Green Tea & Your Brain

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This is Your Brain On Tea

As the filmmaker notes, "This is a short animation i created to enter in the Calm-A-Sutra of Tea scholarship competition. The animation was done using final cut pro and motion. the objective of the film was to create something humorous and visually attractive that promoted tea."

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Here's a repost of a Calm-a-Sutra contest entry from a few years ago.

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Drink Tea! 2009 Calm-A-Sutra Entry

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A rather arty Calm-A-Sutra entry from past years.



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What tea can and can't do for you. A humorous entry from the 2009 Calm-A-Sutra contest.

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Private Eye

A Calm-a-Sutra entry from 2009. I daresay you could go so far as to call it hard-boiled.




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Crouching Tea-ger Hidden Dragon

Try to ignore the dreadful play on words. For what it's worth this is currently one of the most watched Calm-A-Sutra entries on YouTube.




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The Journey - A Film about Tea

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2009 Calm-A-Sutra of Tea Winners Announced

Tea Council Awards 2009 Calm-A-Sutra of Tea $15,000 Scholarship to Film and Engineering Students
(from a press release)

The Tea Council of the USA, Inc. announced today that two college freshmen are the winners of the 2009 Calm-A-Sutra of Tea, an annual national scholarship of $15,000 given for the most creative video showing the health benefits of drinking tea. The Tea Council received more than 1,100 entries this year, up 57% from the 700 received for the 2008 competition, which is attributed to the down economy and the increased need for financial aid for college.

Students could feature black, green, white and oolong tea, which contain flavonoids, believed to be health-protective antioxidants that help boost the body’s defenses, and make it part of a healthy lifestyle. The winning submission, “A Cuple of Tea” was produced by aspiring actor Edan Freiberger and engineering student Nicholas Chen, residents of Foster City, CA who attend Stanford and UCLA, respectively. The video is a clever take on a marital drama, with White Tea depicting a proud housewife who must face the harsh realities of the infidelity of her husband, Earl Grey (Black Tea). To view the grand prize winning video and the 2009 Honorable Mentions, look here.

All entries were required to be original one-to-two minute Internet videos and had to contain at least one valid message regarding Tea’s health-related benefits, specifically black, green, white and oolong tea. All video submissions were judged by a panel of Tea Council representatives. Judging was based on the following criteria: health-related message, creativity, and popularity.

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By way of The Voice of Tea blog, here's a rather high-minded Calm-A-Sutra entry.



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A Cuple of Tea

This entry in the 2009 Calm-a-Sutra of Tea Scholarship contest is a frightfully clever piece of work, if I do say so myself. Well worth the two minutes you'll invest in watching it.



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Tea Video Contest & New Issue of The Leaf

Aspiring filmmakers, take heed. The third incarnation of the Tea Council of the USA's Calm-A-Sutra of Tea video contest is now underway. Submissions must be in no later than May 31, 2009. Get the lowdown at the contest site, here.

It's time for another dose of The Leaf, a fine online-only publication that recently rolled out its fifth installment. The focus, once again, is on Chinese tea and tea culture and as always it's worth a look.

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Video: It's Simply Tea-rrific!

Yet another entry from the Calm-A-Sutra tea video contest. Talking dog fans, rejoice.



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Video: Tea Gets the Job Done Right

Continuing with this week's tea video theme, here'a another entry from the Calm-A-Sutra contest.



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Video: Tea Is For Me

Here's another one of the entries from the Calm-A-Sutra 2008 National Scholarship Competition.



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Video: Calm-A-Sutra Contest

Some time back the Tea Council of the USA ponied up a $20,000 scholarship to reward the best video that would educate the public on the health benefits of tea. Of the 700 entries they received, one rose to the top of the heap - Interrogation, a 1:48 bit of cleverness by a Los Angeles film student appropriately named John Ford.

Here's the prize-winning video. For a look at the six Honorable Mentions, click here.




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Tea Council Awards $20,000 Scholarship

(from a press release)

Tea Council Awards 'Calm-A-Sutra of Tea(TM)' $20,000 Scholarship to Maryland Student

The Tea Council of the USA, Inc. recently announced that 29-year old Tara Taylor of Rockville, Maryland is the lucky $20K scholarship recipient and winner of the Calm-A-Sutra of Tea(TM), a nationwide scholarship competition meant to further educate America's young people on the health-related benefits of drinking tea.

The Calm-A-Sutra of Tea was a national call for the most unique and creative way to drink tea, specifically black, green, white and oolong tea, all from the Camellia sinensis plant, explained in a one-to-two minute homemade Internet video that incorporates some aspect of tea's many health-related benefits.

The Tea Council of the USA, Inc. partnered with recording artist and American Idol runner-up Justin Guarini as the official Calm-A-Sutra of Tea spokesperson to help spread the word to young people. All entries were required to be original Internet videos created by the entrant and had to contain at least one valid message regarding Tea's health- related benefits, specifically black, green, white and oolong tea. The Tea Council received nearly 70 creative and unique video submissions.

All video submissions were judged by a panel of Tea Council representatives. The winner, who submitted the most creative yet health focused video, was awarded a check in the amount of $20,000 paid directly to the school or educational institution on the their behalf and an all-expense paid trip to New York City, which includes round-trip airfare and two-night hotel accommodations for the winner and a guest, in the first week of June.

For more information or to view the gallery of all the submissions, click here.

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