Women's Voices from the Muslim World - a Short-Film Festival
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REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, "Women's Voices from the Muslim World - a Short-Film Festival" (Short Film Festival: Voices from the Muslim World) touted by organizers as the event's first international short film about Islam and women. His films focus on women from various backgrounds and religions who live in countries with predominantly Muslim, and Muslim women who live as minorities around the world.
Organizers of the festival, Tabacaru said, so far the response to an online film competition is very positive. Since movies online registration opened in early October, the festival has received applications from more than 35 countries, and 26 films, among others, comes from Afghanistan.
| Film filmmakers who are interested to follow the competition can register their films online via www.womensvoicesnow.org until November 24. The winner will receive cash prizes and the movie will be shown at a film festival for three days in March 2011 in Los Angeles, California. Must Involved When human rights lawyer Catinca Tabacaru heard that there is someone who intends to organize a film festival of Muslim women, she feels must be involved. So in January 2010, Tabacaru joined philanthropist Leslie Sacks and others to establish "Women's Voices Now" (www.womensvoicesnow.org), non-profit organization that was behind this short film festival. |
The purpose of the festival, said Tabacaru, is presenting the spectacle of an unbiased and comprehensive information on Muslim women and women of various beliefs, asserting their rights, both from within and outside the Islamic world.
Tabacaru said that while the festival is to choose the titles that will be aired, the organizers hope to display the stories of women without filtered, and to highlight women's voices from around the Muslim world.
"We do not represent a particular religion or politics, but that we present is a series of films about women who are touched by Islam. And that is something new, "said Catinca.
According Tacabaru, most of these films explores the positive contributions and achievements of Muslim women. "We've often heard of Muslim women as victims, the oppressed, who wore a headscarf. Through this film festival, we get a story that was not imagined before, "said Catinca.
Alysse Stepanian is Iranian-born Armenian citizen who has lived in America for 30 years. The movie titled 'Roghieh' being included in this competition - based on journals he wrote about his experiences after the 1979 Iranian revolution.
"If you look at countries like Iran, or women in Iran, from somewhere like America, people see it as a country that exotic, dangerous or scary. But for people who live in the country, live there, it is your house and you do not feel afraid. Life goes on. I am not a Muslim but I grew up in a Muslim country and I have fond memories of Iran, so I'm happy to reconnect with my hometown, "said Alysse Stepanian.
Source:www.republika.co.id
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