General Rules

  • The Challenge is open to all schools in Kathmandu Valley for students of grade 12 (or equivalent) and below.

  • Each school can submit as many videos as desired.

  • You must have full copyrights to the submitted material, including images, sound effects and music if used or have sought consent from the original producers of such materials.

  • Competition submissions must not include any endorsements of products or services, or any obscene, violent, racist or defamatory content.

  • Incomplete entries or entries that do not comply with these General Rules will be automatically disqualified.

  • Videos must be created by students. Videos must be original content and be produced without the assistance from paid professionals. Guidance from teachers and parents are allowed.

  • Videos must be less than 2 minutes, submitted via email to drishti.kathmandu@gmail.com as one single file in the highest quality.

  • Judging Criteria:The judges will look for a creative, engaging and inspiring submissions. Your entry will be judged by an independent panel on the following criteria:

    • Relevance of your content to the themes of raising awareness, innovative solutions to the air pollution problem and a call to action;

    • Creative expression;

    • Technical ability;

    • Persuasiveness of the entry.

  • The organizers and judges reserve the right to remove any entries from the competition that they feel may breach any of the Competition rules, the Terms and Conditions or may bring the competition into disrepute. Such entries will be disqualified.