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5th ABU Digista Teens helps animation in Bhutan
T
he 1st Producers’ Meeting for ABU Digista Teens 2015 was held in Hanoi,Vietnam, hosted
by VTV, from 22 to 23 April. Digista Teens is an ABU’s unique educational platform for young creators in the Asia-Pacific region to showcase their talent through various digital artworks including 2D/3D animation and stop- motion.
Seven organisations - BBS-Bhutan, NHK-Japan, RTB-Brunei, RTM-Malaysia, NBT Thailand,TVK-Cambodia and VTV- Vietnam took part in the meeting. MNM Mongolia did not take part in the meeting but will participate in the event. This year BBS-Bhutan has joined this co-production for the first time.
After screening last year’s programmes by NHK and NBT, participating producers exchanged their ideas and thoughts to make this year’s event more engaging to the young audience, followed by presentation of the event plan of this year by the host organisation, RTB, Brunei. The theme of the artworks for this year is “Happiness”. The Digista Teens 2015 will be held in late November.
Sangye Choiphel, a young producer from Bhutan Broadcasting Service (BBS) has kindly accepted to share with us his experience of participating in Digista Teens. He was so excited to find out that the project involved other Asian Countries where the youth can interact in meaningful conversation within the common interest of digital media. Digista Teens is an ultimate platform for young people to learn from each other, not only sharing ideas and gaining
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different skills but learning about the unique and different cultures.
In 2013, excited to get Bhutan involved in the project so that the youth of Bhutan had an opportunity to express their ideas through animation, a field of media that is almost non-existent within the country, Sangye spoke to his managers to get BBS to be part of the Digista Teens family. Unfortunately due to financial restraints, the station dropped the project. This year Sangye will make it. Digista Teens 2015 will be the first time Bhutan will be a part of the project and he expects it to be just as successful as the previous editions held in NHK Tokyo, Japan and NBT Bangkok, Thailand.
For his youth Challengers, this will be an opportunity of a life time as they have never been outside of the country let alone be on an airplane. The learning and sharing experience that the challengers will attain through the Digista Teens 2015 in Brunei will be life changing for them. To find other youth from other countries sharing similar ideas and interest will surely encourage them to pursue their passion in this field with a positive attitude.
The field of Animation in Bhutan is at its infancy with very limited expertise. As a result this is one of the biggest challenges that they will face, but the interest in animation within the youth in Bhutan is extraordinary, some have grown up watching Japanese Animation. Therefore through the Digista Teens project, the experience and learning opportunity could possibly develop and further enhance the field of Animation in Bhutan.
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