Overview
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Meet the Team
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Abstract Submission for 2008
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Sponsorship Opportunities
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Contact the Film Festival Team
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Overview
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Film has the capacity to educate, inform and entertain, and can impact upon the way that we perceive complex social phenomenon such as substance misuse. The medium of film provides an opportunity to unravel the complexities associated with drug use, and also provides an enhanced experience for receiving and understanding information.
The International Drugs and Harm Reduction Film Festival has accompanied the annual IHRA conferences since 2004 and has become an integral, popular and invaluable component of the overall event. This innovative international film festival of documentaries has been seen in Melbourne (2004), Belfast (2005), Vancouver (2006) and Warsaw (2007). In 2008, the event will take place in Barcelona. What it has been able to achieve since its inception is to provide unique perspectives on the significant issues of harm reduction, drug use, minorities, poverty, organised crime and human rights - as seen through the film-makers’ lens.
The film festival committee, based at the Centre for Harm Reduction of the Burnet Institute in Australia, have accumulated up to 250 documentaries from over 25 countries. Preparations are underway to build upon this collection and put together an impressive film programme for Barcelona in 2008.
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Click above to view a short film about the International Drugs and Harm Reduction Film Festival [8.76MB] (1.52minutes)
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 Click here to view a selection of abstracts from the film festival in Warsaw (2007) [PDF:84KB]
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Click here to view a selection of abstracts from the film festival in Vancouver (2006) [PDF:70KB]
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Click here to view a selection of abstracts from the film festival in Belfast (2005) [PDF:136KB]
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Click here to view a selection of abstracts from the film festival in Melbourne (2004) [PDF:90KB]
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Click here to view the International Drugs and Harm Reduction Film Festival website
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Meet the Team
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The film festival is managed by Gary Reid and Peter Higgs from the Centre for Harm Reduction of the Burnet Institute in Australia. Known collectively as “the film fest team”, they are responsible for reviewing countless hours of material to put together this year’s film festival.
Abstract Submission for 2008
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In May 2008, the 5th International Drugs and Harm Reduction Film Festival will be integrated into the Harm Reduction 2008 conference programme as a parallel track. For the fifth year in a row, the film festival team will aim to collect a huge range of films - from animations to documentaries, art house to education – provided they relate to drugs and harm reduction. If you are interested in submitting a submission and showcasing your work in Barcelona, please complete the submission form at the back of the Call for Submissions below.
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Click here to view the 2008 Call for Submissions [WORD:77KB]
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Sponsorship Opportunities
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IHRA, the Conference Consortium and the Film Festival Team are currently seeking sponsorship and support to help maintain the high standards achieved by the International Drugs and Harm Reduction Film Festival in recent years, and to extend it’s scope and take it to a new level of exposure and quality.
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Click here for the Film Festival ‘Sponsorship Opportunities’ brochure [PDF:695KB]
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Contact the Film Festival Team
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For further information about the International Drugs and Harm Reduction Film Festival – including abstract submission - please contact the Drugs and Harm Reduction Film Festival Committee.
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