WHO- The Health for All Film Festival

Event Date: From 28 October, 2021 to 30 January, 2022
Venue: Online, Global
Event Provider: WHO

Films are a powerful way to raise awareness, improve understanding and encourage action so that this festival aims to contribute to health promotion and education about health. The festival’s aim is to recruit a new generation of film and video innovators to champion and promote global health issues.

The WHO Health for All Film Festival invites independent filmmakers, production companies, public institutions, NGOs, communities, students, and film schools from around the world to submit their original short films on health.

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Eligibility

Only short films completed between 1 January 2019 and 30 January 2022 are eligible for the Film Festival 3^rd edition.
Any production made by United Nations staff members or exclusively done with UN funding is not eligible.
A submission can be in any language; if the film is not in English, English subtitles must be included.

Benefits

i) Each of the three categories will have a jury made up of external advisers drawn from the arts as well as WHO technical experts. The jury will watch a maximum of 15 selected videos for each category. Some additional shortlists of 10 films could be created towards special prizes described below. The shortlisted videos will be announced in March 2022 and screened online for public viewing, likely in the spring and/or early summer. The WHO Director-General will choose the final winners in each category based on the juries’ recommendations. Winners will be informed confidentially in April or early May, prior to a public announcement.
ii) Each prize will be constituted of a trophy and a grant as follows:
(1) There will be three GRAND PRIX, one for each category described in section 2 above. Each GRAND PRIX will be a grant of US$ 10,000.
(2) In addition, juries can nominate special prizes (listed below) for short-listed videos not receiving a GRAND PRIX. From this pool, the Director-General can choose up to three special prizes, each receiving a grant of US$ 5,000.
The winners of GRAND PRIX are not eligible for special prizes. In addition, there will be only one special prize per candidate.
2-1 STUDENT PRIZE: for videos of 3 to 8 minutes long produced by students who are legal adults in their country and enrolled in formal education, including audio-visual and film-making schools.
2-2 FILM ABOUT HEALTH INNOVATION: videos of 3 to 8 minutes long with a story in line with the content for this special prize described on the festival website: www. who. int/film-festival
2-3 FILM ABOUT REHABILITATION: videos of 3 to 8 minutes long with a story in line with the content for this special prize described on the festival website: www. who. int/film-festival
2-4 VERY SHORT FILM PRIZE: for videos of 1 minute to 2 minutes 30 seconds long with a story in line with the content of the main three categories and/or the content of other special prizes described in the festival website: www. who. int/film-festival
iii) Note: There might be a ‘public choice’ process in which members of the public are invited to choose their favorite video through an online promotion/selection process. The public choice would likely be during the May-June 2022 time frame.