Deadline- 31 December 2013
All eligible participants are invited to submit entries for Girls Impact the World Film Festival offered by Harvard College Social Innovation Collaborative and Connecther. The goal of this program is to either raise awareness or propose solutions to a variety of global women’s issues, including maternal health, microfinance initiatives, child-marriage, sex-trafficking and poverty alleviation.
Winners will receive a monetary prize, film distribution channels via SIC, Connecther and Creative Visions networks, as well as an internship opportunity at Creative Visions in Los Angeles. An official screening and red carpet will take place at the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, MA on February 22, 2014.
Thematic areas-
- Political participation
- Economic independence
- Domestic and gendered violence
- Maternal mortality
- Health care
- Poverty
- Teen & child marriage
- Sex trafficking and slavery
- Women and girls in media
- Women in Leadership
- Education for Girls and Women
Submissions required-
Students will submit 3–5 minute film on environmental issues that either-
- propose solutions to environmental issues that impact women and girls OR
- create awareness about environmental issues that impact women and girls. Maybe it’s a profile of a woman making a difference in the field, a law legislated by a woman, a specific problem that affects the economic activity of women in a given area, etc. How can these two issues come together to solve an environmental problem and advance women?
Eligibility & Criteria-
- Currently enrolled undergraduates (global) OR
- Full-time high school students
- The GITW Film Fest Competition is not open to any resident of the following countries: U.S. export regulations prohibit the export of goods and services to Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria. Therefore residents of these countries/regions are not eligible to participate.
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