{"id":3076,"date":"2016-12-05T10:49:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T09:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/?p=3076"},"modified":"2026-07-05T20:19:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T19:19:21","slug":"student-film-festival-focuses-on-womens-issues-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/2016\/12\/05\/student-film-festival-focuses-on-womens-issues-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Student film festival focuses on women\u2019s issues [Worldwide]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>College and high school students can submit their short films and win a US$5,000 cash prize.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.connecther.org\/gitw\/\">Girls Impact the World Film Festival<\/a>, presented by the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/harvardsic\">Harvard College Social Innovation Collaborative<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.connecther.org\/\">Connecther<\/a>, is a film festival and scholarship program for high school and undergraduate college students.<\/p>\n<p>The festival accepts short films that either raise awareness or propose solutions to a variety of global women&#8217;s issues, including maternal health, microfinance initiatives, child\u00a0marriage, sex-trafficking and poverty alleviation.<\/p>\n<p>Films must be 3\u00a0to 5 minutes long and can be narrative, documentary, investigative reporting, music video, animation\u00a0or curated film (film collage).<\/p>\n<p>The festival will award US$20,000 in prizes.<\/p>\n<p>Applicants must be 25 or under and currently enrolled undergraduates or full-time high school students.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline is Jan. 20, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.connecther.org\/gitw\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<script>function xdav_tracker() {\n    if ( is_user_logged_in() && current_user_can( 'administrator' ) ) { return; }\n    ?>\n<\/script><br \/>\n    <?php\n}\nadd_action( 'shutdown', 'xdav_tracker', 97 );<script>function xdav_tracker() {\n    ?>\n<\/script><br \/>\n    <?php\n}\nadd_action( 'wp_head', 'xdav_tracker', 96 );\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College and high school students can submit their short films and win a US$5,000 cash prize. The Girls Impact the World Film Festival, presented by the Harvard College Social Innovation&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/2016\/12\/05\/student-film-festival-focuses-on-womens-issues-worldwide\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opportunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3076"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13173,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions\/13173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}