ASIAN YOUTH ENTREPRENEURS NETWORK

DOCUMENTARY FILM COMPETITION

asian youth entrepreneurs network

a youth entreprenuership programme by the katchi group sdn bhd

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Objective Theme Specific Competition Guidelines Timeline Elimination Process Submission Deliberation Jury Prize

OBJECTIVE This film competition was designed to guide youths in developing a production house environment and concept within their university, following the Junior Enterprise model. Through this, we intend to create a next generation of filmmakers who are able to run a business-centric production house, taking into consideration budget, human resources, marketing, the technical aspects as well as the commercial aspects. The

ULTIMATE

objective

is

to

make

students

understand “commercial value” and what it takes to make a successful film production.

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THEME: MY SUSTAINABLE COUNTRY The students are to produce a documentary film based on the theme of MY SUSTAINABLE COUNTRY. The idea behind this theme is to get students to showcase any grassroots positive sustainable action in their community and the resulting impact in their country. This includes how the community is embracing sustainability, the levels of sustainability people are capable of creating and how they manage to achieve these. The documentary should bring forth this key message from different people and industries, across all ages and without borders.

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SPECIFIC COMPETITION GUIDELINES ELIGIBILITY

PARTICIPATION GUIDELINES

This competition is open to student in Faculties with

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Form a team of twelve (12) members comprising

Filmmaking courses (age limit of thirty (30) years old)

ten (10) active members and two (2) in reserve.

in sixteen (16) countries:

The team members should include a Producer, Director, Script Writer/ Researcher, Director of

The 10 ASEAN countries (Brunei Darusalam, Cambodia,

Photography,

Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, The Philippines,

Video) and etc. A team leader must be chosen

Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam), as well as China, Korea,

as well (they can occupy any position in the

Japan, Pakistan, Taiwan, and Oman.

production team).

REGISTRATION PERIOD

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Soundman,

Editor

(Sound

and

All team members are required to register on AYEN website as member. The registration fee is USD 10 per member. This is necessary as scheduling and information will be disseminated via your contact information and posted online. Additionally the AYEN website offers numerous other services. Our website is located here: http://ayen.asia

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Once registered and joined, competition updates and schedules will be sent to each team member. page 3

MENTORING All the participating teams will be guided by a group of Mentors, who are professional filmmakers. The mentoring sessions will be on: 1.

Development, research, treatment / script

2.

Pre-production - Interview skills, preparing for production

3.

Production - Technical (knowledge of equipment, shooting skills, etc)

4. Post Production - Visual editing, music 5.

Distribution & marketing: What are the platforms and channels?

One submitted documentary film will be selected to represent the country to compete on Asian level.

Further information at

Questions can be directed to

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TIMELINE REGISTRATION PERIOD:

*Timeline is subject to change

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ELIMINATION PROCESS The competition will be held in two phases. The first phase involves the students producing a treatment for the documentary. This is the preproduction stage. An elimination round will take place, with a panel of judges evaluating the treatments and eliminating teams.

Only

shortlisted

documentary

films

will

proceed to the production stage. The criteria for selection of teams are based on the treatment of each documentary film. The next round will involve the shortlisted teams filming the documentary. This is the production stage. Upon completion of filming, the teams will start postproduction work: editing, sound mixing, etc. This is the post-production stage. The completed films will be submitted to a panel of judges for evaluation. This panel will further shortlist several films for the final stage. At the final stage, the panel of judges will select the winner based on a final presentation to the judges. Criteria for this presentation will be provided once the competition starts. It may be necessary for teams to travel to Malaysia for the final judging. The documentary film should be produced within fourteen (14) months.

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JURY The

competition

PRIZE will

be

judge

by

a

group

of

professionals from the Asian region and internationally

The best documentary on the Asian level will receive USD 10,000* seed fund to start a Junior Enterprise.

(Europe and USA). The best documentary in Asian level will be screened in public and submitted to international film festivals in the documentary film category, upon decision by the jury. By participating to this competition, the students grant AYEN all rights to use the film. The copyrights for the documentary films will be owned by the respective teams. *Terms and Conditions apply

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NOTES

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