Worldwide – An essay competition is seeking first-person narratives on poverty reduction from writers around the globe. Deadline: October 15. Writers should focus on enterprise solutions to poverty that are faith-based, faith-inspired or interfaith. Topics can be focued in subjects including healthcare, education, consumer products and human rights. Two prizes of US$5,000 each will be awarded. Winners will be announced December 15. The essay competition is being hosted by S.E.VEN Fund (SEVEN) in partnership with the Washington DC-based Center For Interfaith Action on Global Poverty (CIFA). For more info visit : http://www.sevenfund.org/faith-and-development/
Publish Date: Wednesday, July 28th 2010 |
Filmmakers worldwide can apply to participate in a training workshop on film marketing in Luxembourg from December 1 to 5. Deadline to apply: October 15. The EAVE Film Marketing Workshop is a four-day intensive program exploring film marketing throughout the process of development, production, festival screening, exhibition and distribution. It will emphasize a “hands-on” and practical approach using current films and marketing techniques. The event’s working language is English. Fees range from EU€1,200 (US$1,540) to EU€1,800 (US$2,300). For more information. To apply, contact Cecile Devroye at cecile@eave.org.
Publish Date: Wednesday, July 28th 2010 |
Community broadcasters and stakeholders from around the world are invited to the 2010 World Assembly of Community Radio Broadcasters conference in La Plata, Argentina, from November 8 to 13. The conference aims to: improve quality practice in community media, establish legal environments for community media to develop and reinforce content development leading to social change through radio. For more information visit: http://amarc10.amarc.org/index.php?p=home&l=EN
Publish Date: Wednesday, July 28th 2010 |
Documentary filmmakers interested in human rights and social change around the world are encouraged to submit entries to an international documentary film festival in Budapest. Deadline for submission: August 31. The 7th Verzio International Film Festival will run from November 2 to 7. The festival is seeking high quality, creative documentaries dedicated to the ideals of open society, democracy, rule-of-law, tolerance, and political and cultural pluralism in a global context, according to organizers. Works should also seek to expose abuse and human rights’ violations throughout the world. To apply, and for more information, e-mail verziofilmfest@ceu.hu.
Publish Date: Wednesday, July 28th 2010 |
A newly-released letter shows that worried U.S. officials warned Scottish authorities that scenes of jubilation in Tripoli over the release of the Lockerbie bomber would be damaging, and asked that Abdel Baset al-Megrahi not be allowed to leave Scotland. A 2009 diplomatic letter from Richard LeBaron, the charge d’affaires at the U.S. Embassy in London, to Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond was released Monday. It sets out Washington’s opposition to the release, and says even a release on compassionate grounds because of al-Megrahi’s diagnosis for prostate cancer would be more “severely undercut the longer he is free before his actual... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Tuesday, July 27th 2010 |
