The industry's most prestigious Senao Hometown Investigation Documentary Competition, which is also the only all-age documentary competition in the country, has entered its 16th year . Today (12/14), a joint award ceremony was held in conjunction with the mobile direct-form short film competition, and invited Six major mobile phone brands jointly promote national video creation, jointly promote short film production courses, and cultivate the national habit of recording life with technology. The hometown documentary competition was themed " Launching a New Horizon " to encourage all people to express their own opinions and depict the beauty of reality. More than 20 awards were awarded at the scene, and the biggest prize was the Environmental Ecology Special Award directed by Liao Jingyao . Winning "Frog Removal", he won a high bonus of 300,000 yuan in one fell swoop .
The wave of short video and music is booming. Nearly a thousand straight short films are competing for the 200,000 grand prize.
The Senao Foundation launched Taiwan's first mobile direct-form short film competition in 2020 , with the intention of setting off a second wave of video movements. This year , the event was expanded for the first time. In addition to adding themed awards for food, travel, pets, and life, it also proposed Awards that exceed the existing bonus specifications - the maximum prize is 200,000 , and there are special awards for children and the elderly. At the same time, Samsung , ASUS , OPPO , SONY , HTC , and vivo are invited to jointly sponsor the awards, and work with brand professional lecturers to go deep into Taiwan The community offers quick short film production courses to encourage all ages to experience the fun of filmmaking. As a result, nearly 1,000 short films were submitted. The competition was fierce, and the short film " Pose " by young director Li Peilin was finally won . Among them, Zhu Wenhui, the producer of PTV's "Who's Coming to Dinner" who serves as the chairman of the jury, mentioned: " It's rare to see a mobile short film competition that provides such a large prize of 200,000 yuan , so that ordinary people can participate as long as they have a mobile phone, and people from the age of seven to From age to seventy, the accumulation of these short films over the years is quite valuable. "
The Golden Horse-level jury carefully selected "The Story of Frog" to win the 300,000 Environmental Ecological Special Award
International curator You Huizhen serves as the jury chairperson of this documentary competition. She pointed out that the diverse forms of documentaries can be seen in the choice of subject matter and expression techniques. The most amazing thing is that whether it is a very personal, inner subject, or even Very macro-level environmental and historical issues are in full bloom in the works of this competition. The jury also included Golden Horse-level directors Yang Lizhou, Cai Chonglong, Hong Chunxiu and Ma Yue Bihou. It took three months to select 29 shortlisted masterpieces from hundreds of works. The competition in the general category was the most fierce, and in the end Liao Jingyao was selected. "Frog", which took the director three years to shoot, won the "Special Environmental and Ecological Award", the biggest award worth RMB 300,000 . The film records the process of removing alien species in Taiwan. Because spotted-legged tree frogs and cane toads have rapidly multiplied and spread in Taiwan, posing a threat to the survival of Taiwan's native species, humans have begun a series of trapping, research, dissection and other frog removal operations. , the process brought full visual impact. The director chose to present it in black and white to reduce the audience's sense of oppression when watching the anatomy scenes, and at the same time let the public see the issue of alien species and the contradictions and conflicts between species. It has also previously won the New Taipei City Documentary Award. and the Zeppelin Environmental Documentation Award.
"Home in the Heart" and " Our Mountain and Summer Life ", which show true friendship with nature since childhood, won awards
This year, the Senao Foundation visited primary and secondary schools across Taiwan and held 55 campus touring film festivals, inviting award-winning teams of young people and children to share their filming experiences, inspiring many schoolchildren to start learning to record their hometowns, thus attracting many works from a childlike perspective, which contributed to the competition. A new spark. The "Hometown Visit Recommendation Award" was specially established for children and young people. The children of Shulin Elementary School in Tainan took home the 150,000 bonus for the short documentary "Home in the Heart". The story unfolded from the perspective of school children. Although they were born in a poor farm family, the images It reveals the true feelings between him and his father, and also pours out his deep love and connection with the land. "Our Mountain Summer Life", which won the best film award in the children's category, showed another side of the children of Beicheng Elementary School in Yilan County, recording their last summer vacation before entering junior high school, spending time with their classmates in their father's orchard on Lishan Mountain Have a happy and comfortable day.
The Senao Technology Cultural and Educational Foundation has long advocated video education. The hometown exploration documentary competition has also become a long-standing all-age short film competition. This year, it is promoted through multiple media and cooperates with Chunghwa Telecom MOD , Aboriginal TV, Public Television, and Liudu Public TV channels, campus tours, Youtube and other means will spread the award-winning works and the concept of the competition wider and further, hoping to arouse the spirit of all people to love the land and care for their homeland, get up and start recording, and become a force for social change in Taiwan!
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Ø 2024 Mobile Direct Short Film Competition and Hometown Investigation Documentary Winning Works: https://www.youtube.com/TheSENAOORG
Ø Senao Technology Cultural and Educational Foundation Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/senaoorg/
Ø Senao Life Journal: https://online.senao.com.tw/Article