Requirements
1. The entries should meet at least one of the following conditions:
(1) With at least one foreigner in the crew, in any position including host, protagonist or interviewee, director, designer, cameraman or producer, etc.
(2) Being related to cross-cultural communication between China and other countries. All the works should abide by basic rules for international communication in contents and narration.
2. Institutions, studios or individuals are all qualified to participate in the competition. Each institution is allowed to submit up to 20 videos and 5 for each individual participant. For the video series, choose 3 episodes to submit. Each video work is only allowed to participate in one section.
3. No limitations for the genre of videos. For instance, interviews, talk shows, documentaries, vlogs, animations, microfilms and short dramas are all qualified. Each video should be within 10 minutes.
4. No limitations for the languages used in the videos, and English, French, Russian, Spanish, and Arabic are especially encouraged. For videos with only Chinese, an English subtitle is required, and a Chinese or English subtitle is required for videos presented in other languages.
5. All videos should be positive, any content related to pornography, violence racial discrimination, etc. are disqualified.
6. The resolution of the works should be 1280*720 or above. MPG, MPEG, AVI, MOV, WMV and MP4 are acceptable as video formats.
Submit
1. Log on to www.mychinastory.com, click on the entry on the home page, fill in the registration form and upload the link to your video released online. Afterwards, please email your videos as directly attached or via shared link(s) and password to Baidu or Google Drives to mychinastory@cnmatters.com. Please make sure your link is permanently accessible. The subject of your email should follow this format: “Participant name-Video title-Section”. The text should indicate the contact information. (Please make sure the video title in the email should be the same as that in the registration form).
2. It is also qualified for participation if you upload your video to either a personal or company account on Douyin or KUAISHOU, and add the hashtag #2024第三只眼看中国 for it.
Rights and interests of participants
1. Participants have the opportunity to be shortlisted for relevant awards and corresponding certificates and/or prizes.
2. Each rewarded team will be invited with one or two representatives to attend the award ceremony, where experts and people from media and platforms will gather and share experiences.
3. The awarded videos stand the chance for massive media exposure during the ceremony.
4. The awarded videos will be presented in the video screening and exhibitions by us at home and abroad.
5. The awarded videos stand the chance to be published in the Chinese-English book named after the competition.
6. Awarded vloggers and teams will be invited to join the China Story Alliance as signed producers of the contest and will participate in the relevant activities and video projects.
7. Outstanding vloggers and teams will be invited to join the organizer’s workshop.