Over 1,000 content creators and film producers, across Nigeria,  participated at the just-concluded TECNO’s CAMON 20 Short Film Challenge, aimed at encouraging and celebrating local talents, in the nation’s creative industry.

Making this disclosure at the presentation of awards and cash prizes, in Lagos, recently, to  eight of the 20 participants that made it to the final stages of the competition, the  Senior Marketing Manager, TECNO Nigeria,  Chinma Banksharon-Nwaneri, stated that the intention of the Award was to provide a platform for content creators and users of the TECNO CAMON 20 smartphone device  to showcase their skill by using the device to shoot  short films that will be award-deserving.

She congratulated the 20 finalists for making it to the final stages of the competition, noting that the quality of their contents were proofs that they knew their onions, in terms of content creation and film production.

Also speaking at the event, the Project Manager and member of the TECNO Team, Charles Enwere, noted that one of the corporate objectives of the company is to harness talents and provide them with a platform and tool, such as CAMION  20 Smartphone device, with which to express such skills.

Enwere explained that the last 20 finalists were arrived at after a thorough assessment of their entries by a team of  independent assessors, led by  award-winning content creator, Kayode Kazeem.

He added that the winners were being rewarded with different cash prizes, depending on the categories, so as to ginger them to do more, and also empower them to contribute their quotas to the nation’s creative industry.

The Awards categories include: Highest Number of Votes, Best Art Design, Best Picture Editor, Best Storyline, Best Lights Designer, Best Cinematography, Best Use of CAMON and Overall Best Category.

Chika Agwike, who had earlier won a cash prize of N100,000 in the Highest Number of Votes Category was to later emerge Overall Best, winning a cash prize of N1million.

In his reaction, an obviously-elated Agwike expressed delight at the wins, noting that his decision to persevere, in spite of the obvious cash crunch encountered while shooting the winning film, had finally paid off.