About the Collection: 2022 “When Koala Meets Panda” China-Australia Short Video Special Collection

“When Koala Meets Panda” is back. Co-organized by the Consulate-General of the People’s Republic of China in Brisbane and People’ s Daily Online Australia, the 2022 “When Koala Meets Panda” China-Australia Short Video Contest Special Collection will kick off on Sept.1, 2022.

Different from the previous years, the collection is specially designed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of China-Australia diplomatic relations and to further develop the friendship between the two countries. Participants are encouraged to share stories that they experienced or witnessed Australia-China friendship through either text or video form.

“Koala” represents Australian youths and Australian society while “Panda” symbolises China or any Chinese elements related. “Meet” means a personal perspective, through which we encourage participants to tell a story about their own experience or story.

Text story submissions will be open from Sept. 1 to Oct. 30, 2022. Participants can write their stories in Chinese or English, enrich them with relevant pictures, and send them to the event email address. Moreover, participants whose text stories are selected can choose to film their own stories or have them filmed by People's Daily Online and made into short videos.

Video story submissions will be open until Nov. 30, 2022. Video stories can be presented in forms including, but not limited to, monologues, situational interpretations, drawings, animated displays, singing, rapping, etc.

Participants are required to post their videos to event offical email or on their social media accounts with the hashtag #koalameetspanda and link one of the event's official accounts with an at sign, @, using the handles below:

- Facebook: @whenkoalameetspanda

- Twitter: @koalameetspanda

- Instagram: @koalameetspandacontest

- TikTok: @whenkoalameetspanda

- Email address: koalameetspandacontest@gmail.com

At the end of the submission time, the organisers will assess the submitted videos in terms of quality, content, and online playability, select the finalist videos and present them in Brisbane. Gifts will be given to the winners by the Chinese Consulate General in Brisbane at the exhibition.

Terms and Conditions:

1. Videos must under no circumstances contain any material which could be considered offensive, discriminatory, sexist, racist or affects the reputation of a person or organisation, and/or which alludes to political or religious issues or threatens public safety and orders.

2. The Organiser may reject any videos which contains materials contrary to clause 1 and may disqualify the Participant who submits the video from the completion.

3. The Organiser shall not be held responsible for any aspect of the competition unforeseen in these terms and conditions, or any event or circumstance beyond the Organiser's control.

4. The Participant acknowledges and agrees that his/her video and associated personal information may be stored by the Organiser on an electronic database and may be used by the Organiser for the purpose of promoting or marketing of the competition without notice and without fees being paid to the Participant. The Organiser warrants that it will not use any personal information for any unlawful or unauthorized purpose or any purpose amounting to a breach of privacy of the Participant unless disclosed in these terms and conditions.

5. Upon participating in the competition, the Participant warrants that he/she:

a) is the copyright owner of the video or has obtained appropriate licence for the use of all copyright works and subject matters comprising the video;

b) guarantees that the video does not infringe on the privacy rights, copyright or any other rights of any person or entity;

c) grants the Organiser an irrevocable, royalty free, non-exclusive licence in perpetuity throughout the world to use, re-use, publish, re-publish the video, in whole or in part, through any medium, at present or in future;

d) has all necessary rights and licences to grant the licence set out in clause 5 (c);

e) will not make a claim against the Organiser in respect any rights or benefit that the Organiser otherwise entitles under the licence in clause 5 (c); and

f) is over 18 years of age and will assume full responsibility for the legal consequence of the video he/she provided.

6. The Participant acknowledges and agrees that the Organiser in conducting the completion will assume no responsibility for any breach by the Participant in respect of:

a) a warranty under clause 5;

b) any third party's intellectual property or other rights; or

c) any law.

7. The Participant acknowledges and agrees that he/she will indemnity and kept the Organiser indemnified against any loss, damage, costs or expense incurred by the Organiser arising out of or in connection with the Participant's breach of matters as described in clause 6 (a) – (c).

8. The Organiser reserves the right to remove or amend these conditions without prior notice to the Participant and shall under no circumstance be liable for any claims of damages arising from the removal or amendment of conditions under this clause 8.

9. For Participant who has been awarded with the "Most Popular in China Award", the '1-week cultural trip to China' will be limited to two persons from the winning team. The Participant acknowledges that he/she is aware of and agrees with this condition upon entry of the competition.

10. The Organiser reserves the right of final decision and interpretation should any disputes about the meaning of these terms and conditions arises.