Deadline: 27 June 2014
Open to: young people up to 25 years old
Awards: $1,000 and an invitation (travel and accommodations expenses paid) to attend the Awards Ceremony in New York City
Description
The Call for Entries of the PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival 2014 has recently been opened and young video-makers around the world are invited to submit their works. The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) again invite the world’s youth to submit original and creative videos focusing on PLURAL+ themes: migration, diversity and social inclusion.
Last year, PLURAL+ received a record-breaking 254 videos from 71 countries and 26 videos were selected as winning. Young people are invited to submit short videos of five minutes maximum in length that address key challenges related to migrant integration, inclusiveness, identity, diversity, human rights and social cohesiveness, both at local and global levels. People appearing in the submitted video do not have to be youth. However the videos must reflect the youth’s opinions or reflections about migration, diversity and social inclusion.
Eligibility
- Entrants to PLURAL+ must be youth between the ages of 9-25.
- The Entrant is the one person responsible for submitting the video.
- People appearing in the video do not have to be youth. However the videos must reflect the youth’s opinions or reflections about migration, diversity and social inclusion.
- Multiple youth may work together to make one video, as long as all members of the group are between the ages of 9-25.
- Other people involved in the making of the video (e.g. educators, teachers, instructors, etc.) might be over 25 as long as their creative role is minimal (group coordination, technical support, renting equipment, etc.)
- If multiple youth work together on one video then the video will be judged in the age category of the eldest youth.
- Immediate family members (siblings, children and grandchildren) of jurors for the PLURAL+ Video Festival are not eligible to enter the Video Festival.
Awards
The PLURAL+ International Jury will choose three videos (one for each age group) and award them with the PLURAL+ International Jury Award. These awardees will receive $ 1,000 each as well as an invitation (travel and accommodations expenses paid) to attend the PLURAL+ Awards Ceremony held at the Paley Center for Media on December 2014 in New York City.
Below are some of the PLURAL+ 2013 Partners awards:
- The Global Film Initiative will choose two videos and award them with cash prizes of $5,000.
- AFS will choose one video and award it with a cash prize of $500.
- Belgrade Media Education Center will choose 1 video and award it with an invitation to participate at the Balkan Plus International Film Festival.
- CHINH India will choose 1 video and award it with an Award and an internship at Chinh Early Education Web Channel.
- COPEAM will choose, among the 18-25 age category, one video and award it by giving the winner the possibility to participate at COPEAM’s annual Conference.
- Doha Center for Media Freedom will choose two videos and award each with an invitation for one person to Qatar for a special video presentation.
- The Gulen Institute will choose 2 videos and award each with a Kindle Fire.
- Humanity Without Borders Foundation will choose three videos and award each with a trophy and a cash prize. The selected videos will also be featured on the Foundation’s website.
- Mediabus will award one video with the PLURAL+ 2013 MEDIABUS Award and a plaque.
- MTV Exit will choose 1 video and award it with the MTV Exit prize , including being hosted on www.mtvexit.org for one month, promotion of the video on MTV Exit’s social media platforms (Twitter, Facebook, Google +, and Instagram), and an MTV EXIT gift bag filled with signed merchandise by MTV EXIT artists.
- NEXOS Alliance will choose 1 video and award it with $500 and the NEXOS TV Series Collection.
- TAL will choose one video from Latin America and award it with $500.
- The Turkish Cultural Center of New York will choose 1 video for thePLURAL+ 2013 Turkish Cultural Center Friendship Award and award it with $500 and a plaque.
- United Nations TV will award 1 video with a Digital Video Camera.
- Universitat Jaume I will choose 1 video and award it with a plaque, a showcase with IUDESP networks and a selection of books concerning peace and intercultural understanding.
Application
The deadline for application is 27 June 2014.
All entries must include a fully completed and signed entry form, including co-signature by a parent, guardian, teacher or responsible adult if the entrant is a minor in his/her country of residence. If submitting a DVD, each package must contain the fully completed entry form, the DVD of the video, all DVDs must have the name of the entrant and the English title of the video printed on top of the DVD in permanent marker. The videos must be sent to:
PLURAL+
United Nations – Alliance of Civilizations
Chrysler Building
405 Lexington Ave, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10174 USA
If submitting through a file hosting website, participants should send an email to plural@unaoc.org. In the subject line write PLURAL+ 2014 VIDEO ENTRY, and the text mail should include title of the videos, name of the authors, address/link for download of the video and contact email.
For further information, please visit the official website.
