MEIHODO International Youth Visual Media Festival is an independent visual media festival sponsored by MEIHODO, a Japanese corporation, aiming to support young visual artists worldwide.
Founded in 2018, the annual Festival was jointly created by MEIHODO, Inc. and the Beijing Film Academy of China, as a grand exchange event for the exhibition and selection of works by young visual artists.
The event is composed of three parts: the themed works exhibition, the discussion forum, and the evaluation and award ceremony.
To commemorate the year 2020, this year's themed visual works exhibition titled "We Are in This Together -- Unforgettable Moments In 2020”. The visual media represented this year gathers images from your average person living through the pandemic and showing that we can and will get through this together!
The exhibition will be open for submission from September 27 - December 5, 2020 and is open for short videos and graphic works related to the pandemic from any artist regardless of age, region or specialty.
These works will be selected by the official judges of MEIHODO International Youth Visual Media Festival, and the winning works will be awarded prizes. The offline exhibition venue of the theme video works is set in the "MEIHODO and Food Culture Museum" in Fukuoka city, Japan, and the online exhibition is in the official H5 page of the MEIHODO International Youth Visual Media Festival of Tencent Video.
For Professional Visual Works Awards:
One MEIHODO Grand Prize of MEIHODO International Youth Visual Media Festival, 1 million yen ($10,000.00)
Feature Film
One Gold Prize, JPY300,000;
Two Silver Prizes, JPY200,000 each;
Three Bronze Prizes, JPY100,000 each;
Documentary Film
One Gold Prize, JPY300,000;
Two Silver Prize, JPY200,000 each;
Three Bronze Prize, JPY100,000 each;
Photography
One Gold Prize, JPY300,000;
Two Silver Prize, JPY200,000 each;
Three Bronze Prize, JPY100,000 each;
For Themed Visual Works Exhibition Awards, photography and films will be showcased on the Meihodo official website, Meihodo youtube and Meihodo collaborate media tencent video.
One MEIHODO Grand Prize of themed visual works exhibition, 1 million Japanese yen ($10,000)
Themed Photography :
One Gold Prize, JPY 300,000,
Two Silver Prizes, JPY 200,000 each;
Three Bronze Prizes, JPY 100,000 each;
Ten Honorable Mentions, JPY 10,000 each.
Themed films :
One Gold Prize, JPY 300,000,
Two Silver Prizes, JPY 200,000 each;
Three Bronze Prizes, JPY 100,000 each.