Call for submissions: Youth Producing Change Film Competition (Global)

Human Rights Watch (HRW) International Film Festival and Adobe Youth Voices is calling for short (15 minutes or less) film, video, and animated works made by youth (ages 19 and younger) that focus on human rights and social issues that include:

* Equality
* Civil rights
* Children’s rights
* Women’s rights
* International justice
* HIV/AIDS
* Environment
* Lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender rights, health
* War and conflict
* Freedom of expression
* Counter-terrorism
* Gender
* Refugees
* Immigration
* Economic
* Social
* Cultural rights
(issues in bold may be of particular interest to YAHAnet members/visitors)

DVD (preferred) or VHS formats are eligible. Entries using NTSC or PAL are accepted, but not Mini DVD format. All music and other rights must be cleared for non-exclusive educational, online, broadcast, and theatrical distribution. Please check out The Center for Social Media’s Copyright & Fair Use guidelines for more information on copyright.

Selected films will travel to London, United Kingdom, and New York City, United States!

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS JANUARY 15, 2011

All necessary info to apply can be found here
Last year's winning films can be viewed here

(all film festival info taken from http://www.comminit.com/en/node/267193/348 and http://www.hrw.org/en/iff/youth-producing-change/call-for-submissions)