The Columbine Award Competition is open to men and women. All films, video tapes, DVDs, film scores & screenplays, stageplays, radio scripts & tapes, TV pilot & MOW scripts, librettos & short stories for this contest category should promote & reflect non-violent conflict resolution, or alternatives to violence, or show why a violent resolution to conflict is counter-productive & inhumane.

Submitted material should not contain gratuitous violence. We are not seeking only non-violent entries, but we do wish to see submissions in this category which show the viewer or reader either alternatives to resolving a conflict violently, or show us how violent conflict resolution (such as in Northern Ireland, Gulf war, Viet Nam, WWI & II, Israel/Palestine, Columbine high school, apartheid, murder, rape, gang wars, drug wars, race relations, abuse in families, etc.) usually doesn't solve the perceived conflict.

The Columbine category is not about films & written works with no violence in them; it's for films & written works which are about finding or attempting to find alternatives to violent conflict resolution. Previous Columbine winners have won for films & scripts that portrayed the violence of Iraq, the Gulf War, the Troubles in Northern Ireland, apartheid in South Africa, World War I atrocities, Viet Nam, Nazis living in Brazil, etc. None were able to show alternatives, but all showed why violence used to solve conflicts is not effective & is, in fact, counter-productive & inhumane.

Moondance does not try to censure violent films & written works, but we do wish to present & encourage alternatives to violence, yet still be viable, popular, and financially successful films & TV shows.

Click here for the Columbine Award Application