KALEIDOSCOPE Real World Video Challenge

The KALEIDOSCOPE REAL WORLD VIDEO CHALLENGE is an exciting new national online video contest organized by the Provincial/Regional Councils across Canada, with the support of CIDA. This initiative aims to sensitize and engage young Canadians to global development issues, and to support them in becoming responsible and engaged global citizens.

Building on the popularity of video-sharing, KALEIDOSCOPE is an open invitation to Canadian youth (8-12 and 13-18 years of age) to produce a short video (no more than 5 minutes) about what they think is the most important global issue, and what we should do about it.

To participate, youth must complete a KALEIDOSCOPE Submission and Consent Form, shoot their video, upload it to any sharing platform of choice (YouTube, MySpace, Rethos, Facebook or others), and register their submission at http://www.videochallenge.ca/, no later than 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2008. 

Submissions will be judged provincially and regionally to select one finalist from each age group (8-12 and 13-18 years of age) from each Council. Finalists will receive a video camera or $1000 cash prize at a public event organized by each the Council. 

A national winner of each age category will be selected from the 14 finalists through a combination of on-line voting, and review by a national panel.  National winners will be recognized at a ceremony in Ottawa in May 2008.

We hope you will encourage your youth constituents to participate, and invite you to visit the contest website: http://www.videochallenge.ca/ for more information.