DC Shorts Film Festival presents screenwriting competition which awards up to $2,000 to a winning script, and guaranteed acceptance into the 2013 DC Shorts Film Festival.

Films of every genre with a special focus on films created by metropolitan Washington, DC-based directors and writers are acceptedare arefffff are accepted.

A panel of judges consisting of filmmakers, screenwriters and critics will review and provide coverage (feedback) for scripts of 15 pages or less. 5-7 finalists will be featured during ScriptDC — the region’s largest screenwriting conference — where their scripts will be read in front of a live audience. If the script is shot and completed by the deadline, it will be automatically included as an official selection for the 2013 DC Shorts Film Festival.

After each screening, filmmakers have the opportunity to speak to the audience as part of a moderated panel.

In 1989, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This landmark treaty spells out the rights of all children … to health, to education, to an adequate standard of living, to leisure and play, to protection from exploitation, to express their own opinions … and many more. All children have these rights.

Cartoons for Children's Rights is a UNICEF broadcast initiative that aims to inform people around the world about children’s rights. The effort has forged partnerships with many well-known animation studios that have developed more than 80 half-minute public service announcements based on the articles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Each PSA illustrates a right described in the global rights treaty, such as ‘Freedom from Child Labour’ or ‘Protection from Neglect’. All the spots are non-verbal, in order to get the rights message across to everyone, regardless of language. The spots have aired on more than 2,000 television stations globally.

Source: UNICEF   

Dear members and friends,

Please find enclosed the  minutes of the CIFEJ General Assemblies    Assemblies   and the new board’s endorsements at their first meeting. 

Herewith, we would like to express our sincere thanks of you members of CIFEJ who made this event a real success with your active participation and kind support.

We would like to thank Dr. Robert Roy, one of the most respectful Honorary members of CIFEJ, for his kind supporting message which was sent to the CIFEJ Secretary General just before the GA: “MOHSEN my friend, I do hope You and Firdoze and Maryam and everyone around you who devote their time and efforts to CIFEJ and young people will have a very important and productive meeting in Warsaw… .” (For the complete text of his letter, please see the main page of General Assembly 2012 on the CIFEJ Website).

We would like to express our thanks, again, of Athina Rikaki, the Ex-President of CIFEJ, for her attendance at the General Assembly in Warsaw and for her kind support.

Meanwhile, I’m glad to inform you that during the time I was preparing the report on the General Assembly and the Board’s meeting, we were also working to actively promote CIFEJ based on the decisions made at the GAs and the Board meeting.

 Thus, I am really excited to announce happy News:

•       A new section has been launched, by the CIFEJ HQ, on the CIFEJ website, entitled “Gallery”.

You can find not only the photos of the various events of CIFEJ on the web Gallery, but, also, you can have access to the video reports about  activities of CIFEJ in this section.

The photos have the capability to be categorized and to be entitled, each, to describe what events they are related to. To see the photos in its original size, it’s enough you click on each of them you like; to return to the set of photos in small size, you need click again on the same enlarged photo.

We would like to invite you to visit Gallery to see several photos taken during General Assembly in Warsaw and which have been kindly shared with the CIFEJ HQ by several members present at the GA. More photos are arriving; so, don’t forget to search for them in the coming days.

Also, if you would like to watch the video report of the CIFEJ workshop held in Baku, pls. click here. 

1. Assemblies  Due to the nice collaboration of our new young members, Reem Saleh and Ali Ahmad, with the CIFEJ Headquarters, CIFEJ has joined Facebook and Twitter. We invite you to join CIFEJ on Facebook; to access the page, follow this link... .

AIBD is organizing the Asia Media Summit in Bangkok, Thailand (29 - 30 May 2012).

The conference which is held in collaboration with international  organizations provides a unique opportunity for broadcasters in the region  to share their thoughts on Broadcasting and Information.

Such keynote speakers are confirmed for the Opening Ceremony as Ms. Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO.

The Iranian film “A separation”, directed by Asghar Farhadi, received 84th Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language film.

This film was nominated in “Best Foreign Language” and “Screenplay” categories.

The film,originally entitled "The Separation of Nader from Simin”, is the first Iranian film receiving Oscar and the second Iranian film nominated in this category; the first being "Children of Heaven" in 1999.

Martin Scorsese’s3D fantasy “Hugo” dominating Oscars with 11 nominations received Academy Award for the Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Editing, Best  Sound  Mixing, Best Visual Effects

Martin Scorsese had won the best director Oscar for the 2006 movie “The Departed”.