Global Youth Video Competition on Climate Change

Photo from UNFCCC

Deadline : August 17, 2015 

Open to: young people between 18 and 30 years old

Think about a project or campaign you are involved in to combat climate change, an action which convinced your parents, school or college to take climate action, a lobbying of your elected members of parliament or your city leaders. Whatever is making a difference, turn it into a snappy concise video and join the competition. Some key questions to answer are:

• Why did you choose to engage in this climate action?
• What were some of the key things that took place?
• What were some of the successes?
• Where did these successes occur (locally, nationally or internationally)?
• How can youth from similar countries replicate the activities that have been implemented?

Eligibility:

This content is open for people between 18 and 30 year old. Tvebiomovies is looking for creative inspirational stories about your action on climate change. The winning entries being judged by our panel will take into account the following criteria:

• Content: clearness and effectiveness of the video in documenting a story about climate change, promoting action and/or offering new solutions;
• Innovation, originality, and impact: telling a climate story in a fresh and unusual way, appealing to a broad and diverse audience and encouraging further thought and action;
• Technical expertise: quality of camera and audio work, effectiveness of editing and strength of script.

Prizes:

• Round trip to COP21/CMP11 in Paris, France from 30 November to 11 December 2015 (including accommodation and other expenses);
• Position as a youth reporter for COP21/CMP11, responsible for assisting UNFCCC Newsroom team with videos, articles and social media posts.

There will be two winners:

• One winner will be chosen based on the most number of views on tve‘s You Tube channel during the voting period;
• The other winner will be selected by members of the UNFCCC Secretariat, UNDP-SGP and others.

How to Apply?

• Make a three minute film about the action you are involved in to combat climate change;
• Complete your entry using online form;
• The videos may be recorded in any language, but English subtitles must be provided;
• Films which meet the criteria will be uploaded to tve’s You Tube channel and a shortlist of entries will be viewed by the judging panel.

WHAT'S POSSIBLE: The U.N. Climate Summit Film

I absolutely agree. This is biggest crises we have ever faced, but we also have the best opportunity to solve it. We have all the technology we need to change the world, we need to act now.

PS. I love Morgan Freeman (he did the narration on the video).

AGAM: Climate Change Awareness via Storytelling

The term 'climate change' has been in use for so long now that it has already lost some of its luster. It has been dissected, rearranged, and turned inside and out. We start discussing the rudiments of climate change as early as grade school, yet there is still copious amounts of work that needs to be done. Constantly updating ourselves about its evolution and impacts is crucial.

The public needs a constant reminder about the relevance and urgency of climate change---adaptation and mitigation. But sometimes in the midst of all its technicalities, we get lost and forget that at the end of it all, human lives are affected and the impact is permanent.

Here comes in the need to try various ways of instigating public awareness of an important issue such as climate change. 

For Renato Redentor "Red" Constantino, executive director of the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities and Manila Bulletin's Business Agenda section editor Regina Abuyuan, story telling is one of those ways. They came up with "Agam", a collection of 26 narratives that describe climate change using photos shot by Jose Enrique Soriano and interweaving them with written pieces based on those very pictures.

Photo from ejeepney.org

 "Agam" was first launched last  June 24 in Quezon City and will be made available in major bookstores. Four other launches will be initiated in Tacloban, and internationally: in California, New York, and Washington DC. 

Twenty four different writers were given a photo to write about creatively. The outcomes were an array of unique and heartfelt collection of fiction,non-fiction, and poems in various languages such as Sinama, Maguindanao, Bicolano, Cebuano, Tagalog, Ilocano, Waray and English.

Some of the wordsmiths included poet Padmapani L. Perez; Cultural Center of the Philippines Intertextual Division Director Hermie Beltran; Carlos Palanca awardee and distinguished anthropologist Arnold Molina Azurin; former PAGASA Director Leoncio Alhambra Amadore; 2003 Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and the Creative Communication Arts winner Sheila S. Coronel; and University of the Philippines-Diliman Chancellor Dr. Michael Tan.

The proceeds from the book will go to Re-Charge Tacloban.