MEDFILM project : “Women, Films and History: Talking to Culture” 2019-2020
It aims to Promote the role of women in film making through engagement with local authorities, and challenging social norms and negative stereotypes with references to local culture and history of the targeted areas through film screenings, open community discussions and online campaigns to reach and engage the biggest number of people.
The project implemented with youth of Jordan and Egypt in rural and deprivileged communities.
"Women, Films and History: Talking to Culture" contributed to establishing a culture of in the targeted locations through a series of interconnected activities based on the ANHRE participatory approach. The project made a holistic impact at community level as the intervention started by creating partnerships with CBOs in the targeted location, then worked with active youth in targeted locations and build their capacities on film making and improved their knowledge and awareness on gender equality, and finally, it went to the general public and engaged them in public screening events taking into account engaging decision makers in the efforts at all level.
The goal of project "Women, Films and History: Talking to Culture" succeeded in empowering 83 youth (56 females and 27 males) and 4 CBOs to produce their own films consider gender equality. The project engaged the 4 CBOs in the preparation, outreach, implementation and reporting. In the same context the project created a bridge between these CBOs and youth from their local communities to establish a cooperative relationship between them to implement the project and to ensure sustainability.
The youth were engaged actively in using audio-visual productions to address gender issues and challenges. The youth were engaged in capacity building activities on gender concepts and stereotyping and they were equipped with the technical skills to enable them to produce their own professional films. Eventually they used the gained knowledge and skills to produce short film on gender issues from their local community. The issues were identified by the youth themselves during the training workshops on gender and based on ANHRE participatory approach and transformative education. Thus, the films were accepted by the community as the issues are familiar to them. The youth have been linked to films industry at national and international levels. Five film were screened in Aswan International Women's Films Festival during the period from 12-15 February 2020. in addition, the films of Aswan group were screen in Women Film Festival of Aswan in Egypt.
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For pictures in Egypt Visit here
To watch project's videos:
- The promise click here
- Isn't a reason click here
- "مريول وطرحة " click here
- When necessary click here
- Before time click here
- Nadia click here
- Man's Shadow click here
- Giving birth of femals is not a shame click here
- Out of Line click here
- " ابو الدكتورة" click here
- Me click here
- For Sell click here