Category: CID Video Competition

CID’s third video competition is over. As a reminder, students were asked to create 90-120 second videos about listening, as listening is how intercultural dialogue starts. Posts have appeared over the past weeks describing each of the top videos, but here is a single list with links to all of them.

Submissions came in from students studying the USA, Turkey, the UK, Taiwan, and India, with some of these being international students originally from Ecuador, Jamaica, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and Guinea. All four of the winners are themselves multicultural, and therefore understand the need for, and practice, intercultural dialogue in their own daily lives.

The winners were:

1st prize: Israel Arcos, from Ecuador, who was studying Mathematics at Hostos Community College at the time he submitted the video, now enrolled in Computer Science at Hunter College for his Bachelor’s degree.

2nd prize: Shanoy Coombs, from Jamaica, who is studying Intercultural Communication and International Development at the University of Sheffield in the UK for her Master’s degree.

3rd prize: Veronica Gutierrez, who grew up in Mexico and is now in the US, is studying Global Public Health at Concordia University, Texas, for her Bachelor’s degree.

Award of excellence: Vanessa Milqueya Ventura Alvarez, from the Dominican Republic, who is studying Business Management at Hostos Community College in New York, pursuing her Associate’s degree.

My thanks to all the competitors, who took the time to really think about the topic, even during a pandemic. Thanks to colleagues around the world, who helped spread the word about the competition. Thanks to the judges of the competition, professionals who made time to review student videos, again even during a pandemic (and special thanks to Mary Schaffer, on the CID Advisory Board, who not only served herself but recruited most of the other judges.) Thanks to Heather Birks, for initially suggesting the idea of a video competition, for arranging funding for the award to be provided by the Broadcast Education Association (BEA), for providing server space for the videos, and for providing most of the technical support (and to JD Boyle, at BEA, for additional technical support). The competition would have been impossible without all of the work of all these people. And this year, thanks to Lexington Books, for giving the top 3 award winners a copy of Elizabeth Parks’ book, The Ethics of Listening: Creating Space for Sustainable Dialogue.

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Director
Center for Intercultural Dialogue

CID’s third video competition is now over, and the judges have reviewed all the videos. As a reminder, the instructions were to show that listening is how intercultural dialogue starts, in 90-120 seconds, on video.

3rd prize goes to Veronica Gutierrez,  who was born in Monterrey, Mexico, and has been living in the United States since age 10, and who is studying Global Public Health at Concordia University Texas, in the USA, for her Bachelor’s degree.

Title: Learn to Listen – Listen to Learn

Description: “Now more than ever the communication between cultures is critical for prosperity.”

There were first, second and third place winners, and an award of excellence. Each of these is being highlighted in a separate post, as they warrant our attention. My thanks to the judges of the competition, professionals who made time to review student videos. Thanks also to all the competitors, who took the time to really think about how listening is where intercultural dialogue starts, despite the pandemic.

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Director
Center for Intercultural Dialogue

The CID video competition remains open, but just 1 week remains to the final deadline of June 1, 2020. 

 

Final hints for those entering the competition:

Please read the original description of the requirements. And please follow the rules so we don’t have to disqualify your submission. (Bare minimum: it has to be about listening, in the context of intercultural dialogue. It has to be 30 seconds to 2 minutes in length. It has to be a video. It has to be original, and your own work. When you’re ready, upload your video here (NOT to your own YouTube or Vimeo channel!).

Listening is an act of community, which takes space, time, and silence. -Ursula K. Le Guin

If you have questions, see previously published competition rules, FAQ, and resources. Look at the 2018 or 2019 award winning videos. Read the reflection by one winning team about creating their video. If you still have questions that aren’t answered, then send an email. When you’re ready to submit an entry, click here.

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Director
Center for Intercultural Dialogue

The CID Video Competition opened for submissions a few days ago, and the first entries have come in. In a month the judges will begin their part. My thanks to all of them for taking the time to watch and critique all the student videos. It’s clear the greatest reward for all those who entered the competition is getting their videos seen by these accomplished professionals!

Jim D’Addario has been an award winning producer for the Walt Disney Company since 1995.  He started his career with Disney Interactive as a Production Supervisor on multiple edutainment projects, including the best sellers Lion King Activity Center and Toy Story Activity Center.  Jim was then recruited by Walt Disney Imagineering to produce sound tracks and interactive projects for Walt Disney World, Tokyo DisneySea and Walt Disney Studios Park in Paris.  Jim was instrumental in the design of The Buzz Lightyear ride at Disneyland park and The Winnie the Pooh Ride at Walt Disney World. His most memorable moment came when he worked with the iconic Sherman Brothers (of Mary Poppins fame) to produce the new soundtrack for the ride.  Jim has recorded with some of the most recognizable talent in the industry including Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Rafiki, and Tigger! Jim then jumped ship to work in the online space with Disney Cruise Line, Disneyworld.com, and Disneyland.com creating the first immersive sites for those properties.  Jim’s current position is with Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, Global Broadcast, as a Senior Producer of television and radio commercials, trailers, First-Look programming, in-room videos, online videos, and airport interactive displays.

Ovinuchi Prince Ejiohuo is a writer, filmmaker, photographer, and activist currently working as a Media and Communications Officer/Sustainable Development Goals Ambassador at Yiaga Africa in Nigeria. A 2018 Global Ambassador Fellow of the Better Tomorrow Movement, he is a member of the International Youth Media Summit (IYMS). He has photographed and filmed world leaders, including Nobel Prize winner Dr. Denis Mukwege, Kenyan Activist Boniface Mwangi, former Nigerian Electoral Chairman Prof. Atahiru Jega, Nigerian Speaker House of Representative Femi Gbajabiamila, EU and ECOWAS ambassador to Nigeria Ketil Karlsen, US ambassador Stuart Symington, and British High Commissioner Catriona Laing. His written work and photo and video images have featured in many reputable publications and research both nationally and internationally. He has worked on media projects for organizations such as the Centre for Democracy and Development, ActionAid Nigeria, International Republican Institute, Accountability Lab, European Centre for Electoral Support and the Independent National Electoral Commission. In 2018, he co-directed the silent short film Anything for us for an anti-corruption project sponsored by McArthur Foundation. In 2019 his documentary film displaced showcased in Nepal where he produced the film Rising for IYMS. His Democracy Summer Camp short film Below the Legal Line was nominated for the 2019 Pan African Film Festival. His work focuses on addressing issues around peace, gender equality, marginalisation, education, youth participation, environment, governance and development.

Zsuzsanna Gellér-Varga is a documentary filmmaker and video storyteller living in Budapest, Hungary. Her Screw Your Courage documentary won awards at several US film festivals and was broadcast on public TV. She worked for the New York Times Television as a video-journalist and later directed documentaries, including Once They Were Neighbours, Synagogue for Sale, Mr. Mom, and Angel Business, which were screened internationally and broadcast on public TV. She works as cinematographer, story editor and media consultant, and taught documentary ethics at the international Masters program, DocNomads. She has master degrees from ELTE University Budapest, Graduate School of Journalism UC Berkeley (as a Fulbright scholar), and a DLA from the University of Theater and Film Arts Budapest.

Elizabeth S. Parks is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Colorado State University. She has degrees in Communication, Deaf Studies, and Sign Language Interpreting. She uses her international fieldwork experience with diverse cultural communities to ground her scholarship in listening and dialogue, communication ethics, cultural studies, and disability studies. Her current research focuses on the ways in which cultural diversity and embodied difference impacts perceptions and practices of “good listening” that ultimately promote ethical dialogue across difference. Courtesy of her publisher, Lexington Books, copies of her new book, The Ethics of Listening: Creating Space for Sustainable Dialogue, will be given to the top three prize winners in this competition.

Mary C. Schaffer is a digital media consultant.  She was an Associate Professor of New Media at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) for 14 years.  Prior to CSUN, she spent 12 years as a New Media Executive (Disney, Viacom, Geocities) and 18 years as a journalist (NPR, CBS and NBC).  She is a member of the Producers Guild of America, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the International Documentary Association and Broadcast Education Association.

Mattias Skoog is a film and video creative from the Swedish west coast. He started his career as a public service radio broadcaster and has since then always worked with storytelling, media and communication. After eight years as a digital strategist in local government, Mattias recently decided to go all in as a full-time self-employed filmmaker, and is now combining life as a start-up entrepreneur with being a family man. He is also a member of the advisory board of the International Youth Media Summit.

Carolijn van Noort is a lecturer in politics and public policy at the University of the West of Scotland in London, UK. In 2018, she was awarded her PhD in Political Science and Media, Film and Communication from the University of Otago in New Zealand. Her research explores the strategic communication of rising powers on the issue of infrastructure vision and action plans. Her articles have appeared in Global Society, International Journal of Cultural Policy, Politics and Governance, and Women Talking Politics.

Cadloff, Emily Baron. (2020, March 23). The big transition begins as faculty switch to online learning in response to COVID-19. University Affairs.

George Veletsianos, who holds the Canada Research Chair in Innovative Learning and Technology and is a professor in the School of Education and Technology at Royal Roads University, suggests that instead of in-person exams, “we might ask students to create other artifacts, like videos or audio recordings and so on.”

Think about whether asking students to create a video for the CID Video Competition would fit the needs of your course!