NHRC’s Short Film Competition 2023 : National Human Rights Commission

Organisation : National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of India
Contest Name : NHRC’s Short Film Competition – 2023
Applicable For : Indian citizen
Last Date : 30 September 2023
Website : https://nhrc.nic.in/document/nhrcs-short-film-competition-%E2%80%93-2023

What is NHRC’s Short Film Competition?

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) invites short films for its ‘Short Film Competition – 2023’, which aims at recognizing the creative efforts towards promotion and protection of human rights. The film may be in any technical format. These may be in any Indian language with sub-titles in English or in English.

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The prize money for the first, second and third best film will be Rs. 2 lakh, Rs.1 lakh 50 thousand and 1 lakh respectively. The Commission, in addition to three cash awards, certificates and trophies may also consider giving a Certificate of Special Mention along with a cash prize of Rs. 50 thousand each to some films, if so recommended by the jury.

Eligibility of Short Film Competition

i. Who can compete:
Any Indian citizen can send his/her entry. There is no bar on the number of films sent by an individual for competing in theNHRC’s Short Film Award Scheme. However, each application should have one film only and films sent once for the NHRC’s competition may not compete again under this scheme of the Commission.

The film(s)being sent for this competition should not be on social media platform(s). The applicant should attach his/her identity, such as,Aadhar Card, Voter Identity Card, PAN Card, Driving License or anyother valid proof of identity issued by a Government authority.

ii. Entry Fee: There is no entry fee.
iii. Theme of the film: Human rights issues*. Each entry should accompany brief theme and synopsis of the film.
iv. Language of the film: Any Indian language with sub-titles in English or in English.
v. Duration of the film: Duration of the short film should not be less than 3 minutes and more than 10 minutes.

vi. Film format: Short films may be in any form (fiction, documentary, animation etc) shot with any device or camera set-up (in MP4 format, Full HD (1080p) or 1920X1820p). Preferably, the size of the short film being sent for the competition should not be more than 2 GB.

vii. Title & Credits: Each film should depict its title and credits, including the names of the producer, writer and director.

viii. Jury: A Jury will select the winners.

ix. Distribution of Award: The onus will be on the applicant that he/she is the only authorized representative to send the entry for the Award Scheme. In case of the selection of the film for an award, it will be given to the applicant only. The NHRC will, in no way, be responsible for any dispute arising out of it.

The NHRC will give the award money through cheque only in the name of the applicant. The award money cheque may be issued in the name of a company or a production house only if it is stated to be so by the applicant in his application form.

The applicant in the proforma application will have to give an undertaking as follows: “I ___________, son/daughter of ________, resident of __________, hereby declare that as the ‘Applicant’, I have the right to send the film, as per details given above, for competing in the NHRC’s Short Film Award Competition-2023.

I have read all the terms and conditions of the Competition and agree with them and give the NHRC the right to use the film for any purpose it deems fit including uploading on its website/social media. In case of any dispute, the onus will be on me only and not the NHRC to deal with the issue at my end”

Method to Apply Short Film Competition

a) The applicant should have Gmail account with Google drive access.

b) Duly filled-in application form along with requisite documents, Film and its themes and synopsis should be uploaded in the folder of Google drive with title “Short Film Award-2023, <name of applicant/ Production house>”.

The link of the folder of Google drive should be forwarded through Email on NHRC email: – nhrcshortfilm@gmail.com (No hard copy of application or DVD/Pen drive is required). The applicant must write his/her complete postal address, telephone and mobile number in the Email.

What is Last date Short Film Competition?

The entries received after the 30th September, 2023 at 06:00PM, will not be entertained.