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ICCL Human Rights Film Awards 2010 to open at Cork Film Festival
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has announced the planned launch of its second annual Human Rights Film Awards with a special screening at the Corona Cork Film Festival in November 2009 (date TBC).
Following on from a very successful inaugural year, the 2010 ICCL Human Rights Film Awards will once again call on the best of Irish filmmakers, directors, producers, scriptwriters (amateur and professional) to turn their hands to a making a short film on a human rights issue. The aim of the Awards will be to provide film students, filmmakers and those working in human rights with an opportunity to use the medium of film to raise public awareness about human rights in the Irish context.
This special screening will showcase the six finalist short films from the ICCL’s hugely successful inaugural 2009 competition, first screened at the competition’s Gala Awards in the Light House Cinema, Dublin on 11 June 2009. Covering a range of topics and genres, the shortlist represents the cream of entries to this inaugural ICCL competition, and sets a high standard for entries in 2010.
Details of how to enter the 2010 competition will be made available on the evening, along with the opportunity to meet members of the competition panel and past competition entrants. Full details of the launch event will released in the coming weeks.
