Human Rights Short Film Festival 2018

Please read the points outlined below carefully:

1. Theme of the film festival: Finding Bangladesh and South Asia in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 70 years later.

The theme is very broad. We strongly encourage you to read the Declaration and take inspiration from it to write your screenplay and produce your film.
Declaration: www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights

2. Type of films and length: Short films (fiction and documentary), maximum 10 minutes.

3. Age: Open for all. Anyone can submit their short film.

4. Subtitle: All films must be subtitled/dubbed in English. Subtitle should be included or embedded in the video file". Subtitle can NOT be a separate .srt file.)

5. Equipment: Films can be produced on mobile phones; no requirement to use professional film equipment. If anyone want to use professional film equipment, they are most welcome.

6. Production Quality: Minimum quality (720p) of projecting the film on a 16:9 big hall screen is appreciated. Film file should be a (.mp4) file format.

FAQs

1. What can I film with?
You can film with a mobile phone or a tablet. You can use accessories such as a microphone, stabilizer, filters, removable lenses, etc.
2. Duration
10 minutes maximum, including credits.

3. Theme
For this special edition, organized as part of celebrating 70 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, your film should be based on the theme Finding Bangladesh and South Asia in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 70 years later. The theme is very broad. We strongly encourage you to read the Declaration and take inspiration from it to write your screenplay and produce your film.

4. Film genre
All audio-visual forms are accepted: fiction, documentary and all genres, including stop-motion, time lapse, etc.

5. Can I enter an animated film?
Yes. Films using motion-capture techniques and/or special effects added during editing are more than welcome.

6. Can I add special effects during editing?
Yes

7. Can I show a brand on-screen?
No

8. Can several people be involved in making the film?
Yes.

9. Can I use external sound recording accessories?
Yes

10. Can I use pre-existing music?
Yes and no. If you want to use any music in your film, you must hold the appropriate rights or have been authorized to use it by the author or its rights holders. You may be required to prove this, if requested by our team. There is, however, lots of royalty-free music available for you to use. Please take a look at the YouTube audio library.

11. Can I enter more than one video into the competition?
Yes, you can enter as many films as you like, free of charge. When registering more than one film, please use the same username, email address and password for each one

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www.dufs.org
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