The Cinema, Human Rights and Advocacy summer school,  has just issued its last call for applications.  It will be held in Galway, Ireland 16-25 June and offers a unique opportunity to filmmakers, human rights academics and activists from around the world to develop ideas and projects and to work with internationally acclaimed experts of film, television, photography and human rights..

This year’s will be the the 11th human rights and advocacy summer school. .It is run by the Huston School of Film & Digital Media and the Irish Centre for Human Rights, part of the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Application Deadline: 30-April-2016

The Summer School is led by Nick Danziger an internationally renowned practitioner in the field of human rights documentary making, and Claudia Modonesi a human rights expert and media trainer. The 10-day programme consists of eight teaching sessions, workshops and film screenings that combine human rights expertise and media studies. Sessions develop issues relating to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a History of Human Rights Cinema, Freedom of Expression and Censorship, the Use of Video in Human Rights Documentation and Advocacy, Producing Social Documentaries, the Role of Media in Period of Conflict and Production and Distribution of Human Rights Films. Each module is illustrated by film or documentary screenings.
Elements of the summer school include information on the fundamentals of human rights, how to raise awareness of human rights on camera, developing a project proposal and how these ideas should be pitched.

More info at: www.chra.ie
Apply at: http://www.chra.ie/apply.php
You can email them a query at: info@chra.ie

Tuition fees are 650 euros and there are some scholarships available.

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