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Animated film wins two school students a trip to Australia
Armed with drawing skills and a love for nature, Ariel Ezra Bazaliel and Kevin Johanes from Dian Harapan high school in Daan Mogot, West Jakarta, won the first prize in a short movie competition
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rmed with drawing skills and a love for nature, Ariel Ezra Bazaliel and Kevin Johanes from Dian Harapan high school in Daan Mogot, West Jakarta, won the first prize in a short movie competition. The award includes a trip to Perth, Australia.
"We're so excited to go to Perth. It's going to be such a wonderful trip for us," Ariel said.
Their animated film, Nature's Memory, is about the changing environment as a result of destructive human activities.
"We want to make something different, so we made a cartoon about the current environmental condition," Kevin said.
Besides, he added, cartoons could be enjoyed by everyone.
They had only one week to prepare for the competition and most of the time was spent drawing, he said.
They will visit universities in Perth in April to view several projects to mitigate the impact of climate change.
"We'll learn a lot there and we believe that it's a start for our next contribution to help tackle climate change issues," Ariel said.
The second winner is Reuse Grey Water, by Keziah Saditya and Marcel Ardivan from Saint Laurensia High School, and the third is Hope, by Khosyi Yoga Pratama and Adriel Andriawan from Sinarmas Academy Tangerang.
Nature's Memory also won the favorite category, selected directly by people through Facebook and text messages.
"We put a status on our Facebook, asking our friends to pick us," Kevin laughed.
This first climate change short movie competition for high schools was organized by the Australian Embassy in cooperation with the Indonesian Nobel Foundation, the Climate Project Indonesia and Perth Education City.
Five movies were selected out of a total 88 short films sent from high school students in Greater Jakarta. The first round of the selection process was conducted from Feb. 17 to 23 and the final round of the competition was on Feb. 24.
The judges included noted film and music director Jay Subiakto and The Jakarta Post's chief editor, Endy M. Bayuni.
Australian Ambassador to Indonesia Bill Farmer said in a speech at the award ceremony, that such an event should be highly appreciated because it highlighted youth concerns and created awareness of new directions in education and industry resulting from the global issue of climate change.
