Short Video Contest: “RISE ASEAN Countering The Infodemic”

Under "Right Information Saves and Improves ASEAN (RISE ASEAN) Project", Myanmar will organize a short video contest (national level). Due to social media fake news and misinformation on COVID-19 global pandemic, the ASEAN Community experience public panic followed by negative impact in health, education, economic, social and tourism development sectors.

With the theme, “RISE ASEAN Countering The Infodemic”, the RISE ASEAN short video contest invites youths who are social media friendly so that they could counter fake news more effectively while promoting more public awareness.The entries are invited for this short video contest now and the rule for the participant age group is set 18 to 25 years old. The participants will submit scripts and story boards of the contest short videos along with their CV forms between 3rd week of June and last week of August 2022 to the Contest Organizing Committee of Myanma Radio and Television.

The participated short video promo will be 1 minute including opening and ending titles. The award winners will be announced in October this year and 1.5 million kyats will be awarded for the 1st prize, 1 million kyats for the 2nd prize and 800,000 kyats for the 3rd prize. The award winning short videos will be broadcast on TV channels and they will be posted on websites and social media among the ASEAN Member States. 

For more information, the youths who are interested in the contest can contact the mentioned phone number and e-mail address.