“Celebrating Life” is a composite competition, one that brings film, photography and lyrics contests on the same platform. Organized jointly by The Daily Star and Standard Chartered, this initiative is a great step in encouraging new talents of Bangladesh, since a contest of such proportions in the media field has never been organized before.

Celebrating Life Festival… covering 12 districts
Celebrating Life is being organized by Star Insight, a fortnightly magazine of The Daily Star. The three contests will feature 26 winners altogether; 4 for film, 10 for photography and 12 for lyrics. Prize money amounting to four lac fifty-two thousand taka will be awarded to the winners.

“Celebrating Life” will be launched at a mega-event in Dhaka by the end of July 2008, where the winners of all three contests will be featured. The Dhaka based festival will commence immediately afterwards, along with screening on Channel I and Audio Cassette and CD launching. Afterwards, the same week long festivals will be replicated in 12 districts of Bangladesh throughout the year 2008, ensuring that Celebrating Life is not Dhaka-centric, and that the results of the competition reach out to the whole of Bangladesh.

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