Ask Your Grandparents 4

In keeping with the tradition, this year's 4th edition of the "ASK YOUR GRANDPARENTS" competition invites young people aged 15 to 19 to reflect on Albania's past (1944–1997) through a multimedia work individually or as a team (up to 3 students). "Ask Your Grandparents 4" competition is organized by IDMC in cooperation with the Platform of European Memory and Conscience.

IDMC encourages high school students to explore their creative side by telling the stories they know or learn as they delve into Albania's communist regime and its early years after the transition. They can share stories from family history, their parents or grandparents' memories, stories from acquaintances regarding their experience or reflect on stories previously heard and read.

Your entry may cover stories from:

• Events experienced by your family members
• Events that occurred in your city
• Concerning an object you have at home
• Escaping across borders
• Cases of political persecution/oppression/executions during the dictatorship
• Arts, literature and music
• Education
• Everyday life under dictatorship
• Sports, games
• Love stories
• Etc.
  

"Ask Your Grandparents" aims to raise awareness among young people and Albanian society about the importance of getting to know their country's past, because no future is safe when the past is forgotten.

This if the fifth national competition organized by IDMC after "Born in the '90s – Explore the Past, Create the Future" (2015); "Ask Your Grandparents 1" (2016); "Ask Your Grandparents 2" (2017); "Ask Your Grandparents 3" (2018) with the valuable support of Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

Terms of Participation

• This competition is open to: High schoolers aged 15 to 19 (for individual or team work up to 3 students)
  
• Competition category: Multimedia (audio and/or video up to 3 min in length)
• Competition announcement: 6 November 2019
• Closing date: 5 January 2020
• Awards ceremony: 20 February 2020
  

Criteria

• Entries may be submitted in English or Albanian language.
• Each participant may submit only one entry.
• Each entry must clearly relate to the subject matter of the competition.
• Only original work not presented in similar activities will be accepted.
• Audio, video etc. entries should not exceed 3 minutes in length; longer submissions will not be eligible.
• Entries that promote ethnic, gender or sexual discrimination will not be eligible.
• There is no participation fee.
  

Winners of the "Ask Your Grandparents 3" are not allowed to participate in this competition.

Copyright and Permission to Reuse

• Permission to publish or broadcast must be obtained from anyone who appears on a video or picture.
• Submissions must be original works.
• Any plagiarisms will result in instant disqualification.
• All rights remain with the authors, but by entering into this competition, the winners of the competition transfer unlimited use for translation, publication, exhibition and broadcast to the organizers.
• Under the aforementioned rights, the winners agree that they will not be entitled to other fees or form of compensation other than the prize.
  

Submission of Entries

The deadline to submit your application is 5 January 2020.

The following documents must be submitted by email to konkursi@idmc.al:

• A copy of the completed application form for agreeing with the terms of participation, proposing the title of the entry (1 sentence) and a short abstract (max. 1,200 characters, including spaces) how they intend to communicate their idea
• Final multimedia work via WeTransfer to konkursi@idmc.al
  

Participants will receive a confirmation by e-mail at each selection stage. For more information, please consult our website www.idmc.al or follow us on Facebook.

Jury and Evaluation

The competition will announce 3 prizes: (1 prize per each category, individual and group work and 1 audience prize)

All entries will be evaluated by an independent jury composed of public figures and experts, based on the following criteria:

• Innovative presentation
• Understandability
• Creativity and originality
• Ability to engage the audience
• Clear and powerful message
• Authentic style
• Making a motion picture narrative using innovative forms (social media etc.) and simple devices (smartphones, amateur camcorders etc.) in less than 3 minutes
  

The winners will be announced on February 2020 during one of the MEMORY DAYS events and will be invited to Tirana to collect their prizes in the presence of renowned personalities from the media, civil society, politics and culture.

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