HASIK is the Advocacy Filmmaking Program of the Active Vista Film Festival.
Hasik (to spread) is a platform to spread the power that films possess in shaping the consciousness of its audience. It seeks to empower the new generation of filmmakers into creating films that address human rights issues and concerns. Hasik challenges new filmmakers to dare to spark change through cinema and to empower its audience towards social consciousness and involvement.
This advocacy cinema lecture and workshop sessions shall provide an opportunity to 50 young, aspiring filmmakers and students to be mentored by the film industry’s most brilliant and respected personalities. Selected participants shall undergo a three day intensive training on the fundamentals of advocacy filmmaking.
Fifty participants of the Advocacy Filmmaking Seminar shall be selected based on their proposed film concepts on the ten thematic human rights issues of the Festival. Active Vista shall award production grants to ten participants of the Hasik Advocacy Filmmaking Seminar whose film ideas best depict compelling human rights stories. These ten selected short films shall be screened in all areas of the Festival and will compete in the ALAB Short Film Competition of Active Vista.
THEMATIC CATEGORIES:
PEACE
By unmasking the stories of conflict and battle, we may be able to pursue the path of just and lasting peace in resolving the hostility between the government and rebel groups, between warring tribes and factions
EXTRA JUDICIAL KILLINGS, TORTURE AND ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES
By exposing haunting stories of lives claimed by fighting for truth and social justice, we may be able to uphold truth and stand firm on our integrity.
HUMAN TRAFFICKING
By showing how society has not yet rid itself of enslavement, we may be able to lessen the vulnerability of our countrymen from being held by the clutches of slavery.
GENDER DISCRIMINATION
By presenting films that depict the ongoing struggle of our nation to achieve gender equality, we may be able to lay the foundation towards an accepting, empowered nation.
ENVIRONMENT SUSTAINABILITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE
By displaying the beauty of a country gifted with abundant natural resources, we may be able to impart the pressing need to protect our environment from the devastating effects brought about by climate change.
RIGHT TO BASIC SOCIAL SERVICES AND SOCIAL SECURITY
By uncovering the government’s lack of support for every Filipino and the struggles of the common man in a country that despite the promise of progress has failed to provide families of decent shelter, workers of fair wages, farmers with a land of their own and the majority of the population to live a dignified life, we may be able to push the government to fulfill its obligation for its people.
HEALTH
By revealing the harrowing truths behind the health conditions of Filipinos, we may be able to ensure that every citizen be given proper health care and the right to be educated on sexuality that will lead to the nation’s well-being.
CHILDREN’S RIGHTS AND EDUCATION
By portraying the intricacies of everyday survival of the Filipino youth, we may be able to find a path to build their future.
PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
By showing films that give respect, empowerment and understanding to the disabled, may every Filipino, despite impairments, be able to fulfill their social responsibilities towards a fully-abled nation.
FREEDOM OF THOUGHT, EXPRESSION AND INFORMATION, JUSTICE, GOOD GOVERNANCE AND DEMOCRACY
By presenting the formation of a young nation struggling to practice democracy and good governance, we may be able to collectively transverse the road to nation building.
The deadline for Hasik applications has been extended to May 10, 2012.
