Nearly 700 public votes were cast to determine the winner of the Diversity Video Contest! Chandani Kaur Kohli wins with her film,
"Elephant In the Room". The film will be premiered at the
Sikh Art and Film Festival in New York City in October. The second place winner -- with only a difference of 150 votes -- is Sunny Dhillon with his film,
"Can't Judge a Book By Lookin At The Cover".
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Second Place
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First Place Winner ($1,000 grand prize)
"Elephant In The Room" by Chandani Kaur Kohli
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Second Place Winner ($500 prize)
"Can't Judge A Book By Lookin At The Cover" by Sunny Dhillon
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The Coalition hopes to leverage these two videos to highlight stereotypes, discrimination and civil rights issues through an artistic lens. The Coalition plans to use these two videos to dispel misconceptions about Sikhs and other minority groups. You can view the winning videos
here.
A panel of judges reviewed all submissions received and narrowed down the videos to the top two. These judges used an 11-point criteria that was broken into 4 categories -- creativity, message, versatility, and quality of the production. We would like to thank both
Paul Johar and Kevin Lee for volunteering their time and expert opinion as judges for this competition.
The Coalition would like to thank the
Sikh Art and Film Foundation for their partnership throughout the competition. The Coalition would also like to thank
SikhNet for all their guidance and help with promotion.
