Singapore – Channel NewsAsia has launched a nation-wide school competition – Days of Rage – Digital Media Competition on June 17. The competition, a collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Student Development Curriculum Division, is held from end May 2014 as part of efforts to celebrate Singapore’s 50th year of independence in 2015.

Students from various institutions in Singapore are invited to create a video based on themes and characters seen in the channel’s highly acclaimed series, Days of Rage. Entries should show how one key character featured in the Days of Rage programme would act in today’s context, and the impact it could have on the community.

The 5-part series was first telecast on the channel from January 2014, and the adapted versions in Chinese, Malay and Tamil were subsequently shown on the respective MediaCorp mass entertainment channels.

Vice President of International Productions at Channel NewsAsia Network Programming and Promotions, Mok Choy Lin, says, “Days of Rage is one of our top notch documentary programmes that has been very well received from all quarters since it was first telecast. Shot with some of the highest production values, it is not only very entertaining as a TV programme, but historically instructive as well. The Ministry of Education has found the series useful in educating the youths about Singapore’s History and we want to use it to kindle interest among the young about the iconic moments in Singapore’s past and to stimulate thought on some of the events and issues. We are also planning an encore telecast of the series from July 1.”

The competition is open to all secondary school, Junior College, ITE and Polytechnic students and deadline for submission is end July.

The winning entry will win a cash prize of S$1,000 and will be showcased on the Days of Rage microsite on the Channel NewsAsia website.