Viewing of Official Contest Entries

1.The videos are currently showing in two separate episodes multiple times per week on Community Cable 9 in Whitehorse.

Episode 1 – Tues, Thurs, Sat, Sun 4pm and 8pm

Episode 2 – Tues, Thurs, Sat, Sun 5pm and 9pm

2. Watch the videos and give each one a rating between 1 (low) and 5 (high)

3.Email us your ratings at videocontest@nwtel.ca. We will accept one rating per film from each email address.

Ratings will be accepted until October 15^th, 2010. Contact us at communitytv@nwtel.ca if you have any questions.

Enjoy the Videos! 

Contest Details

The 2010 Community Cable 9 Short Video Contest is accepting submissions of short videos from now until the contest closing date of August 31, 2010.  All Official Entries will be evaluated on a combination of audience voting and a panel of independent judges who will award prizes based on the following criteria:

1. Overall production quality and concept development, as rated by a panel of independent judges.
2. Audience voting

One Grand Prize for best overall submission will be awarded along with prizes in the following categories:

1. Audience favourite based on the highest scoring received through audience feedback.
2. TV Show - based on traditional “TV show” style, some of which are noted below
   1. Talk Show
   2. Personal interest shows (Cooking, gardening, fishing, outdoors, sports)
   3. Short drama / sit-com
3. Journalism / Documentary - best news-oriented submission and/or documentary submission
4. Short film
5. Up to five Honourable Mention Prizes from films in any category

Winning Entries

All Official Entries will be evaluated on a combination of audience voting (50%) and a panel of independent judges (50%) who will award prizes based on the following criteria:

1. A panel of independent judges appointed by Northwestel will judge each entry based on following concepts. The scoring by the judges will constitute 50% of the final scoring.
   1. Overall production quality that includes good techniques of camera, lighting, sound, and post-production.
   2. Overall concept development.
2. Audience voting will constitute 50% of the final scoring of each entry.
   1. Audience will be encouraged to vote for their favourite entries by sending an email to videocontest@nwtel.ca and rating each entry with a score of 1 (lowest) to 5 (highest). Only one vote per email address will be accepted.

Prize Details

1. Prizes will be awarded at a special viewing event that will take place in Whitehorse no later than October 31, 2010. All prize winners not in attendance will be notified by email or phone.
2. One Grand Prize will be awarded consisting of a $2500 MacBook Gift Certificate from Media Solutions, the Whitehorse-based Apple Computer dealer. The gift certificate can be used to purchase a MacBook through Media Solutions. No cash value will be awarded.
3. Four Runner-Up Prizes will be awarded for the best entry (not including the Grand Prize winner) in the categories listed below. Each Runner-Up Prize will consist of a $250 Gift Certificate from the Source that can be redeemed at any Source location in Canada.. No cash value will be awarded.
   1. Audience Favourite – the film that receives the most votes submitted from the public. The panel of judges will not vote on the winner of this category.
   2. TV Show – best entry with a format common to the TV genre
   3. Journalism / Documentary
   4. Short Film
4. Up to five Honourable Mention prizes will be awarded consisting of a $50 Gift Certificate from Media Solutions in Whitehorse.  No cash value will be awarded.
5. Odds of winning a prize will be based on the number of Official Entries.
6. Only one prize will be awarded to any Official Entry.

Download PDF of rules here