UNAFF Traveling Film Festival shows their best documentary films for the first time in the Arab world.
UNAFF has reached its 13th session, the current one was originally conceived to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was created with the help of members of the Stanford Film Society and United Nations Association Midpeninsula Chapter, a grassroots, community-based, nonprofit organization. The 13th UNAFF will be held from October 22-30, 2010 in Palo Alto, Stanford University, East Palo Alto and San Francisco. The theme for this year is “POPULATION – MIGRATION – GLOBALIZATION.”
UNAFF celebrates the power of films and videos dealing with human rights, environmental themes, women’s issues, protection of refugees, homelessness, racism, children, disease control, universal education, war and peace. In the past twelve years, UNAFF has screened some exceptional documentaries, many of which went on to win prestigious awards, among them fourteen films that received Oscar nominations and five that won the Academy Award for Best Documentary. These films often elicit a very personal and emotional response that encourages dialogue and action, by humanizing global and local problems. Last year UNAFF jurors reviewed over 520 submissions. Our final program consisted of fifty films related to issues from Afghanistan, Australia, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Burma, Canada, China, Colombia, Congo, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Ghana, Guatemala, Jordan, Kenya, India, Iraq, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Nigeria, North Korea, Norway, Pakistan, Palestine, Russia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Uganda, the UK, the US, Vietnam and Zimbabwe.
Encouraged by the overwhelmingly positive response from our audience and the media, we established in 2000 a Traveling Film Festival (TFF) which is typically organized with universities, UNA Chapters and community organizations across the US and internationally. So far the UNAFF TFF has taken place in San Francisco, Berkeley, Monterey, Santa Cruz, Davis, Saratoga, Sonoma, Sebastopol, San Diego, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Honolulu, Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington DC, New York, Burlington, New Hampshire, Bellevue, Durham at Duke University, New Haven at Yale University, Waukesha at University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, Houston at Rice University, Boston and Cambridge at Harvard University and internationally in Paris, Venice, Belgrade and Phnom Penh.
For the first time in the Arab world, Abu Dhabi and especially Anasy Documentary Awards will host the festival screening of the best documentary films on a special night during the festival.
Prix Jeunesse International Festival: In this festival, the best documentary films about children will be screened for the new additional category “Child in our eyes” Award in the second session for Anasy Documentary Awards 2010.
“Prix Jeunesse International very much looks forward to present the “suitcase for kids” at the 2010 Anasy Documentary Awards, and hopes to build a close & fruitful cooperation with this festival.”
Prix Jeunesse International organization was established in Germany in 1964 and aims at promoting the good quality of children programs all over the world. It aims also at increasing their awareness and knowledge of their culture. |
