For almost 18 years International Care Ministry of the Philippines Inc. has been reaching the poorest of the poor in the Philippines through Feeding, Medical Assistance, Pre-school & Elementary Scholarhip and Training Program on Values Formation, Primary Health Education and Livelihood Opportunities.

In order to promote locally, nationally and internationally the work that ICM is doing, we are pleased to announce to you the ICM Video Contest.

The first stage of the competition will be the Regional Contest, with the top three from each of our five regions winning a cash prize and qualifying for our national finals, which will be held in Manila in June.

The top three in the Regional Contest will receive one-on-one coaching from Michal Joachimowski, a professional videographer, to help improve their videos through editing or reshooting, before submitting them to the National Final. The winning videos will be considered for use in the Hong Kong, Manila and USA annual fundraising banquets, as well as further cash prizes for the top three videos in the National Contest.

The criteria are as follows:

• The videos should be between 3 and 5 minutes long.
• Each video should highlight the need for help in ICM’s area and what are ICM’s efforts to bring hope. For example the videographer could find a particular person or family that have been helped by ICM and tell their story of need and ICM’s assistance. Or they could do a day in the life of an ICM program or staff member (remember you will need the permission of the person being filmed to show them on video). There are good example videos on the ICM website.
• We encourage people from outside the organization to make the videos and therefore to learn more about, and publicize ICM’s work. The local area finals will be held in March and the National Competition in Manila will be in June.

LOCAL PRIZES:
1ST PLACE - P10,000.00
2ND PLACE - P 5,000.00
3RD PLACE - P 2,000.00

NATIONAL PRIZES:
1ST PLACE - P30,000.00
2ND PLACE - P20,000.00
3RD PLACE - P10,000.00

Entries need to be submitted a DVD to the ICMPI office by April 30, 2010, along with the details of the film on an entry form (available at the ICM office or at www.caremin.com)

We are looking to you and your teams to help us make this contest a success, so please publicize it as widely as possible and assist the competition entrants in any way that you are able.

I’m available to answer any questions you may have. Please contact us at 708-2363 and ask for Kenneth or email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . For more information on ICM and our programs, please visit our website at www.caremin.com.