Human Rights Watch seek youth media submissions

The Human Rights Watch International Film Festival and Adobe Youth Voices are looking for youth produced works on human rights from around the globe to screen in our newly established YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE program.

They are looking for film, video and animated works made by youth (ages 19 and younger) that focus on human rights and social issues like: Equality, education, civil rights, children's rights, women's rights, international justice, HIV/AIDS, the environment, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender rights, health, the environment, war and conflict, freedom of expression, counterterrorism, gender, refugees, immigration, economic, social, and cultural rights and more.

Deadline: February 8, 2008

Selected films will travel to:

• Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, New York : June 9-16 2008
• Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, Boston : Fall 2008
• Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, London : March 2009
• Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, San Francisco : Spring 2009
• Selected films will be included in the 2009 Traveling Film Festival
• Films will be added to the Adobe Youth Voices and Human Rights Watch websites
• And in the teacher's lending library for the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival High School Program

How to submit:

Visit the Human Rights Watch website for submission details - www.hrw.org/iff

Please feel free to get in touch with Jennifer Nedbalsky at (212) 216-1247 or nedbalj@hrw.org if you have any questions or would like further information.

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