“Graffiti City Tales” video competition

The Educational Television of Ministry of Education and ERT World launch an international youth video competition under the title “Graffiti City Tales”. They invite young people of all over the world to participate.

Read your city: the walls tell their own stories

Walk through the streets. Look around you. Pay attention. Lean on the walls. Gaze at the train surfaces, the street signs, the abandoned cars … Read their stories. Look at their paintings and colors. Pay attention to the solitary words and phrases, to their letters. Observe even their mess. Discover their hidden messages. Tell what they tell. Imagine even a different city and tell through a video a story about your city, about you.

Why graffiti?

Nowadays graffiti is an international form of art, which uses the public space to express itself. With bold images, slogans, and symbols it is a forum of unrestrained communication and social criticism. This creative art challenges, in a sense, the public and the individual to think, interpret and fit it into her/his private world.

This video competition is an opportunity for young people to express their views on graffiti, to narrate their personal perception and experience of life in the city; how they live in their towns, how they communicate via graffiti, how they express themselves,  what graffiti means about their creativity, their inventiveness, about their bonding, expression, and participation in the public dialogue on social issues, politics, and art.

Participation conditions

• Individuals or groups (up to 3 people) between 13 to 25 years of age are invited to submit only one video, no longer than 3 minutes.
• There will be two age categories, one between 13 to 18, and one between 19 to 25.
• All submissions will be made online via the platform  http://icreate.minedu.gov.gr,  where all participants will fill an entry form and will be given further instructions.
• All participants must submit an English version of their video to the organizers, although voice or written commentary is not obligatory.
• They can use a digital video camera or a mobile telephone as well as music or photos copyright free.
• Participants under the age of 16 must submit a permission from their parents or guardians.
• All participants must have the consent of all persons appeared in their videos.
• The organizers reserve the right to use part of the videos for publication purproses.

Competition Deadlines: 1 January 2011 to 31 of March 2011.

Evaluation

It will be made by the internet community by voting once in a scale of 1 to 5 for maximum 5 videos. Evaluation Deadlines: 1 April 2011 to 30 April 2011

Awards

Two videos (each of one age group) will be selected, which will gain a laptop with multimedia potential  (in a ceremony night in Athens) as well as their entry in the Camera Zizanio young video festival (and other festivals as well). Four more videos (two of one age group) will  gain a praise. An award  ceremony will be organized in Athens.

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