Held in conjunction with the Media Literacy Council as part of the Digital for Life movement, the Better Internet Video Challenge 2025 is part of a nationwide effort to encourage students to advocate for a positive online space. It hopes to promote digital literacy and digital wellness through exploring the impact of technology on human interactions and the issues that arise from it. Furthermore, in line with the development of future-ready competencies for the 21st Century, it also seeks to encourage creativity and civic-awareness through content creation bearing meaningful moral, social or ethical messages.

For this challenge, students will form teams of 3-5 students, and apply their film-making skills to create a short film (any modality - Drama, Documentary, Animation etc) of not more than 5 minutes (including credit roll) based on the theme:

In line with Safer Internet Day 2025, each participating team is required to create a short film that entertains and educates viewers based on the theme Empowering a Safe and Resilient Online Community.

Participants may interpret the theme from a national, societal or individual perspective using some of the pointers below. Participants may wish to place some emphasis on equipping youth with the skills to:

• Stay safe online;

• Respond to and recover from encounters with online harms;

• Support peers affected by online harms and;

• Keep the online space safe for themselves and others. 

Schools interested in participating should complete the registration form online via the link below by 25 April 2025. Registration is now closed. Each school can have up to 4 teams participating, with 1 video per team. Once registration is completed, student teams can start work on their short films. All video entries and accompanying write-ups must be submitted before 2 May 2025, 1700hrs. (Submission link is activated and available below.) Further details, including the format of the submission, are available in the entry kit sent upon registration.

All participants will receive a Certificate of Participation, while the top 3 winning teams will receive certificates and attractive prizes.

Winning schools will be notified through email in early August 2025.

Should you have any queries, please feel free to contact Mr Gerald Choo at 6263 1241 (email: choo_gerald@moe.edu.sg) for further clarification.