Empower Women Media (EWM) and the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation (RFBF) are pleased to host the Religious Freedom Film Competition.
The goal of the competition is to challenge filmmakers around the world to produce short films that showcase how inclusivity and multi-faith living in the workplace leads to innovation and thriving communities.
Special attention given to the rights of:
• Women
• Religious Minorities
• Displaced Peoples
As requested, storytellers may receive coaching to produce their films according to submission guidelines. The winning films will screen before world-class CEOs, UN partners and NGO leaders of the Global Business & Peace Awards in Tokyo. The grand prize winner will receive a cash prize and a trip to present her work at the awards (if travel regulations permit).
The 3-minute films should be artful and compelling explorations of the impact of freedom of belief and multi-faith living in the workplace and community, and how this helps empower women, religious minorities, and displaced communities. Filmmakers may choose to create short narratives of real-life business leaders who encourage people to bring their whole self to work.
Whether inspired by real-life events or fictional, animated, or experimental, the films should thoughtfully seek to affirm that inclusion, freedom of belief and multi-faith living are good for business.
RUNTIME
Short Films: 3 minutes
ACCEPTED GENRES
Documentaries, Narratives, Animation, Experimental, Montage
PLACE OF ORIGIN
Films may be developed from around the world.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE
2023
We look forward to your script and film submissions. For more information, contact shirin@visualstory.org or www.empowerwomen.media
2021 Religious Freedom Film Festival Highlights
People from around the world joined the 2021 Empower Women Media Film Festival and Awards, co-sponsored with the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation.