Asia and Climate Change: Your Video Could Be Worth $2,500

If you're a citizen of an Asian country and would like to have your video work critiqued by the likes of Cannes and Venice Film Festivals award-winning directors Zhu Wen of China and Brillante Mendoza and Pepe Diokno of the Philippines, you'll want to enter the Asian Development Bank's "My View: The Asia-Pacific Climate Change Video Contest."

Just upload your video with your take on climate change in Asia to YouTube or Youku by the Jan. 31, 2010, deadline to compete and be eligible for $10,000 in prizes -- including a $2,500 first prize -- in the three categories.

Contest basics:

• When you upload your video, tag it "ADB Climate Change."
• After uploading your video, register here.  (To compete, you must be a citizen of one of ADB's 67 Asian countries.)
• Digital film in any format (including mobile phone) of one to five minutes about climate change in Asia & the Pacific.
• Any genre, including animation, documentary, drama, experimental, art, testimonial, etc.
• Any language, though contestants are strongly encouraged to include subtitles and a full-length script in English in order to facilitate public outreach.

All the details are here.