This year, we mark the 62nd anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the 38th year of the Declaration of Martial Law in the Philippines and the 24th anniversary of the Edsa Revolution yet the language of human rights remains a lingering hope of our nation.
This year, the country also faces a period of uncertainty and change. The shadow of political turmoil, extra judicial killings, environmental degradation and climate change, hunger, war, corruption, job insecurity, gender discrimination, homelessness, unaccessible health care and extreme poverty loom over the nation. Every day we are faced with making difficult decisions that affect our every day rights and freedoms. Most often than not, human rights become a privilege of those who can afford to buy them, but not for those who are marginalized by society.
The challenge for the Filipinos is to ensure that these fundamental human rights remain inalienable, indivisible and universal. The struggle for the everyday “Juan” is to assert these rights and keep it alive amidst the threat of practical politics and economic realities.
The Active Vista Film Festival is an avenue to promote a vision of society that respects, upholds and values the dignity, rights and freedom of its people.
The Active Vista Film Festival challenges to define a spectrum in the use of cinema as a powerful tool in shaping the consciousness of a new generation into the importance of knowing and understanding human rights as an integral foundation of responsible citizenship and nation building.
Active Vista encourages critical thinking and dynamism in views as fundamental requirements in addressing methods and directions of social transformation. It allows an opportunity to debate, discuss and shape society as we arrive at a collective understanding of human rights as the backbone of the development of a nation. Active Vista aspires to bring its audience to this understanding through the cinematic experience itself - the ability of cinema to convey a thousand meanings with a single visual imagery. By shaping a revolution on the minds of the Filipino audience, Active Vista becomes a step towards their education as citizens.
While Active Vista recognizes that no film, no song, no painting, no novel or no poem has ever stopped a tank, prevented a bullet, fed a hungry child or overthrown a corrupt government, the power of every art form cannot be rivaled. While art may not change the world, it can change the way we view the world. True revolution begins in the imagination.
The Active Vista Film Festival is not your ordinary film festival. It presents a dynamic vision that empowers its public towards relevant social change.
We are looking for film/s which tackles about Human Rights. Grand Prize is P30,000.00!
Submit your entries before or on November 12,2010.
For more info, visit www.activevista.com
