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Health for All Film Festival 2022: WHO calls for short films

Actress Sharon Stone to join jury of WHO the Health for All Film Festival 2022. The call for short films opens October 31.

ByIFP Bureau

Updated 29 Oct 2022, 11:49 pm

(Representational Image: Unsplash)
(Representational Image: Unsplash)

 

The World Health Organisation has called for short films (up to 8 minutes long) for the Health for All Film Festival 2022. The call opens on October 31 and will close on January 31. Actress Sharon Stone has confirmed that she will join the jury, the WHO said.

“The WHO Health for All Film Festival has become an incredible platform for telling powerful stories from around the world about people who face all kinds of health challenges, and those who devote their lives to improving health,” said WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “Films provide an authentic way for affected people to connect with others and contribute to a better understanding of the communities we serve.”

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WHO invites public institutions, nongovernmental organizations, communities of patients and of health workers, students in public health and film schools from around the world to submit their original short film.

The fourth edition of the WHO Health for All Film Festival is also open to independent film-makers, production companies and TV broadcasters, the WHO said in a release.

Around 70 shortlisted films will be presented to the public in April 2023 via WHO’s Youtube channel and website. From this list, a jury of distinguished professionals, artists, activists and senior experts at WHO will select the award-winning films, the release stated.

The WHO stated that three “GRAND PRIX” will be awarded, one for each main category, aligned with WHO’s major global public health goals: universal health coverage, health emergencies, better health and wellbeing. There will also be special prizes for films about climate change and health, sexual and reproductive health and rights, a student-produced film, and a very short film (1’ to 2’30” in length).

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Winning films from the festival are helping to increase awareness and support for key health issues worldwide, the WHO said. It said with an average of 1150 submissions each year from 110 countries, the films are increasingly being used by other institutions and partners for health promotion and education, and future synergies are being explored with WHO Academy and WHO Behavioural Insights programme.

“Storytelling is an engagement between people. It’s not just someone making a film, it’s someone watching a film,” said WHO Executive Director of Health Emergencies Programme, Dr Mike Ryan, film festival juror in 2021. “This is exactly how WHO should be transforming: Transforming how we engage with the world and this festival is just one example of how we can change our mindset.”

In honour of WHO’s 75th anniversary in 2023, this call for films is also exceptionally open to historical films and to recent films by students sharing their vision about current challenges and  future solutions to improve health. A special playlist will be created to highlight these testimonies, it added.

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