Indiantelevision.com: Discovery Asia and Nokia have announced the second edition of the Mobile Filmmakers Awards. The mobile filmmaking contest has a prize money of $10,000, besides a three-month stint with Discovery Asia in its Asia Pacific headquarters in Singapore, where he or she will be involved in the process of documentary filmmaking. The Mobile Filmmakers Awards initiative was launched last year. In the first contest held last year, India had maximum entries of 609, with two Indians making it to the semi-finals.
The contest is open to the residents of India, Australia, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. The closing date for submissions for the contest is 30 June 2006.