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gaze". TascĂłn also raises the issues of the politics of representation and what is involved in the ability to show the suffering of Others. Film festival scholars Ezra Winton and Svetla Turnin also explain that since film festivals are commercial spaces, depicting human rights in this context raises questions regarding their commodification under capitalism and neoliberalism. These criticisms have been levelled by Winton and Turnin to consider how films on human rights topics can be shown in a film festival setting without losing their radical and revolutionary characteristics, to make the audience feel activated rather than only empathetic.
224:, Czech Republic, under the leadership of Igor Blaževiĉ and is the largest human rights film festival in the world. One World boasts the largest number of thematic sections in a human rights film festival and runs for eleven days. It is a competitive festival with jury prizes. The competitions for festival prizes focus on both aesthetics and commitment to human rights issues. It is also used as a meeting place for documentary filmmakers and professionals with interests in the documentary film field as the festival hosts the East Doc Platform a training, and funding event by the Institute for Documentary Film.
140:. Movies that Matter has also created The Human Rights Film Network which aids in facilitating the creation of new human rights film festivals, while also allowing existing human rights film festivals membership to their network by agreeing to abide by their Charter. Although human rights film festivals are widely praised for their efforts to raise awareness on human rights issues they have also been subject to criticism surrounding issues of the "humanitarian gaze", NGOization, and commercialization.
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a city widely known to host many non-government organizations (NGOs) working towards promoting human rights related goals. According to film festival scholar Marijk de Valck the main priority when programming the festival is to appease the desires of the audience and cater to partner/sponsor NGOs all
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Some criticisms levelled at human rights film festivals, according to social work studies scholar Sonia TascĂłn, are their tendency, in a 'Western' context, to look out. Looking out is problematized by TascĂłn when gazing at Others occurs without having the gaze returned, also called the "humanitarian
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and has been running since 2002. Geneva is a significant location for the festival as it houses many human rights NGOs and is known as the "international capital of human rights". The festival is supported by the World
Organization Against Torture and coincides annually with the main meeting of the
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festival. The festival acts as a meeting place for activists and filmmakers to show films/videos while also functioning as a local distribution network where copies of films are exchanged. Freedom Film
Festival films screened in 2012 and 2014 at StoS Festival in
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the while promoting human rights causes. Movies that Matter created the Human Rights Film
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Festival Internacional de Cine de Derechos Humanos (FICDH) in Buenos Aires,
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International Film Festival, which began in 1995, became Movies that Matter International in 2006. Originally the festival's headquarters were shared with the headquarters of
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