Soba Chalana Short Video & Soba Seya Photography Competition 2026
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📷🎥 Soba Chalana & Soba Seya Competitions 2026
Ministry of Environment – Sri Lanka
Short Video Competition & Environmental Photography Competition
🎥 “Soba Chalana” Short Video Competition 2026
The Ministry of Environment invites creative individuals and school students to participate in the “Soba Chalana” Short Video Competition 2026. Participants can create videos focusing on environmental subjects and issues.
🌿 Themes / Subject Areas
- Environmental events
- Climate change
- Biodiversity
- Environmental pollution
- Other environment-related topics
👥 Competition Categories
- 🏫 School Category
- 🌍 Open Category
📌 Important Competition Guidelines
- Maximum video duration: 2 minutes.
- Videos may be submitted in Sinhala, Tamil or English.
- Sinhala and Tamil videos containing dialogue should have English subtitles.
- The subtitle condition does not apply to videos without dialogue.
- Any suitable recording device, including a mobile phone, may be used.
- The final video should be high resolution and suitable for projection on a large screen.
- An applicant may submit more than one video.
- Submitted creations must be original.
📤 Submission
Videos may be submitted on DVD as separate data files or via email to: sobachalanashortvideos@gmail.com
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📷 “Soba Seya” Environmental Photography Competition 2026
The Ministry of Environment is organizing the “Soba Seya” Environmental Photography Competition 2026 to promote environmental awareness and conservation in Sri Lanka.
🎯 Competition Theme
Photographs can feature nature, environmental conservation and environmental issues found within Sri Lanka.
📌 Important Photography Rules
- All photographs must have been captured within Sri Lanka.
- One competitor may submit a maximum of 3 photographs.
- Entries must be original digital colour or black-and-white photographs.
- Images should be submitted in JPG/JPEG format.
- The shortest side of the image should be at least 2000 pixels.
- No borders, watermarks or signatures should appear on submitted images.
- Only limited digital adjustments permitted under the official competition rules should be made.
- Photographs must be the entrant's own original work.
📤 How to Submit
Send photographs together with the entrant's name, address, contact number and date of birth to:
🏆 Prizes
- 🥇 1st Place – Cash Prize & Certificate
- 🥈 2nd Place – Cash Prize & Certificate
- 🥉 3rd Place – Cash Prize & Certificate
- 🏅 10 Special Merit Award winners – Cash Prizes & Certificates
- 🎖️ An additional 30 Merit Awards
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🇱🇰 සිංහල සාරාංශය
🎥 “සොබා චලන” කෙටි වීඩියෝ තරගාවලිය – 2026
පරිසර අමාත්යාංශය විසින් සංවිධානය කරනු ලබන මෙම තරගාවලිය සඳහා විවෘත හා පාසල් කාණ්ඩ යටතේ නිර්මාණ ඉදිරිපත් කළ හැක.
- ⏱️ උපරිම වීඩියෝ කාලය – විනාඩි 2යි
- 🌿 පරිසර සිදුවීම්, දේශගුණික විපර්යාස, ජෛව විවිධත්වය, පරිසර දූෂණය ආදී මාතෘකා
- 🗣️ සිංහල, දෙමළ හෝ ඉංග්රීසි භාෂාවෙන් නිර්මාණ කළ හැක
- 🔤 සංවාද සහිත සිංහල හා දෙමළ වීඩියෝ සඳහා ඉංග්රීසි උපසිරැසි අවශ්ය වේ
- 📱 ජංගම දුරකථනයක් ඇතුළු සුදුසු ඕනෑම පටිගත කිරීමේ උපකරණයක් භාවිත කළ හැක
- 📧 Email: sobachalanashortvideos@gmail.com
📷 “සොබා සේයා” පාරිසරික ඡායාරූප තරගාවලිය – 2026
- 🎯 තේමාව – “The Nature with an Artistic Eye”
- 🇱🇰 ඡායාරූප ශ්රී ලංකාව තුළ ගත් ඒවා විය යුතුය
- 📸 එක් අයෙකුට උපරිම ඡායාරූප 3ක්
- 🖼️ JPG/JPEG ආකෘතියෙන් ඉදිරිපත් කළ යුතුය
- 📐 කෙටි පැත්ත අවම වශයෙන් pixels 2000ක් විය යුතුය
- 🚫 Watermark හෝ අත්සන් ඇතුළත් නොකළ යුතුය
- 📧 Email: sobaseyaphotography@gmail.com
🇱🇰 தமிழ் சுருக்கம்
🎥 “சொபா சலன” குறு வீடியோ போட்டி – 2026
சுற்றாடல் அமைச்சினால் ஏற்பாடு செய்யப்பட்டுள்ள இப்போட்டிக்கு திறந்த மற்றும் பாடசாலை பிரிவுகளின் கீழ் படைப்புகளை சமர்ப்பிக்க முடியும்.
- ⏱️ வீடியோவின் அதிகபட்ச நேரம் – 2 நிமிடங்கள்
- 🌿 சுற்றாடல் நிகழ்வுகள், காலநிலை மாற்றம், உயிர்ப் பல்வகைமை, சுற்றாடல் மாசடைதல் உள்ளிட்ட தலைப்புகள்
- 🗣️ தமிழ், சிங்களம் அல்லது ஆங்கில மொழியில் படைப்புகளை சமர்ப்பிக்கலாம்
- 🔤 உரையாடல் உள்ள தமிழ் மற்றும் சிங்கள வீடியோக்களுக்கு ஆங்கில உபதலைப்புகள் தேவை
- 📱 கையடக்கத் தொலைபேசி உள்ளிட்ட பொருத்தமான பதிவு சாதனங்களை பயன்படுத்தலாம்
- 📧 Email: sobachalanashortvideos@gmail.com
📷 “சொபா சேயா” சுற்றாடல் புகைப்படப் போட்டி – 2026
- 🎯 போட்டித் தலைப்பு – “The Nature with an Artistic Eye”
- 🇱🇰 அனைத்து புகைப்படங்களும் இலங்கைக்குள் எடுக்கப்பட்டிருக்க வேண்டும்
- 📸 ஒருவரால் அதிகபட்சம் 3 புகைப்படங்களை சமர்ப்பிக்கலாம்
- 🖼️ JPG/JPEG வடிவத்தில் சமர்ப்பிக்க வேண்டும்
- 📐 புகைப்படத்தின் குறுகிய பக்கம் குறைந்தது 2000 pixels ஆக இருக்க வேண்டும்
- 🚫 Watermark அல்லது கையொப்பம் இடம்பெறக்கூடாது
- 📧 Email: sobaseyaphotography@gmail.com
📢 Official Full Details
Applicants are strongly advised to read the complete official competition conditions before preparing and submitting their entries.
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