Film Competition - The EAC I Deserve

It's Our Time!

Background

The EAC celebrated its 20th anniversary on November 30, 2019. To mark this milestone, we have lauched a year-long citizens’ engagement campaign dubbed The EAC I Deserve.

As we focus on achieving new milestones as set out in EAC vision 2035, the life in East Africa in the past 20 years has changed tremendously through our joint efforts, creating more employment opportunities for the youth and improving the quality of life for our citizens

Theme

Real life stories about the benefits EAC has had on citizens’ lives;
Narrate challenges EAC citizens are facing that we can jointly address;
Capture your aspirations of the future EAC you want

Genre

Entrants may use any genre to produce the video or animation, the length has to be between 30 and 59 seconds.

Eligibility

1. Youth between the age of 18 to 35 years
2. An East African Citizen
3. Individual or group submission are allowed

Winning Criteria

Popularity

Quality

Relevance

Creativity

Persuasiveness

Entertainment Value

Clarity

Originality

Advancement of the integration agenda

Evaluation, Selection and Notification to Winners

A team of digital experts will review the submissions. Digital media monitoring tools will be used for tracing and analysinng them and winners will be notified via email in March 2020.

Submission Process

Citizens are free to produce and submit as many videos or animations as they wish.
The videos and animations need to be uploaded on social media channels of the entrants; Facebook, YouTube, Twitter or Instagram Accounts to be considered for awards.
The entrants need to include #theEACiDeserve in all their postings and communication on digital media.
The hashtag will be used to trace the submissions.
The entrants will later need to visit www.theeacideserve.com and upload their videos. Prepare a short descriptive text of maximum 1,000 characters (preferably in English or Kiswahili) to be uploaded alongside the video/animation.
Video files MUST match the video title on the entry form. We strongly suggest listing the lead youth’s LAST name as part of the video file name so it can be more easily linked to the entry form and video title e.g. James-my-future-my-choice.mov
By submitting the videos and animations the entrants give the right and consent to EAC to republish the materials to their digital channels.
The web portal will be open for uploading the videos and animations from 1st to 15th November 2019. Submission Deadline is 15.11.2019, 23.55 hours.

Competition Awards

1st Prize

USD 5,000

2nd Prize

USD 3,000

3rd Prize

USD 2,000

30 Other Winners

USD 500 Each

Copyrights

Copyrights must be honoured. It’s the law! The copyright of the materials submitted for this competition remains with respective entrants. However, the entrants grant the EAC and Partner States the right to use the submitted materials in the 20 years’ anniversary communication crediting the copyright owners.

By submitting an entry, all entrants confirm that they have full rights to the submissions, and entries do not violate any prior copyright interests of any person or institution