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Video contest asks: What’s your heritage?

Youth projects sought for film festival, with workshop at the Surrey Museum.
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The Surrey Museum invites youth from around Surrey to participate in its youth video contest, “Roots Rewind: Filming Your Heritage.”

Surrey secondary school students ages 13-18 are asked to share their thoughts about what cultural heritage means to them. The video that best expresses cultural heritage in Surrey will be shown at the Surrey International Film Festival on Nov. 1 and 2.

Cultural heritage can be composed of celebrations and festivals, milestones and rites of passage, art and music, food and clothing, buildings and places of worship, stories and language, and more.

Entries can focus on family history, immigration stories, ethnic or religious celebrations, or a song and dance performance.

The contest is open to different channels of presentation, and can be presented as a documentary, narrative or montage.

The first 12 applicants to register will be invited to attend a five-part video creation workshop at the Surrey Museum in May, held by Glen Chua of Glen Chua Media.

The free workshop will cover video production, including script writing, location scouting, lighting, sound recording, video editing, marketing and more.

Deadline for workshop registration and entry submission is April 15. The deadline for video submissions is Sept 1.

Full details, contest rules and submission forms are available at www.surrey.ca/heritageyouth or through Sandra Borger at 604-592-6951.