Words of Wisdom Contest

The Words of Wisdom Contest was a brickfilming contest hosted by Joshua Leasure in 2003. The aim of the contest was to make a brickfilm depicting a well known piece of advice. It was the third official Brickfilms.com contest and was the first to be organised by Leasure, who purchased the website from Jason Rowoldt in 2003. It was preceded by the Historical Fiction Contest and followed by the A Peculiar Event Contest.

History
After purchasing Brickfilms.com from Jason Rowoldt in June 2003, Joshua Leasure worked on an overhaul of the website and launched the new-look Brickfilms on August 4th. Ten days later on August 14th, he announced the first official contest on the new site, the Words of Wisdom Contest. This contest was about creating a brickfilm depicting a famous wise proverb or quote in no longer than two minutes, with a suggested length of around one minute. Leasure mentioned that the theme was partially inspired by the films of Ben Brenn, particularly Ninja Thief, and that the short time limit was inspired by the relative success of the Informal Chicken Dance Contest, which received 14 entries versus the 10 and 12 entries received by the Classical Movie Contest and Historical Fiction Contest, respectively.

The contest's original deadline was Septemeber 15th 2003, but a server crash on the morning of that day led to a number of submissions not being successfully received. To allow these entrants time to resubmit, the deadline was pushed back one day to September 16th. The Words of Wisdom Contest received 33 entries; a remarkable increase over the previous contests held by the site.

Winners
Listed here are the top three films in each category.