­pe­ri­ences a pe­cu­liar in­ter­ac­tion. The team re­ceived $5,000.

Green Screen said the Peo­ple’s Choice Award was giv­en to the team of Joseph and Johnette Brown for Con­nect Us.

The award was pre­sent­ed by the Na­tion­al Lot­ter­ies Con­trol Board (NL­CB) in the amount of $3,000.

The re­lease said the Best Trinidad and To­ba­go film was pre­sent­ed to the short ex­per­i­men­tal Siren cre­at­ed by the film­mak­ing duo of Jer­el Ram­sey and Re­nal­do Mata­moro. Green Screen said it was based in a for­est; a lone hik­er is drawn in­to an oth­er­world­ly ex­pe­ri­ence deep with­in its con­fines. "Be­wil­dered by an in­ex­plic­a­ble sound, he finds him­self at the edge of a tran­quil lake, where the ap­pear­ance of a mer­maid from the depths beck­ons him in­to an aquat­ic odyssey. As he is trans­port­ed through a sur­re­al un­der­wa­ter world, the bound­aries be­tween re­al­i­ty and fan­ta­sy blur," said the film fes­ti­val.

The 2024 pre­sen­ta­tion of Green Screen was made pos­si­ble through the sup­port of Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC), Re­pub­lic Bank Lim­it­ed, Pa­tron the Na­tion­al Lot­ter­ies Con­trol Board (NL­CB) and Part­ners Free­town Col­lec­tive and the Cana­di­an High Com­mis­sion (Port-of-Spain).