Freedom Film Fest

Joint Press Conference with Suaram and KOMAS announcing the Freedom Film Fest 2011
March 22nd, 2011

Seven years ago, KOMAS’ FREEDOM FILM FEST (FFF) was held in a small college hall in Kuala Lumpur with NGO activists, friends, family and a few walk-in public members as audience.

Today it is pretty much the same, except the hall is bigger, a lot more NGOs, friends, family and general public members are participating. And most significant of all, the Penang & Selangor State governments are our co-sponsors.

This has been the journey of the FFF, the first and only human rights film festival in Malaysia. All throughout the year we hold community film screenings, film proposal competition, road shows, workshops and finally the premier screenings of the winning films in 4 cities and towns in Malaysia.

KOMAS will once again collaborate with the Penang State Government and local human rights NGO, Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM) Penang. This strategic collaboration will definitely enhance human rights education and advocacy among Penangites.

A joint press conference was held on the 22nd of March 2011 at Kompleks Tun Abdul Razak (KOMTAR) by the Penang State Government together with KOMAS and SUARAM Penang to officially announce the call for entries for the FFF proposal writing competition.

Y.B. Wong Hon Wai, the State Exco member for Arts and Culture, affirmed the Penang State Government’s support for creative human rights based activities such as the FFF. He also urged Malaysians to send in their proposals based on SUARAM’s Annual Malaysian Human Rights Report. The report is a compilation of human rights cases and situations in Malaysia.

Anna Har, FFF advisor and KOMAS Board member gave a background of why FFF was established and what KOMAS wanted to achieve in terms of advocating for human rights in Malaysia through the use of the film medium

Lee Hui Fei of Suaram Penang felt that the FFF is a good and effective way to reach out to young people. She added that as local partners of the FFF in Penang, they will be organising film screenings of previous years’ FFF winning films in various colleges and communities.

FFF Coordinator Rekka Chinnasamy, and Programme Officer Fabian Mark Peter gave more details about the film proposal competition and also about other activities of the Festival. A short trailer of the FFF and the recent launching in Kuala Lumpur was also screened for the invited media.

For those interested to join this year’s competition, do visit our website at

http://freedomfilmfest.komas.org.

Deadline is April 15th, 2011.

Also to find out more about screenings in Penang and also a community workshop organized by SUARAM Penang visit their facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=342477481878

"敢于记录”接受参赛短片　6千元制作费找主人


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■自由电影节主办单位同人与黄汉伟合照。左起为王泽钦、李蕙卉、丽卡、黄汉伟、夏美玉和法比安。

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马来西亚人权组织社会传播中心（KOMAS）主办的2011年自由电影节“敢于记录”短片计划书征集已经开始接受比赛作品。

传播中心董事夏美玉今日联同槟州城市及乡村规划、房屋和艺术委员会主席黄汉伟在光大行政议员办公楼召开的记者会上指出，主办当局欢迎任何关系到人权及大马社会课题的短片制作计划书。3份优胜者将可以赢得6000令吉的制作费赞助，以让他们将这些概念拍成短片。

第8年办自由电影节

她说，今年已经是该中心第8年主办自由电影节，而这项活动在槟城举行也有6年历史了。短片计划书征集截止日期为4月15日，详情可以浏览：http://freedomfilmfest.komas.org/。她透露，去年这项比赛共收到近50份参赛作品，预料于5月初公布成绩。

她说，主办当局过去在遴选优胜作品时，主要都是以题材作为考量，因此优胜者并不一定是专业电影制作人，相反很多优胜者多是学生及媒体工作者。

鼓励本地自由电影　题材为首要考量

自由电影节协调员丽卡补充说，参赛者年龄必须18岁以上，小过18岁的必须由监护人提交。

尽管过去主办当局也收到不少外国留学生的参赛作品，不过基于主办当局的宗旨是要鼓励本地自由电影及国内人权课题的关注，因此比赛还是会以本地参赛者及题材为首要考量。

423影片制作工作营　欢迎公众学习

电影节槟城协办单位马来西亚人民之声槟城分会活动负责人李蕙卉说，配合这项活动，人民之声也将在4月23日主办影片制作工作营，欢迎年轻朋友及公众一起来学习影片制作技巧，通过不同的管道来传达他们的声音。

黄汉伟认为，自由电影节能够给国人开拓更大的空间，在让人民有机会表达意见的同时，也通过电影形式让民众更了解我国的人权情况。

支持人民表达意见

他说，州政府也非常支持人民表达意见的权力，去年5月开设的言论广场就是一个例子。

他说，他也很关注人民之声每年的报告，并认为报告当中很多该组织提出的课题也可以拍成电影短片，让民众更容易吸收。

“敢于记录”短片计划书征集其它细则：

短片格式：纪念片、文献电视片、动画及视觉艺术作品。

短片长度：15至30分钟。

语言：任何语言，惟必须有英文和马来文字幕。