An independent jury co-chaired by Hernando de Soto (President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy) and Michael Apted (President of the Directors Guild of America) selected the 18 finalists, and the online voting public chose the six winners, one from each region of the world. Public voting to select the six winners ended at midnight of June 15.
The winning video starts off with the recognizable voice of one of the most influential Nepali youth leaders and CA member, Gagan Thapa: “Democracy is one of the most difficult terms to explain but it’s also the easiest to expound. Using a few words, and in a short time, I’m interested in explaining it. Democracy is (em)powering the individual, to make the individual powerful, to make the individual supreme, to make the individual content, to make the individual the focus of every thought. That’s what I feel is democracy.”
The winners will receive an all-expense-paid trip to New York, Washington, and Los Angeles in September, where they will meet with democracy groups, film and television companies, the media, and government organizations. Screenings of their films are planned in all three cities.
The winners announced in Washington D.C. on Tuesday are: Tsering Choden from Nepal (South and Central Asia); Chansa Tembo from Zambia (Sub-Saharan Africa) ; Aissa Peñafiel from the Philippines (East Asia and Pacific) ; Lukasz Szozda from Poland (Europe) ; Rodin Hamidi from the United Arab Emirates (Near East and North Africa) ; and Anna Christa dos Santos from Brazil (Western Hemisphere).
The Democracy Video Challenge was a worldwide online competition that engaged people around the world in a global dialogue on democracy, where young video makers were asked to complete the phrase, “Democracy is…” through three-minute videos posted on the competition’s YouTube site.
More than 900 people from 95 countries entered the challenge, the press release added.
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