[YL] FW: Call for submissions: Adobe Youth Voices/Human Rights Watch International Film Festival

[Tony Streit]

YouthLearn subscribers:

For those of you who are working in youth media, here¹s a great opportunity
to showcase your work, supported through our friends at Adobe Systems
Incorporated.  For some time now, YouthLearn has been working with with
Adobe in the development of their Adobe Youth Voices initiative, an
international effort to promote youth media and ³creating with purpose.²
You can find out more at:

http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/philanthropy/youthvoices

Best,

Tony


Tony Streit
Director, The YouthLearn Initiative
Education Development Center, Inc.
55 Chapel Street, Newton, MA 02458
phone 617.618.2778   fax 617.332.4318
tstreit at edc.org
http://www.youthlearn.org

 
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Human Rights Watch International Film Festival Call for Submissions:
 
YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE

*Founding Presenter: Adobe Youth Voices*
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*Deadline for submissions: January 22, 2008
 
       
Calling Youth Media Producers!
 
The Human Rights Watch International Film Festival and Adobe Youth Voices
are looking for youth produced works on human rights from around the globe
to screen in our newly established YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE program.
 
We're looking for film, video and animated works made by youth (ages 19 and
younger) that focus on human rights and social issues like:
Equality, civil rights, children's rights, women's rights, international
justice, HIV/AIDS, the environment, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender rights,
health, the environment, war and conflict, freedom of expression,
counterterrorism, gender, refugees, immigration, economic, social, and
cultural rights and more.
 
Selected films will travel to:
* Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, New York : June 9-16 2008
* Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, Boston: Fall 2008
* Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, London : March 2009
* Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, Boston: Spring 2009
* Selected films will be included in the 2009 Traveling Film Festival
* Films will be added to the Adobe Youth Voices and Human Rights Watch
websites
* And in the teacher's lending library for the Human Rights Watch
International Film Festival High School Program
 
 
*HOW DO I SUBMIT MY FILM?

Submitting your film to YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE is easy!  First, read the
attached CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS or visit our website at:
http://www.hrw.org/iff/2007/YouthProducingChangeCall.html
 
If you'd like to submit your film please follow the following steps:
1. Please email the information listed below to Jennifer Nedbalsky at
nedbalj at hrw.org by January 22, 2007. To submit your film please include all
of the following information in the text/body of your email with YOUTH
PRODUCING CHANGE in the subject line*:
* Director (or production group/community organization) name
* Film Title
* Film synopsis (a short paragraph summary of the film.)
* Filmmaker bio (or a brief description of the producing organization.)
* Genre: Tell us if the film is a documentary, PSA, animation, experimental
film, fiction or narrative.
* Country where the film was produced
* Year of production
* Film's running time and format (how long is the film & did you shoot the
piece on video, or film?)
* Complete contact information (website, email address, mailing address and
phone number.)
   *NOTE: PLEASE do not send attachments as we can not open them
 
2. The screening committee will contact you if they are interested in
screening a VHS or DVD copy of your film/video/animation. After reading the
information you submit, we will be in touch to let you know if we'd like for
you to send us a copy of your film/video/animation.
 
3. If we decide we would like to screen the film in YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE,
we will be in touch with you to invite the film to screen in our festival.
 
Please feel free to be in touch with Jennifer Nedbalsky at (212) 216-1247 or
nedbalj at hrw.org if you have any questions or would like further information.
 
 
Thanks! We look forward to seeing your films!
 
Best Regards, 
 
Jennifer Nedbalsky 
Miguel Salinas
Program Manager    
Program Manager
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
Adobe Youth Voices


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