Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia in collaboration with Department of Journalism and Mass Communication (DJMC), Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (BBAU) Lucknow, is conducting the sixth edition of Community Radio Video Challenge (CRVC) for all students (of any discipline) below the age of 25 years, as on Dec 31st , 2018. This competition gives students an opportunity to showcase the potential of Community Radios through the art of filmmaking. The theme for CRVC 2018 is “Community Radio for Climate Action”..
Climate change is a real and undeniable threat to our entire civilization. The effects are already visible and will be catastrophic unless we act now. Through education, innovation and adherence to our climate commitments, we can make the necessary changes to protect the planet. These changes also provide huge opportunities to modernize our infrastructure which will create new jobs and promote greater prosperity across the globe.
Community radios have a significant potential for contributing towards “Climate Action”, not only by creating an awareness about the issues affecting the environment but by bringing about a behavioral change among the community to act with urgency to preserve the environment. Be it Swachcha Bharat Mission or Plastic ban, using toilets or planting trees, if the Community does not participate and own the responsibility, then all of the campaigns will only remain slogans. Community Radios, because of their very nature of being a medium of the people, by the people and for the people, are empowered to bring about Social Change towards sustainable development. Preservation of the environment is one of the three pillars of Sustainable Development.
Community Radio can play and has played a very important role in
a. Strengthening Resilience and Adaptive Capacity to Climate related disasters &
b. Building knowledge and Capacity of the community to meet Climate Change
Through choosing this theme for the 6 th CRVC, we wish to bring out true stories of successes and / or fictional stories of how Community Radios can play a role in bringing about UN SDG 13: Climate Action.
Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA) is an Educational Media Centre for promoting media enabled learning for sustainable development, among the Asian Countries, of the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth of Learning (COL), Vancouver, Canada established CEMCA in 1994 as an international agency to promote the meaningful, relevant and appropriate use of educational media to serve the educational and training needs of Commonwealth member states of Asia which are Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore & Sri Lanka. CEMCA has been working to empower local communities to engage in learning for sustainable development through capacity building for operations of Community Radios, and ensuring quality of CR operations in Commonwealth Asia.
Community Radio (CR) is said to be a medium of the people, operated by the people for the people. It has emerged as a low-cost alternative to the mainstream media, capable of penetrating traditionally ‘media-dark’ areas and including remote, disadvantaged or marginalized communities in the processes of democracy and development. In various parts of the world, CR has played a significant role in facilitating the participation of communities in local governance and decision-making, the preservation of local languages and cultures, increased access to better learning opportunities for the underprivileged. The right to express one's thoughts and ideas and to communicate freely with others, affirms the dignity and worth of every member of society, and allows each individual to realize his or her full human potential.
The Community Radio Video Challenge (CRVC) was launched in 2013 as a joint initiative of the Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Its objective was to promote the engagement of Indian youth with community radio (CR), create awareness, and foster an understanding of CR’s importance for the self-expression, learning and development of local communities.
CEMCA has been working to promote the use of CR in learning for sustainable development since 2006. CEMCA has organized over 40 workshops in the past to create awareness about CR, ran a help-desk entitled “CEMCA Community Radio Facilitation Centre” to support new applicants, and served as a clearinghouse for information on CR. CEMCA helps in building capacity of CR stations involving the local community in programme production.
Recognizing CR’s unique ability to encourage open dialogue and local transparency, give a voice to the less privileged, and foster good governance and social inclusion, CEMCA focuses on Community Media in its 2015-2021 six-year plan as a major focus area.
Short films on the mentioned topic are invited from students of any discipline. The acceptable entries for CRVC will be evaluated by a distinguished jury. The winning films will receive awards and the filmmakers will be felicitated at a ceremony being organized by CEMCA in collaboration with DJMC, BBAU at Lucknow on 7th March 2019. In addition to this, the winners will get an opportunity to participate in a 2 days’ workshop on “Documentary Filmmaking” which will be organized by CEMCA in collaboration with DJMC, BBAU Lucknow in their campus on 5th & 6th March 2019.
The competition is open to all students, of any discipline, in any educational institution and are 25 years old or lesser, as on Dec 31 st 2018. At the maximum, 2 entries will be allowed from any educational institution.
Eligible entries will be scored on the basis of the following guidelines:
The outstation participants and the award winners will be invited for the award ceremony at Lucknow and reimbursed round trip 3AC train ticket and provided modest hostel accommodation. All the award winners and 10 participating student filmmakers, on first come first serve basis, will be allowed to join, free of any fee, a two-day Documentary Filmmaking Workshop on 5 th and 6 th March, at DJMC, BBAU, Lucknow. The students interested in joining the workshop shall indicate their option in the entry form.
There are eight awards for the competition as follows:
For details please visit https://crvc.cemca.org
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Community Radio (CR) is said to be a medium by the people, for the people and of the people. It has emerged as a low-cost alternate to the mainstream media in the age of Internet to create opportunity for the marginalized and disadvantaged groups of people in remote parts of the country to participate in the development process. In various parts of the world, CR has played significant role in enabling participation of communities in local governance and decision-making, preserving local languages and cultures, and increasing access to better learning opportunities for the oppressed. The right to express one's thoughts and to communicate freely with others affirms the dignity and worth of each and every member of society, and allows each individual to realize his or her full human potential. As of April 2013, there are 148 operational CR stations, operating under the “Policy Guidelines for setting up Community Radio Stations in India” issued in 2006 by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Since the release of the policy, it is anticipated that India would have 4000-5000 CR stations. Currently there are over 800 applications at various stages of the licensing process. Free speech and freedom of expression are the raison d’être of CR anywhere in the world and they are going well beyond their mandates to do so in India.
The CR Video Challenge (CRVC) is a joint initiative of the Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), New Delhi, to engage the Indian youth in CR and promote understanding and importance of CR as an alternative media for community’s self-expression, learning and development. CEMCA has been working to promote the use of CR in learning for development since 2006. CEMCA has organized over 30 workshops in the past to create awareness about CR, and runs a help-desk entitled “CEMCA Community Radio Facilitation Centre” to support new applicants and serve as a clearing house for information on CR. UNESCO recognizes that the presence of CR is a sign of media pluralism, diversity of content, and the representation of a society’s different groups and interests. CR encourages open dialogue, local transparency and a voice to the voiceless. The UNESCO’s International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) has been promoting the use and establishment of low-cost media, including CR stations for the past several years. In 2011, UNESCO established the Community Media Chair at the University of Hyderabad, India, which is the only UNESCO chair covering the CR sector.
UNESCO proclaimed February 13 as the World Radio Day in 2011. The best videos will receive awards in a function organised by the Apeejay Institute of Mass Communication (AIMC) on the World Radio Day 2014. AIMC is one of the leading media training institutes in the country, which offers Post Graduate Diplomas in Advertising, PR, Event Management, Broadcast Journalism & Production, and Web Journalism. The Institute has been ranked No 1 in the entire Delhi-NCR region in the category of private institutes by the reputed research agency Cfore and Hindustan Times.