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Friday, 19 November 2010 |
Students in Thailand raise awareness about cluster bombs
“One quarter of cluster-bomb survivors are children” cited young
scriptwriter and director Charika Aoey Sarisut, winner of the Youth
Cluster Munitions Commercial Contest as the inspiration for her TV
Commercial script “I Want My Shoes Back”.
The Youth Cluster Munitions Commercial Contest, a Cluster Munitions
Coalition Local Campaign Grants Project led by Nonviolence
International Southeast Asia sought to empower youth in social
responsibility and raise awareness about the Convention banning
cluster munitions. The effort is a humble contribution by the youth in
Thailand being in the most cluster bombed region of the world.
Thailand, a leader in the adoption of the landmark Mine Ban Treaty in
1997 has not yet become a state party to the Convention banning
cluster bombs.
The contest has yielded a winning script for a 30 second commercial
which will be launched internationally on 8 November 2010 at the Young
Leaders Forum of the First Meeting of States Parties to the Convention
on Cluster Munitions in Vientiane, Laos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsXm3-kQJ_A
The Year of Youth
The contest has been an opportunity to bring creative minds together
and foster civic consciousness and engagement among the youth, a
timely contribution to this year’s UN Year of the Youth. Run from 1
September to 1 October 2010, the contest has generated interest within
the schools and its public awareness program.
To prepare potential applicants for the script-writing contest, a
series of workshops – including creative writing, production, and art
for TV – were facilitated (in Thai and English) by the Faculty of
Journalism and Mass Communication of Thammasat University's Rangsit
Campus and in close cooperation with facilitators from Chulalongkorn
University Language Institute and Spirit Studio (Pittarnin Jeab
Disayaniyom and his crew). Likewise, the Thai Film Foundation
supported the contest.
Dean Pornchit Sombutphanich of Thamassat noted, “the university’s
program aims to produce well-equipped mass media future professionals
who have the proper ethical and professional training and skills to be
future media specialists.” Aoey has undergone the full commercial
process, from creative idea development and scriptwriting to filming
and production. She is a budding young leader in the campaign, and
excited to share her work and passion “to help the children” in Laos
and the rest of the world.
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