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Film Festival: The Taxi Takes on the World (India)
an article by Shreya Jani, STEP - Standing Together to Enable Peace
Video: The Taxi Takes: Women and Islam
I write to you to help me spread the message on our upcoming peace festival and the citizen's journalism film festival that we are organising: 'The Taxi Takes on the World @ Celebration of Peace Film Festival' – a unique film festival featuring interactions between taxi drivers and passengers from inside taxis around the globe.
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The Taxi Takes on the World is a crowd sourced interactive documentary that is partnering with the Non Profit ‘STEP - Standing Together to Enable Peace to organize this film festival. The film festival will be part of the 5th annual ‘ 'Jashn - e – Aman' (Celebration of Peace) Festival organized by STEP. It will be held from the 21st of September, the International Day of peace, to the 2nd of October 2013 in 4 states (Kashmir, Punjab, New Delhi and Manipur) in India. The film festival will have an acclaimed jury and the best films will become part of a 5-country traveling film festival, win awards, gain publicity and be featured on the project website. One lucky audience choice award winner will get a latest smartphone as a prize.
We are excited to announce the Call for Submissions to this innovative project and are looking forward to receiving amazing taxi videos from around the planet.
A single interaction in life can change a choice or a deed. An honest and spontaneous encounter between two strangers in a cab can make us have a moment. In that moment we think differently about a person or issue that we assumed we knew a lot about. On one hand technology draws us closer together and never before have we had so much information at our fingertips. However, technology often creates even more room for misunderstanding and stereotypes by spreading second hand information. This project seeks to address the challenges of our information age by focusing on broad topics like religious and ethnic conflict, war and terror, race, gender class and culture. Each of these global topics has regional nuances that the mainstream media often overlooks. Through the prism of the taxi, where every day people from often widely disparate backgrounds meet, this user generated project will tell a story about how, given the right space, we all can understand each other and speak a common language. By dynamically collecting and sharing the world’s perspectives The Taxi Takes on the World aims to create an online platform that informs and educates us about each other.
We’ve put together a page with submission details (as well as waivers, cheat sheets and everything else you’ll need) here. Also a pdf of the poster, which can be printed and posted in your community.
We appreciate your help in spreading the word, and don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions. Any queries can be sent to: takeontheworld@thetaxitakes.com
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Videos promoting culture of peace, , What contests are available?
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Latest reader comment:
CPNN has often carried information about contests for artistic productions promoting a culture of peace. See the following. Now we begin to have more contests that are dedicated to videos.
PLURAL+ 2012 Youth Video Festival on Migration and Social Inclusion
Projet de festival international de marionnettes
Interfaith Jury Awards 'The Orange Suit' in Fajr International Film Festival
Black International Cinema Berlin: May 2-6, 2012
Rio+20 Global Youth Music Contes
Fourth Contest of Animations for Peace
Photo Contest: Peace in Young People's Eyes
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