L-R Jim Loughran of Front Line Defenders; Director of 'Mums and Dad' Dara de Faoite; Director of 'The Value of Women' Dearbhla Glynn; Jury Members Kirsten Sheridan, Nicky Phelan and John Kelleher; 'The Rattle of Benghazi' producer Chriona O'Sullivan; Director of 'No Enemies' Trish McAdam and Director of 'The Rattle of Benghazi' Paco Torres.

The shortlist for the 5^th annual Irish Council for Civil Liberties Human Rights Film Awards was today (Wednesday 05 June 2013) announced by a jury of leading names in Irish cinema, including Oscar-nominated screenwriter and director Kirsten Sheridan.

The cream of entries to Ireland’s only human rights film competition, the five shortlisted films cover a diverse range of issues at home and further afield.

Announcing the shortlist today, Jury Member Kirsten Sheridan said:

“The five films shortlisted for this year’s Awards run a gamut of themes from the subjugation of women during armed conflict to the empowerment of people with disabilities. The strength of the human spirit and the capacity of a human rights based approach to protect the most vulnerable members of society is a common thread that runs through all of them." 

 “The Jury would like to congratulate all the filmmakers on reaching the shortlist of this prestigious competition, and we look forward to our deliberations to decide the winning film.”

The shortlist will be the subject of an exclusive Gala Awards screening at the Light House Cinema on the evening of June 20th 2013, where the Jury will announce the winning film.

The Shortlist can be viewed online on the ICCL Human Rights Film Awards Website HERE.

http://www.fundit.ie/project/iccl-human-rights-film-awards-2013

Thank you!

With your help we not only reached our Human Rights Film Awards FundIt target of €4000, but SMASHED it, raising €5421 in pledges.

To all who pledged, and to all of those who sent cheques and called the office to pledge, an enormous THANK YOU! We’re so grateful for your support of the ICCL Human Rights Film Awards, for giving us the resources we need to run the project and, now, to put those funds into our other projects which raise awareness about human rights in Ireland.

A special thank you to Jean Herlihy & Brown Bag Films for running a cake sale to support our Fundit campaign, and to Brown Bag Films for matching what they raised – amazing! You can see pictures of the yumminess over on our Facebook page.

We’re simply overwhelmed by the support, positive feedback & kind words we’ve received about this project and our Fundit campaign. Thank you!

We will very soon be announcing the 2013 ICCL Human Rights Film Awards Shortlist, which will feature at our Gala Screening in Dublin's Light House Cinema on 20 June. Watch this space!

 

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