Media Partnership Challenge

At Global Student Forum 2009 Jon Snow of Channel 4 News launched The Media Partnership Challenge 2009.

Schools were challenged to create a concept and storyboard for a short film that would communicate issues around child mortality to the general public.

The winning entry would then be made into a short film, combining resources from Global Student Forum and Damaris.tv with the creativity and enthusiasm of the winning students, and would be promoted as widely as possible.

We received 29 entries, all of a very high standard and representing a lot of careful and creative work. These were carefully assessed by three judges working independently, scoring the entries according to the published criteria of Engagement, Effectiveness, Originality and Achievability. This resulted in a list of 17 entries which went through to the next stage.

These entries were then each carefully considered and discussed at a meeting of eleven judges, which took place in the boardroom of ITN, hosted by Krishnan Guru-Murthy of Channel 4 News.

We are now delighted to announce the results as follows:

Winner:

Kesteven & Grantham Girl's School (Sophie Duffree, Rebecca Climpson, Kate O'Neill, Ellie Wood, Kirsty Hewitt, Hayley Groves, Natasha Cutmore, Emily Carter, Hollie Anderson, Naomi Herbert) Reflections

Runner Up:

Farnborough 6th Form College (Amy Smith) I am the difference

Highly Commended:

Fearnhill School (Liam Mayet, Sam Johnson, Ryan Murphy, Emma Cooke, Parrees Ram, Meena Balley, Shaun Trussell, Jamie Laing)

St Michael's Catholic School (Shauna Mayers-Matthias, Sarah Adereti, Gabi Barria, Natasha Masih, Emma Molloy)

Funding

We are delighted that the Media Partnership Challenge has received a grant from the CBA-DFID Broadcast Media Scheme under the Programme Development Fund 2009. This grant will be used towards developing and producing the films and they are helping us as we seek to find appropriate broadcast slots to air the films as widely as possible.

Sally-Ann Wilson from CBA said "The ideas for films submitted to the Media Partnership Challenge were all wonderfully innovative and creative and they highlighted the fact that young people in the UK today have a strong sense of injustice. They clearly understand what life can be like for people in the developing world and they are more than ready to act to do something about it!"