The NHRC has extended the last date of sending entries
IH News Desk
NATIONAL, September 11, 2024: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has extended the deadline for the 10th Annual Human Rights Short Film Competition to September 30, 2024. This competition established in 2015 aims to recognize the cinematic and creative efforts of Indian citizens in promoting and protecting human rights.
The short films can be in English or any Indian language with English subtitles, with a minimum duration of 3 minutes and a maximum of 10 minutes. They can be documentaries, dramatizations of real stories, or fiction, and can be in any technical shooting and film making format, including animation.
The themes should be based on various socio-economic, cultural, and political rights. Here are the topics -
• Right to life, liberty, equality and dignity
• Covering issues specific to bonded and child labour, women & children’s rights,
• Rights in challenges of elderly persons
• Rights of persons with disability
• Manual scavenging, right to healthcare
• Issues of fundamental freedoms
• Human trafficking
• Domestic violence
• Human rights violation due to police atrocities
• Custodial violence and torture
• Socio-economic disparities
• Rights of Nomadic and Denotified Tribes
• Prison reforms
• Right to education
• Right to clean environment including environmental hazards impacting life on planet earth
• Right to work
• Right to equality before law
• Right to food and nutritional security
• Rights of LGBTQI+
• Human rights violation due to displacement on account of either man-made or natural calamity
• Celebrating human rights and values in Indian diversity
• Development initiatives improving life and living standards
The NHRC contest does not require an entry fee and has no limit on the number of entries. However, participants must submit each film separately along with a completed entry form. The terms and conditions can be downloaded from the NHRC website.
All necessary documents, including the film and entry form, can be sent via Google Drive to nhrcshortfilm[at]gmail[dot]com.
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