The World Meals Programme (WFP) in Egypt is partnering with El Gouna Movie Competition (GFF) and Zest Firm, a Cairo-based media firm that crafts entertaining cooking content material and tells tales of Center Jap delicacies, to launch “3eish,” a contest highlighting meals safety aimed toward filmmakers throughout Egypt and the Arab World.
This initiative invitations creatives to submit quick movie ideas that spotlight the crucial subject of meals safety via cinema.
Entrants are inspired to craft narratives that mirror the significance of guaranteeing that each one people have entry to adequate, nutritious, and secure meals always, enabling them to steer wholesome and energetic lives.
Submissions are open till 14 October, after which a panel composed of movie business leaders and representatives from GFF, WFP, and Zest will consider the entries and choose the finalists. The profitable proposal will likely be revealed at an unique occasion throughout El Gouna Movie Competition which is able to run between 24 October to 1 November, and the winner will obtain a minimal of USD 20,000 (EGP 974,000) in manufacturing help to convey their imaginative and prescient to life.
Movies shouldn’t exceed quarter-hour in size and should deal with meals safety from considered one of a number of angles, together with the empowerment of ladies and youth via skilled coaching, help for farmers utilizing fashionable agricultural strategies, academic initiatives for youngsters in distant areas, and dietary help for moms and newborns.
Moreover, submissions have to be made in Arabic.
Together with the kind, candidates are required to submit a dramatic remedy–an in depth description of the setting, theme, character roles, and plot in an effort to present how the story will play out for the viewers–,a abstract of their concept, and an announcement explaining their imaginative and prescient for the venture.
Offering a script and any related earlier works in scriptwriting or directing will considerably improve their utility.
The choice course of will prioritize the originality of the concepts, their alignment with the themes of meals safety, and the feasibility of execution throughout the proposed finances.
With this progressive competitors, the WFP, GFF, and Zest intention to focus on the significance of meals safety and to empower the following technology of filmmakers to make use of their artwork as a pressure for social change.
