A specialized agency of the United Nations, the World Health Organization (WHO) is responsible for international public health.
It's initiative Health for All Film Festival (HAFF) has been recruiting filmmakers for the past 3 years to make films about health and promote health awareness.
Benefits and Program Details:
- In submitting a short film, the copyright owner of the film has to choose one category of competition among the three described below, which relates to WHO’s global health goals set out in the Thirteenth General Programme of Work (GPW13):
- Universal Health Coverage (UHC) – films about mental health, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and other UHC stories linked to communicable diseases not part of emergencies;
- Health Emergencies – films about health emergencies, such as COVID-19, Monkeypox, Ebola, disaster relief and health in conflict settings;
- Better Health and Well-being – films about environmental and social determinants of health as well as other non-medical conditions for good health, such as nutrition, sanitation, pollution, gender, physical activity, and/or health promotion or health education.
- Each winner will receive from WHO a trophy, a certificate and a payment of their copyright so that WHO could promote their film on its channels and events (see festival rules below).
- Candidates can submit short documentaries, fiction films or animation films of three to eight minutes in length for the categories below, with exception of the Very Short Film category dedicated to shorter clips made for social media platforms.
Check the application link for further details.
Eligibility:
- Only short films about health completed between 1 January 2020 and 31 January 2023 are eligible for the Film Festival 4th edition. On the occasion of WHO’s 75th anniversary in 2023, the film festival would accept some older films about public health historical achievements which should be reformatted to meet the guidelines in the festival rules.
- All types of artistic approaches are welcome: animation, fiction, documentary, and video art.
- The length of each film submitted has to respect the format described in the rules.
- A submission can be in any language; if the film is not in English, English subtitles must be included in the frame.
- Any production made by United Nations staff members or exclusively done with UN funding is not eligible.
- Commercial/corporate films advertising for a product, device, or private business service, won’t be selected.
Check the application link for further details.
Application Deadline: 31 January 2023
Application Link:
Interested applicants can check this link for details - https://cutt.ly/704zybB
