The International Film Festival for Environment, Health, and Culture is accepting film entries for different film categories until early 2015.
The film festival, which has an Indonesia-based secretariat, works to have a cleaner and better environment, to raise the quality of life, and to inspire intercultural dialogues to promote acceptance and understanding of people and diversity. It supports unique storytelling methods incorporated in the films.
Through the festival, the organizers hope to:
1. Raise awareness about the urgency to save the Earth.
2. Make our environment have a better atmosphere to live.
3. Provide information and uplift awareness worldwide about severe, acute, chronic, or rare disease.
4. Increase life span through better knowledge, self-respecting, and acceptance.
5. Encourage people with decreasing health who are struggling with pain and depression.
6. Promote intercultural dialogue to make a better acceptance through diversity amongst various cultures.
7. Fight the behavior of stereotyping and patronizing others.
8. Participate in the global community events celebrating the World Health Day (7 April), World Lupus Day (10 May), World Cultural Day (21 May), and World Environment Day (5 June).
Submissions have been open since July 16, 2014 and will close on April 20, 2015. The first regular deadline, November 24, 2014, has commenced, but a final regular deadline is still a month away, which will be on December 31, 2014. Other deadline dates have been marked for special entries, such as late entries, extended deadline, and special deadline.
Guidelines for Submission are the following, based on the chosen category:
International Feature Films:
Feature length narratives with a minimum running time of 60 minutes.
International movies with various spoken language are welcomed, but must be added with English subtitles.
International Short Films:
Short narrative films with run time of 59 minutes and below.
Documentary Feature:
Over 60 minutes in length
Documentary Short:
Run time of 59 minutes and below
Newcomer:
The festival welcomes newcomers in the movie industry. The film director must state that the movie is his or her third movie (or under) on his/her application.
For more information, visit The International Film Festival for Environment, Health, and Culture website.
