Two months ago, I came across a competition ''第6屆 eye臺灣win兩岸 短片徵選競賽'' organized by the Mainland Affairs Council, together with the Immigration Office and Cheers magazine. The main idea of the competition was to introduce your life in Taiwan in less than 3 minutes. I thought, "Why not join? There's nothing to lose!" So, I made a video, uploaded it to my channel, and joined the competition.
More in my another post: HERE
Two weeks ago, the shortlisted list was released, and we were among the 25 selected. Shortly after, we received an email inviting us to the winners' ceremony held in Taipei.
I don't have much experience making videos as I used to only write. So, being in the top 20 out of nearly 200 videos sounds great.
Only one thing made me feel it's a bit unfair, as the rules stated video has to be set to Public, but there were some Unlisted. I didn't check all of the videos, but I watched a few that sparked my interest or of those that I knew, for example video made by ''莎白Elizabeth''. For those that don't know she is a famous YouTuber, originally from the USA. She made it into the shortlisted list which I felt is not fair since the video is hidden from people and only those opening the link from the website can see it but she wasn't disqualified.
In the past, the competition was primarily for individuals from China, Hong Kong, and Macau. However, this year it was open to participants from any country. I wasn't the only non-Asian person to join, but I was the only white person at the award ceremony.
There were 20 winners in total, with 3 people chosen through online voting, and the rest selected by judges. We made it into the group of 8 people who received awards for excellent work. Two people were awarded for second and third place, and one lucky winner received 200,000 NTD.
Despite the cold front, the weather was great that day. We could even see Taipei 101. When I was here 6 years ago, half of the building was covered in clouds.
For more travel and food-related content, feel free to check out my other posts, as well as my YouTube channel.
The winners list (https://storyintaiwan.cwg.tw/2023/winner)
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