TMC announces winners of mobile creation contest

2014-11-25

Winners of a local mobile creation contest were unveiled Nov. 23 in Taipei City, with the awarded works reflecting changes and developments in Taiwan society over the past year.

The contest attracted nearly 30,000 entries from ROC nationals and locally based foreigners in Chinese, English, French, Indonesian and Japanese. These spanned the categories of microfilms, ringtones, stickers and text writing. After a thorough review process, the field was narrowed down to 54 microfilms, 100 ringtones, 72 stickers and 259 text messages.

Iris Liu, a spokeswoman with event sponsor Taiwan Mobile Co. Ltd., said this year’s competition was a tight contest with the judges particularly impressed by the creativity of the entries and the range of topics they covered.

“There have been a lot of high-profile events in Taiwan during the past year, which naturally inspired people to express their feelings and document the changes and pains they brought to the society.”

Top prize for microfilms went to a group of college students from National Chengchi University, National Taiwan University of Arts and Shih Hsin University. They collected NT$1 million (US$32,358) for “Slowly to the Sea,” an emotive offering about a young girl arranging the funeral for her pet goldfish.

Regarding ringtones, Shirley Tai swept all comers, pocketing NT$200,000 for her rhythmic “Running Out of Power” submission.

For stickers, Web designer Chen Yen-wen claimed first and NT$150,000 for an entry featuring Guan Yu, the most famous war hero from the Three Kingdoms period (220-280), and his mount Red Hare. The creation illustrates the strong bond between human beings and animals.

On text writing front, 17-year-old high school student Chen Hsiao-wen from Hsinchu earned the thumbs-up and N$70,000 from the judges for her “I have read your ‘read messages.’” The judges lauded the text, describing it as adroitly summarizing the feelings of confrontation, frustration and loss often experienced in a relationship.

Source: Taiwan Today (http://taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xItem=224386&CtNode=413)