BACKGROUND
Cine Veritas: A Human Rights Film Festival is an annual undertaking of the UP Film Institute (UPFI) in celebration of the International Human Rights Day on December 10. The UPFI, in its mandate to promote film education and appreciation, seeks to promote a greater understanding of issues that confront contemporary realities by presenting films with a distinctive human rights theme. Each year filmmakers struggle at great odds, short finances, and threatening politics to bring to the screen urgent stories of human struggles and triumphs. The yearly festival showcases stories pertaining to relevant social issues from all over the world through the eyes of committed and courageous filmmakers. This festival is dedicated to bringing these stories to our communities so that the full-range of challenges facing people may be brought to light and thus better understood and addressed.
The films featured in this festival help put a human face to the threats to individual freedom and dignity, and celebrate the human spirit and intellect to prevail.
The UPFI has in the past worked with the Amnesty International-Pilipinas and other human rights advocates to promote their campaigns against violation of basic human rights and freedom by increasing the visibility of contemporary human rights and development issues through the powerful medium of cinema. Through the showcasing of selected films and facilitating panel discussions, it contributes to the development of socially responsible behavior and activism at grass roots level.
OBJECTIVES
1. To develop and sustain yearly the human rights film festival
2. To increase awareness and dialogues on contemporary human rights and development issues by showcasing high-quality films and documentaries, and fora on key global and national issues on human rights.
3. To encourage young and veteran filmmakers to be involved in the production of more meaningful human rights films.
4. To encourage audiences to take concrete steps for action to stop the cycle of violence against women inside or outside of their home, and in conflict or post conflict situations.
5. To create a network of partnership among UN Agencies, local and national governmental authorities, academia, cultural institutions, media, private sector, civil society, donor communities, development agencies and NGOs for long-term cooperation in the field of human rights education.
TARGET BENEFICIARIES/AUDIENCE
Students and faculty of the University of the Philippines, other colleges and universities, filmmakers, media practitioners, representatives from NGOs and GOs, civic agencies, youth and cause-oriented groups, legislators, political, socio-cultural and artistic institutions, and the general public.
CONTACT
Cine Veritas email: cineveritasfestival@gmail.com
UP Film Institute e-group: upfilminstitute@yahoogroups.com
University of the Philippines Film Institute
(Member, CILECT/International Association of Film and Television Schools)
Academic Programs and Research
Plaridel Hall, Ylanan Road, UP Diliman, Quezon City
Tel: 9818500 (UP Trunkline) local 2669, 2670; 9206863 (Telefax)
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Tel: 9818500 (UP Trunkline) local 4286, 4289; 9262722 (Telefax); 9263640 (Cinema Hotline); 9250286
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