World
Peace Awards is part of a big festival group, the International
Film Festivals. Working closely with the Council of Creative
People (Dewan Kreatif Rakyat) and International i-Hebat
Volunteers, the Festival is aimed to give international
recognition for peacemaker reconciling adversaries. He or she
could be anyone with any background, any profession, or from all
age.
Our
mission is to promote peace and humanitarian issues and inspire
others. Winning person profile will become our showcase based on
their CVs.
The
Festival Group prominent past winners include President Jimmy
Carter, John Pope II, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Adolfo Pérez
Esquivel, and many Hollywood stars: Alice Krige, Robin Shou,
Dennis Rodman, Leonardo DiCaprio, Academy Award Winner Susan
Sarandon, Martin Sheen, James Cromwell, David Anders, Julian
Sands, Pearl Jam, U2, etc.
Let
your film become an inspiration to others.
AWARDS RECIPIENT 2020
International Peace Platinum Awards:
CAN ART STOP A BULLET: William Kelly's Big Picture directed by Mark Street Documentary Film
Special Mention:
Love Has A Thousand Shapess directed by Katyana Short
Film
Black & White directed by Mark Andrew Feature Film
AWARDS RECIPIENT 2019
International Peace Platinum Awards:
Halmidi directed by Siva Nandan W Feature Film
Dancing in Peace directed by Flower Andrew Documentary Film
International Peace Gold Awards:
The Color of Freedom directed by Shihyun Wang
Documentary Film
Special Mention:
They Shall Not Grow Old directed by Paul Wheatcroft
Documentary Film
IT IS NOT A GALA DINNER (One hundred years of Peace) directed by Stefano Grossi, Dario
Cambiano Documentary Film
What's Your Number? directed by Sigal Erez Short Film
Cape Espichel - In Land of a Lost World - directed by Carlos Manuel Correia
da Cunha Sargedas Documentary Film
AWARDS RECIPIENT 2018
International Peace Platinum Awards:
"101" (Germany, Poland) directed by Josef Roman
Luszpinski, Pawel Siedlik
Documentary Film
The Uganda Project (Uganda) directed by Robert Fritz, Reint
Bakema Documentary Film
Women Prayed and Preyed Upon (India) directed by Kankana Chakraborty Documentary Film
International Peace Gold Awards:
A battle we can't afford to lose - Breast Cancer (USA) directed by Shihyun Wang
Documentary Film
Women Prayed and Preyed Upon India directed by Kankana Chakraborty
Emerging Documentarian
Jab We Let... Friendship Beyond Labels (India) directed by Black Ticket Films
Documentary Film
Festival Event Video
(Courtesy of DKR TV Indonesia)
AWARDS RECIPIENT 2017
International Peace Platinum Award Fighting to Be Free directed by Cheryl Halpern
Are you
a peacemaker? Are you a filmmaker who make a documentary or
narrative about inspirational people who work to build peace?
Spread the words and let them become an inspiration!
- You can submit yourself, or people you know, living or dead.
- Send you or his/her CVs to our e-mail:
worldpeaceawards[at]gmail.com and e-mail us for your
registration. State your name and your relation to the person
you suggest. CV and other supporting documentation or related
information like photos, clipping, or films are suggested.
You can
submit your submission through Film Festivals Alliance.
World
Peace Awards proudly accepts entries via FilmFreeway.com, the
world's best online submission platform. FilmFreeway offers free
HD online screeners, unlimited video storage, digital press
kits, and more. Click to submit with FilmFreeway.
Juries
consist of a group of notable politicians, filmmakers, seasoned
artists, and entrepreneurs will give awards to the selected
persons: Peacemaker Man of the Year, Peacemaker Woman of the
Year, Platinum Award, Gold Award, and Silver Award.
Awards
Night will be presented in August 2019. We will email you when
you are selected, latest on the 25th July 2019.
All winners are warmly invited to attend the ceremony. On that
occasion, during the ceremony in Indonesia, World Peace Awards
will give awards to all attendant winners.
We
accept inspirational film and documentary about peace or
humanitarian issues, or conflict solving, or other matters in
relating to peace.
General
Submit yourself, or people
you know, living or dead who is a peacemaker. CV and other
supporting documentation or related information like photos,
clipping, or films are suggested.
Documentary Film
Documentary film at any
length about peace or biography of any peacemaker.
Feature film
Narrative feature film with
duration more than 60 minutes
Short film
A short narrative film with
film duration <60 minutes about humanity issues.
Package of five:
Directing, cinematography,
editing, script-writing, film performance, leading actress,
sound, production design, costume design, music, etc (separate
awards). Please e-mail your category of choice to:
worldpeaceawards.wpa@gmail.com
Please read this below TERMS & CONDITIONS carefully before you
submit.
This agreement pertains to all Work/s submitted to World Peace
Awards:
Be it known to any filmmaker or submitter, by submitting your
film/s to the World Peace Awards, you agree to all TERMS AND
CONDITIONS below in full.
Submitters can submit themselves, or people you know, living or
dead. CV and other supporting documentation or related
information like photos, clipping, or films are suggested.
Our juries may also search information from other sources once
we accept the submission.
1. The submitter guarantee that all rights and releases have
been legally secured, including music rights, songs, etc and the
submitter releases the Festival and all its member from any
legal action whatsoever.
2. A. If nominated, 2 DVD PAL and 1 (one) Blu-ray (optional) or
DCP, must be sent. Mark case and DVD, with the title, length,
and director's name. Please mark your film with "No Commercial
Value - For Cultural Purposes Only" either on the envelope and
the shipping invoices. Although every possible care will be
taken with DVDs while in our possession, however, we cannot
accept responsibility for unforeseen loss, stolen, or damage of
entries. Please do not send originals. We do not receive
downloads of any kind.
B. For general category, you do not need to send the above items
(number 2A).
3. All transportation/shipping costs (including customs
clearance) to Jakarta, plus fees for insurance while in transit,
must be borne by the participants (please write: For Cultural
Purposes only - Not for commercial use). The Festival Director
reserves the right to refuse any shipment involving unpaid
costs.
4. All submissions should be sent pre-paid.
5. We will not return your screening and exhibition copies.
6. All submission fees are non-refundable.
7. All selection committees' and juries' decisions are finals.
8. Only producers or directors can receive the physical awards
at the award ceremony.
9. Regardless of the Prize and the winning status, winning
filmmakers who can't attend the Awards Ceremony, will only
receive laurels.
10. The festival has the right to disqualify a winning film for
any reasons, without having to explain the reasons to the
submitter.
11. Submission of an entry gives the festival permission to have
accepted work exhibited, photographed, locally telecast, and
reproduced either in part or whole, for educational or publicity
purposes. Filmmakers can request in writing that their material
should not be used for such purposes after the Festival.
12. We do not pay any screening fees. Not all winning films will
be screened. The festival has the full right to select the
winning films to be screened.
13. The Festival Directorate may deny participation to any film
unable to meet the technical requirements for a public screening
of good quality.
14. The Festival Management reserves the right to make changes
in the profile of the Festival if it becomes necessary to do so
due to circumstances beyond his/her control.
15. All filmmakers/submitters are expected to keep
communications with the Festival professional and in good taste.
Failure to do so may result in disqualification at any point in
the adjudication process, including the nullification of
Official Selection status or nominations. That stated, the
Festival will only communicate with the person who submitted
his/her film to the festival, and that Festival should not be
expected to communicate with any other persons.
16. The festival has the right to work with any institution and
partner festivals for all kind of cooperation, including joint
events or promotions.
17. The Festival reserves the right to make any necessary
changes in regulations or scheduling.
18. The submitter/filmmaker also acknowledges that remediation
of any sort will be limited to a refund of their submission
fees.
19. Films could be from any year.
20. All disputes in respect of any matter relating to the World
Peace Awards shall be subjected to the exclusive jurisdiction of
the competent courts in North Jakarta. Any dispute arising as a
result of submission to the Festival will have a recourse
limited to the lesser of either the submission fee paid or the
cost of correcting the issue.
By submitting to our Festival, submitters/filmmakers: - indicate that they have
read, understand, agree with, and will comply all of the Terms
and Condition above, and accept all of the terms and conditions
herein, in their entirety, without modification.
- agree to indemnify us and hold us and our employees, owners,
affiliates, and partners harmless from all claims and liability
associated with your participation or entry to the Festival.
