The Artistic Production Equipment of the  X International Festival  of Cinema of Human Rights DerHumALC (Human Rights in Latin America and the Carib) and the Civil Association   El Agora,  invite you to enroll your short feature in the Concourse of pre-selection of the next Festival Edition, in the category of Best Social Practices.
Social Practices presented in audiovisual shape are experiences that tell stories of places, people, problems, allies, and solutions that contribute to improve the quality of life of a determined community.

Dates and inscriptions
The Festival will take place  between April 23th to 27th in Santiago del Estero province. And from May 8th to 14th of 2008 in Buenos Aires city.
We will be receiving short features till February  29th.

Which characteristics should the short features have?
These shorts should not be institucional shaped or propagandistic material. They should be stories , human stories and visual pieces that can explain the developed experience.
We shall receive any video production, short features of Social Practices that are no longer than 45 minutes and should be presented in copies of DVD or DvCam.
There is no kind of fee for the inscription.
The bases and conditions are in the web site: www.derhumalc.org.ar
http://www.derhumalc.org.ar (Calling , Bases and inscription file)
Alternatively can be sent to El Agora.
Laprida 175 CP5000. Córdoba - Argentina

Who can present short features?
Short features can be experiences made by Organizations of Civil Society , Foundations, groups of organizad people, academic instituions, privated sector or particular individuals that are developing Best Social Practices.

Short Features Introduction and Workshop about Best Social Practices?
The chosen experiences will participate in the whole competition in the different categories of the Human Rights Festival. The intention is to make visible and convey cultural and social values. We shall be having a Discussion Space where debates will be promoted, talks with the directors and involved actors.
The jury will be integrated by members of the Multimedia  Institute:  DerHumALC, El Agora, and a group of renamed movie makers in charge of the pre-selecetion of the best Short Features of Best Social Practices. 

What is a Best Social Practice?
Best Social Practices are contributions determined to improve life conditions. United Nations   and international community have defined them as initiatives that have an important impact in the best quality of life of people, they are the result of an effective work among  the State, private organisms and civil organizations altogether. They are experiences socially, culturally, environmentally  and economically  capable of being achieved.
We invite you to visit the web site of the El Agora and expose your experience to the Internacional Prize of Dubai 2008 about  Best Social Practices to improve life conditions , given by United Nations www.elagora.org.ar

Why to register in audiovisual way a Best Social Practice ?
From Civil Association El Ágora, we believe that documentary production is a tool of communication of artistic audiovisual quality highly effective to encourage others with motivations, experiences and learned lessons. Because of the richness of the subjects and life stories, the short feature allows to convey in a direct way the values that promote a Best Social Practice.

Why to document a Best Social Practice ?
Because “human beings learn better from stories” .
To communicate a social project is also a way of public engagement.  We consider that bettering  the communication of social projects has to do with the need of breaking isolation and social fragmentation. And if the idea is to search social gathering, we have to start by sharing, or at least trying to know and understand, the interests of each one. “One of the ways of intervention in this subject is to be familiar with which is strange and making strange the familiar subject”.

Iternational Festival of Human Rights Cinema
The Festival DerHumALC – Human Rights Cinema Festival- is founder member of the Human Rights Cinema Net (www.hrfn.org), an association of nineteen Cinema Festivals that include the International Human Rights Watch Film Festival of New York City, the Amnesty International Film Festival of Amsterdam, the One World Festival of Prague and the Seoul Human Rights Film Festival, among others. In occasion of our VIII edition , we founded together with partners of Latin American countries  such as Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Brazil and  Cuba the first Latin American Net of Social Cinema and Human Rights.

What is  El Agora?
Such as the public square where ancient Greeks gathered together to dialogue and debate.
El Agora looks for creating and  strengthen practices that help to foresee and build better conditions of civic life.  El Ágora is the mesh of South America of the  Ibero American Forum of Best Social Practices, partner of the programme of Best Social Practices of the United Nations - Habitat. Responsible in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay, of the " Internacional Prize of  Dubai about Best Social Practices to improve life conditions",  given by United Nations.   www.elagora.org.ar

Contacts Data

DerHumALC International Film Festival on Human Rights
Callao 441 10°C (2° cuerpo)
C1022AAE – Ciudad de Buenos Aires – Argentina
tel:(+54 11) 4375 4450 / 4328 2978
fax: (+54 11) 4375 4450
coordinacion@derhumalc.org.ar
www.derhumalc.org.ar