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CitizenShift collaborators discuss youth-media workshops during Montreal Matters 2008...
Music, dance and poetry tell 5 representative stories about the struggle to make positive choices....
Artists and children discuss their experience with this community based art project. It's a celebration of art in action...
Students talk about gangs and how they are affected by this problem....
Carmen finds himself in a difficult situation and does not dare ask for help....
The students talk about the story they have written for the film and what it's really about....
Emmanuel becomes the target of street gangs who make fun of his 'retard school'. Focus students comment....
Students talk about parents not understanding them. In the fiction, Alicia feels very alone....
Focus students offer messages to parents. Emmanuel's brother tries to help, but Emmanuel wants to be left alone....
It is lunchtime at Focus school. The students talk about how they have been affected by racism....
Joel dreams of dungeons and dragons. Can dreams come true?...
When Monsoon was eight, she was addicted to makeup. Now she's nine and has chosen a different path. ...
An everyday moment is transformed into a terrible experience by homophobic taunting....
Coming out of the closet can be a difficult moment of emotional vulnerability and uncertain outcomes....
PACT participants take to the street to get the public's views on
youth gun violence....
The struggle and journey for a much needed community center by youth, and for youth, in Toronto's west-end neighbourhood...
The people behind reelout - with the aid of random passers-by - discuss the origins and significance of homophobia and ...
A police officer intervenes when a fight breaks out between rival gang members....
Friends stand up for a boy being bullied. ...
Not wanting to feel left out, a teenage girl goes to a party that she's been forbidden to attend....
The-Kiet loses his glasses and his vision of the world. His best friend Jason helps him tell this story of friends and p...
Breaking News: Kids are rising up to demand a skate park....
John and Lacey talk about addictions, life on the street and trying to live off the street. This film was made in 6 day...
A touching film about children's rights made by a 13 year old filmmaker. The film explores the issue of child exploitati...
- About the Reelout and the Workshop initiative
- ACTION FOR NEIGHBOURHOOD CHANGE
- FOCUS STUDENTS' EXPERIENCE IN MAKING THIS FILM
- Kristopher's story
- Note des Producteurs - FOCUS
- Producer's Note
- Producer's Note, on Turning Points
- PX Movie-Making Free Skool
- The Students, on the process of making Turning Points
- THIS IS US...OUR STORIES
- Today's Community
- TURNING POINTS: The Lyrics
- We Made This!: Media for a New Generation - a CITIZENShift event
- Who We Are and the Workshop Experience
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“WE SPEAK HERE” Film Festival CALL FOR ENTRIES | June 2012
by Preeti
Thu, 02/16/2012 - 05:17
“WE SPEAK HERE” Film Festival CALL FOR ENTRIES | June 2012
WHAT IS “WE SPEAK, HERE” : An event which aspires to bring an intimate view from life of another fellow being, reflecting our own challenges and opportunities for individual transformation - revealing underlying light & shadows of our present existence, and exploring life’s purpose leading to future. Share those stories that moved you and helped you discover views into life of human existence. Enable those life stories to reach global audiences and allow them to reward you for your contribution to their quest in life, with your art of story sharing.
To submit your film, please go through the following information:
CRITERIA:
1) Films on: The beauty & challenge within and its extension into personal relationships; Present viewpoints/values on intimacy, relationships, family structures and new ideas/visions about its evolutionary future; Documented case- studies of expressive art therapy; Individual's bio-psycho-spiritual health challenges (life experienced through or above it) and stories of recoveries, transformation, transcendence.
2) Any form: Films of any length (shorts and features).
3) Film projects that are open to non-exclusive distribution (online/webcast, worldwide).
4) Films which are in English or suitably sub-titled in English (films originally produced in regional languages are welcome). Multiple submissions are welcome.
5) Entries for selection are requested to be sent in DVD format only. Due to the volume of entries, the festival will not be able to return the submitted DVDs. To facilitate customs procedures, the entry package from overseas should be labeled "Only for cultural purpose, no commercial value."
6) For festival participation, films must fit the festival theme and criteria.
7) All films rewarded by the audience are showcased under 'Previous Winners' section of the site. A winning film can be removed upon request after a minimum of two years since the date of winning. As the festival is bound to follow international fund transfer formalities, all requested documents for reward remittance clearance will need to be furnished by all winning films.
SUBMISSION PROCESS:
Please fill the form at http://www.cultureunplugged.com/festival/submit.php and mail the DVD.
AWARDS/REWARDS:
PEOPLE'S CHOICE (Most Viewed):
$3000
POPULAR (Runner Up) :
$1000
PRAISED (Second Runner Up) :
$1000
UNDISCOVERED (Must View) :
$1000
FILM-MAKER'S CHOICE (Conscious Art) :
$3000
FESTIVAL LAUNCH DATE: JUNE 2012
Submission Date: To participate in this festival, please send the DVD latest by 7th MAY, 2012.
You can also send it later than the above-mentioned date, to participate in future festivals.
FESTIVAL VENUE: www.cultureunplugged.com
(At present, this venue is running the film festival: Spirit Enlightened - the festival to explore the spirit, the consciousness, the divine - the creative and healing journey of human soul)
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