August 7, 2019
Ability Foundation is organising a movie making competition on the
theme – An Inclusive Society for Persons with Disabilities. Entries are open
until 22 August.
It’s called 60 Seconds to Fame and its a competition where you
have to communicate the theme in just one minute. The theme is An Inclusive
Society for Persons with Disabilities and it is being organised by
Ability Foundation that tries to come up with innovative
themes to promote an inclusive society.
Entrants have to shoot their one minute film and submit their entries before
22 August. Through the competition, Ability Foundation aims to
create awareness about the disabled community in India and the challenges
they face.
The festival was conceived as an exercise in sensitising society. Our aim
was to introduce awareness and also maximise on it. A national competition
would serve the purpose to an extent, to induce people at large and
sensitise people in particular to think on the concept of inclusion. And
express this concept creatively and that too in just one minute. It would
also mean recognition at an International Film Festival. It would be a
“creative chasing of the pot of cinematic gold. The words 60 seconds were
deliberate too. They had the onomatopoeic ticking effect, producing in
their sound a sense of urgency. – Jayshree Raveendran, AbilityFest
Chairperson, Founder-Director, Ability Foundation
Through such events, Ability Foundation hopes to lift the veil that separates
society, keeping people with disabilities out. Not being able to understand
their right to equality and lack of empathy are the main barriers in the path
for inclusion.
The films that are selected or short listed will be screened as part of the
India International Disability Film Festival-AbilityFEST2019
at Sathyam Cinemas in Chennai. Well-known actor
Actor Revathy, who is a director and trustee, calls the 60
Seconds segment her favourite part at the AbilityFest.
”As a person from the film industry myself, I find it a very interesting
and enjoyable experience to watch the several ways in which different people
creatively approach the same theme. Some of the films had thoughts that were
amazing. Some conveyed the message in a very simple way, while others
visualised a simple thought in a very striking way”.
So, if you have an idea about what inclusion should be about, get creative
with your cameras.
GET IN TOUCH: To know more about the competition visit the
Ability Foundation website : http://www.abilityfoundation.org. Or
EMAIL: fame@abilityfoundation.org or call on
+91 89396 75544, 044 2452 0016
Source: https://newzhook.com/story/capture-the-theme-of-inclusion-in-this-filmmaking-contest
