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INTRODUCTION

The World Health Organization invites independent film-makers, production companies, public health institutions, NGOs, communities, students, and film schools from round the world to submit their original short films to the 2nd Health for All festival .

Launched in 2019/2020, the festival aims to recruit a replacement generation of film and video innovators to champion global health issues. Films are a strong thanks to raise awareness, improve understanding, and encourage action.

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The inaugural Health for All festival edition accepted 1,300 short film submissions from quite 110 countries. Incredible content was curated and therefore the winners got a platform to showcase their work.

Be a part of the Health for All Film Festival! it’s liberal to participate.

Please visit the festival website on www.who.int/film-festival to find out more about previous official selection, winners, jury composition and agenda, while our terms and conditions also are copied below.

AWARD AND PRIZE
In submitting a brief film, the copyright owner of the film has got to choose one category of competition among the three described below, which relates to WHO’s global health goals began within the Thirteenth General Programme of labor (GPW13):

1. Universal health coverage (UHC) – films about psychological state , noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and other UHC stories linked to communicable diseases not a part of emergencies;

2. Health emergencies – films about health emergencies, like COVID-19, Ebola, disaster relief and health in conflict-settings;

3. Better health and well-being – films about environmental and social determinants of health, like nutrition, sanitation, pollution, gender, and/or about health promotion or health education.

Each of the three categories will have a jury made from external advisers drawn from the humanities also as WHO technical experts. The jury will watch a maximum of 15 selected videos for every category. These shortlisted videos are going to be announced in March 2022 and screened online for public viewing, likely within the spring and/or early summer.

Each prize will include a trophy and a grant as follows:

-There will be three Grand Prix , one for every category, each Grand Prix will receive a grant of US$ 10,000.

-In addition, juries can nominate special prizes (listed below) for short-listed videos not receiving a Grand Prix . From this pool, the Director-General can form to 3 special prizes, each receiving a grant of US$ 5,000.

-The winners of Grand Prix aren’t eligible for special prizes. additionally , there’ll be just one special prize per candidate. The special prizes are:

•Special Prize on HEALTH INNOVATION – films presenting one or more innovative solutions with a proven positive impact within the health and wellbeing of individuals . These can include social innovations (e.g. new or improved approaches or ways of working); digital solutions; and new technological solutions – or a mixture thereof – that promote health and wellbeing. We are trying to find stories that capture how health innovations have the potential to deal with people’s health needs and positively change lives anywhere within the world, including within the most vulnerable settings.

Please note that, as per our festival rules, commercial/corporate film advertising for a replacement product, device, or private business service, won’t be selected.

•Special Prize on REHABILITATION – films telling stories about the life-changing impact that rehabilitation has on people’s lives. Rehabilitation addresses the impact of a health condition on a person’s lifestyle and ensures that folks remain as independent as possible while continuing to participate in education, work and meaningful life roles. most of the people would require rehabilitation at some point in their lives, whether or not they have experienced an injury, disease, illness, or decline in function with age. COVID-19 highlights that rehabilitation is additionally required within the continuum of look after people with infectious diseases.

•STUDENT film prize – films produced by students who can justify that the films were made during their university studies.

RULES AND TERMS
By applying to the Health for All festival (the “ film festival”), you’re deemed to possess read and consented to those rules in their entirety. Any candidate who will have a movie shortlisted towards the official selection presented to the general public will need to endorse these rules with their signature at end of this document to verify the choice of their film.

-Your application must suits the terms of https://filmfreeway.com/ (“FilmFreeway”) and these rules. These rules, and therefore the terms of FilmFreeway, govern your submission and participation within the festival altogether respects. within the event of any conflict between these rules and therefore the terms of FilmFreeway, these rules control.

-Submissions not in line with these rules won’t be considered for selection, and can be rejected by the planet Health Organization (“WHO”), which is under no obligation to tell an applicant of this rejection (though WHO may provide such information at its discretion).

-You may withdraw your entry at any time on written request to WHO via FilmFreeway.

1) General terms of participation

i) If you’re otherwise eligible, you’ll submit one video only to the festival for consideration, freed from charge, through the web platform on FilmFreeway at https://filmfreeway.com/HealthForAllFilmFestival, subject to those rules.
ii) the amount for submissions is from 28 October 2021 through 30 January 2022.
iii) Only videos created between 1 January 2019 and 30 January 2022 are eligible.
iv) The content of all submissions must address health issues experienced by a private or an area , national or international group or population. therein respect, consistent with WHO’s Constitution, health may be a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. The content of proposed videos could therefore include or address the social or environmental determinants of health.
v) Every submission must meet one among the three categories outlined below.

2) What sort of videos are often proposed?

The main competition categories for the third Health for All festival are going to be aligned with WHO’s main global goals for public health. For submitting a brief film, the copyright owner of the film must choose one category of competition among the three described below. for every of those three Grand Prix categories, candidates can submit short documentaries, animation films or fiction films of three to eight minutes long .

• Category 1 – Universal health coverage (UHC) – films about psychological state , noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and other UHC stories linked to communicable diseases not a part of emergencies;

• Category 2 – Health emergencies – films about health emergencies, as an example COVID-19, Ebola, disaster relief and health in war-zones;

• Category 3 – Better health and well-being – films about environmental and social determinants of health, like nutrition, sanitation, pollution, gender, and/or about health promotion or health education.

3) What are the technical requirements for submissions?

i) Every video submitted must be a final edited product: rough-cuts won’t be considered for the choice .
ii) Submissions don’t got to are already distributed to be eligible.
iii) A Submission are often in any language; if it’s not in English, English subtitles must be included.
iv) Every submission must be in horizontal format of a full HD le (1920 X 1080 pixels) compressed with MP4 codec, data-rate of 10 MB/s. just in case a video is produced in square or vertical formats, the file should be inserted within the horizontal full HD format as described with black bands on left and right sides.
v) WHO takes no responsibility for submissions that are lost, delayed, misdirected or incomplete or can’t be delivered or entered for any technical or other reason. Proof of delivery of the entry isn’t proof of receipt.

4) What are the awards for winning submissions?

i) Each of the three categories will have a jury made from external advisers drawn from the humanities also as WHO technical experts. The jury will watch a maximum of 15 selected videos for every category. Some additional shortlists of 10 films might be created towards special prizes described below. These shortlisted videos are going to be announced in March 2021 and screened online for public viewing, likely within the spring and/or early summer. (See section 7-i below). The WHO Director-General will choose the ultimate winners in each category supported the juries’ recommendations. Winners are going to be informed confidentially in April or early May, before a public announcement.
ii) Each prize are going to be constituted of a trophy and a grant as follows:
(1) there’ll be three Grand Prix , one for every category described in section 2 above. Each Grand Prix are going to be a grant of US$ 10,000.
(2) additionally , juries can nominate special prizes (listed below) for short-listed videos not receiving a Grand Prix . From this pool, the Director-General can form to 3 special prizes, each receiving a grant of US$ 5,000.
The winners of Grand Prix aren’t eligible for special prizes. additionally , there’ll be just one special prize per candidate.
2-1 STUDENT PRIZE: for videos of three to eight minutes long produced by students who are legal adults in their country and enrolled in formal education, including audio-visual and film- making schools.
2-2 FILM ABOUT HEALTH INNOVATION: for videos of three to eight minutes long with a story in line with the content for this special prize described within the festival website: www.who.int/film-festival
2-3 FILM ABOUT REHABILITATION: for videos of three to eight minutes long with a story in line with the content for this special prize described within the festival website: www.who.int/film-festival
iii) Note: There could be a ‘public choice’ process during which members of the general public are invited to settle on their favorite video through a web promotion/selection process. this is able to likely be during the May-June 2021 time-frame .

5) Who can apply for the festival?

i) Submissions could also be made by audiovisual production or broadcasting institutions, non-governmental organizations, public institutions, schools, universities or individuals 18 years or older. Individuals under 18 years aged may participate with the permission of their parents or legal guardians. If the film of an entrant under 18 years aged is chosen as a semifinalist or finalist, and written parental or guardian permission can’t be provided, WHO has the proper to reject the entry. within the event an applicant may be a minor (under 18), the term “you” in these rules refers to the applicant’s trustee .
ii) Every application must name the individual (or group of individuals), because the author(s) of the video.
iii) just in case of a gaggle of authors, all names and ages of all authors must be listed. This group are going to be considered as one applicant within the copyright rules described below, also as for the grant/ prize for winners, and during this case the term “you” in these rules refers to every such applicant as a private and as a gaggle of applicants.
iv) Every applicant or group of applicants can submit just one video to the present festival. Videos could also be submitted in just one among categories one, two, and three.
v) If you would like to be considered for the scholar prize, you want to provide proof of your enrolment during a highschool or institution during the amount when the submitted video was made.
vi) Applicants can’t be the staff of (or the relations of such staff) any United Nations system organization (including WHO); nor can they need any direct ties (employment, or otherwise) to the tobacco or arms industries.

6) What are the content requirements applicable to a submission to the festival?

i) Your submission must be your own work, must not be copied, must not contain any third- party materials and/or content (including background music) that you simply don’t have permission to use, must not promote your own or third party goods or services or include any trademarks (other than those belonging to WHO), and must not show inappropriate or dangerous behavior, or rather be obscene, defamatory, distasteful, offensive, or in breach of any applicable legislation or regulations, or in breach of any confidentiality obligations owed by you to 3rd parties. If WHO has reason to believe your entry isn’t your own work, if an individual objects to the inclusion of a video during which they’re featured being included within the festival , or if your entry otherwise breaches these rules, then we might not consider it and should disqualify it.
ii) In submitting an application to the festival , you warrant that:
– you’ve got not and can not grant licenses of your submission to companies handling military, arms, tobacco, alcohol or pharmaceutical products or services, or for advertising of economic products or services.
– your submission has not been produced with funds or any quite support from the above- mentioned industries.
– your submission has not been produced with funds from WHO or related programs, nor from other United Nations institutions or programs.

7) What are the legal terms and conditions applicable to a submission to the festival?

i) In submitting an entry for the festival, you agree, and comply with make sure that all production and distribution companies involved in your submission shall also agree, to offer a non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid up, perpetual, license to the planet Health Organization for its public screening during the festival events, just in case your video are going to be a part of the festival selection.
In addition, you agree that WHO may extend this license if necessary thanks to restrictions within the organization of a public screening, to the creation by WHO of online events dedicated to spotlight the official selection of the festival , with a written notice to you.
ii) additionally , if you’re a winner of the festival , you agree, and comply with make sure that all production and distribution companies involved in your submission shall also agree, to increase the scope of the above-mentioned license to all or any distribution of your submission by WHO in its various social media, digital and web platforms, also as for extra screenings at national or international events during which WHO will have a politician participation, and further for WHO’s activities concerning public health, according to its mandate, and beyond the scope of the festival . This extension of agreement will grant to WHO a perpetual, non-exclusive, sub- licensable, world-wide license to breed , publish, disseminate, exhibit, and in the other manner use and affect the video in any format and in any media whatsoever, with none additional payment or authorization to be made between the parties.
iii) By submitting an application, you warrant to WHO that your submission is your original work and in no way a violation of any existing copyright not declared in above mentioned certificates, which they need the facility to grant the license/permission described above, and to the extent the submission isn’t your original work, you’ve got obtained all required permits and licenses to supply the licenses to WHO described above.
iv) you extra warrant that consent has been obtained regarding the name, likeness, biography, picture and clinical details associated with a person , including any dead person , figuring in your submission. Copies of any such permission and consent shall be provided to WHO along side the submission.
v) you’ll indemnify and hold harmless WHO for legal liability incurred by it on the grounds that the video proposed would be a violation of the terms of those rules and any of the above warranties.
vi) WHO may exclude your application from the festival if you breach these rules, breach any applicable law, or take any act or are party to any act or thing prejudicial to WHO’s goodwill, reputation, or overall public image.
vii) If your film is chosen by WHO, for either the shortlist or a prize, you’re authorized to say this selection in your communications, without using the WHO logo.
viii) Any use by WHO of a submitted video will acknowledge the authors.
ix) Entering the festival doesn’t guarantee that you simply will win a prize or derive the other benefit. WHO accepts no responsibility for any damage, loss, liabilities, injury or disappointment incurred or suffered by you due to entering the festival or accepting any prize. WHO further disclaims liability for any injury or damage to you or the other person’s computer concerning or resulting from participation in or downloading any materials in reference to the festival . WHO reserves the proper at any time and from time to time to switch or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, this festival and therefore the prize competition, with or without prior notice, including thanks to reasons outside its control. the choice of WHO altogether matters under its control is final and binding.
x) Any dispute concerning the interpretation or application of those rules or the other aspect of the festival shall, unless amicably settled, be subject to conciliation. within the event of failure of the latter, the dispute shall be settled by arbitration. The arbitration shall be conducted in accordance with the modalities to be prescribed by the parties or, within the absence of agreement, with the principles of arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce. You and WHO shall accept the arbitral award as final. Nothing contained herein shall be construed as a waiver of any of the privileges and immunities enjoyed by WHO under national or law of nations , and/or as submitting WHO to any national court jurisdiction.

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