Boresha Afya, Jenga Jamii Audio- Visual Festival aims at bringing the Creative Industry in Kenya on Board in supporting Health Promotion in Kenya. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed existing gaps in the health sector in this case, the need for collaboration between public and private entities in the production of Audio-Visual content aimed at facilitating health communication and education in the country. Creatives will be expected to submit into various categories of Audio- Visual Content that will be their contribution to the National Campaign and winners will be awarded at the launch of the online festival gala screening to be held on December 12th 2020.
The Festival will accept short Audio-Visual Material not more than 15 minutes.

About the Division of Health Promotion Kenya

The Division of Health Promotion (DHP) is one of the technical divisions of the Ministry of Health. The mandate of the division is to provide leadership and coordination of health promotion programmes and activities in Kenya.

Background on Health Education in the midst of COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic was first discovered in China in December, 2019 and has continued to spread in other parts of the world. In this regard, the MOH has been tasked to shift focus towards the fight of the pandemic by involving the division of Health Promotion in formulating a health education plan to aid in the fight of the disease. At the same time , the Ministry is keen to keep general health education and public health awareness going on in a holistic nature.

Objectives

1. Communicate health education/capacity building efforts to stakeholders.
2. To identify capacity building needs and resources.
3. Facilitate communication opportunities relating to health education.
4. To provide specialized expertise/resources on a specific issue that arises.

Awards & Prizes

Winners will be announced and awarded on an online Gala Awards Ceremony hosted by the Ministry of Health, Division of Health Promotion in Partnership with other Development Partners.
Official Awards of Ministry of Health Kenya will be in form of Trophies and Certificates.
On Occasion of this edition of the Audio Visual Festival, Jurors comprising of Leading film Writers, Directors, Producers, Health Messaging Experts will evaluate and then select the best pieces in each categories, selected materials will then be subjected to a public online voting system where Kenyans will vote for their most favorite Items. Selected items will be screened in an online Festival from 10th- 11th December 2020 which will be crowned with an online Gala awards ceremony on 12th December 2020.

Rules & Terms

1. At this time , we are only requesting online submissions and all materials must be viewable online.
2. By Submitting your Audio Visual Material to the festival, you agree to allow your film to be screened by the festival during the festival run, for which you are submitting at no charge to the festival
3. By submitting to the festival , you are admitting copyright ownership of everything submitted
4.The Festival reserves the right to disqualify any submission at any time , if there is any question of ownership, copyright infringement or any sign of disrespect ( in any form of Media) to the festival or its representatives
5. There is no premiere policy , they may have screened at other film festivals and/or online
6. All Audio Visual Material MUST contain English and/or Swahili subtitles files
7. No submission fee will be charged for this festival
8. The Festival will inform all submitting parties if their film has been successful or not. Successful submissions will receive important information on the festival, press and publicity, guest accreditation, contact information and how to make the most of participating in the festival.
9. Productions must have been produced not earlier than January 2020
10. All submitted productions should be downloadable
11. Selected submissions will be streamed online to allow for public voting
12. Producers to take responsibility that all submitted work has been copyrighted, the organizers shall not liable for any copyright infringement

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1. Producers of the selected Audio Visual Materials must provide HD package in order to be screened at the festival. The Item must be clearly labelled.
2. Producers of selected pieces must acknowledge that the MOH reserves the right to promote the productions on any medium using both images and video that you provide.
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