MOFILM calls: Send us your films and help us to raise awareness for Syria

Are you a member of MOFILM or about to be registered, MOFILM calls for films to help raise awareness For Syria.

Dear MOFILMer,

After more than five years of conflict, Syrians are facing the largest humanitarian crisis in the world, with grave protection and human rights violations occurring daily.

Currently over 8 million children are in danger - their worlds have been turned upside down by this brutal conflict. So many have lost family, friends and schools. So many have been forced to flee their homes, with nothing but the clothes on their back. These children face a bitter winter in refugee camps or on perilous journeys in search of safety. Without warm winter supplies, they will struggle to survive.

For our annual London event taking place in November, in association with #CookForSyria (more info below) we are curating an evening of storytelling and awareness entitled ‘Immersive Storytelling For Purposeful Brands’ and we need your help. The aim of the event is to show how brands can contribute to a better world and how MOFILM can support that with film content made by the community.

To demonstrate that, we would like to showcase any films you have made in response to the Syrian refugee crisis. Where possible, we would also like to distribute your work to a global audience through paid promotion on Ripple Effect TV (our platform that brings brands, people and social causes together).

You can submit your films by sending them to Sam Lynas, sam.lynas@mofilm.com. If your work is selected, we’ll contact you to discuss next steps. Don’t submit anything that you don’t own or anything that uses music that you don’t have the rights to use. If you don’t have work you can share, but have an idea for a film you would like to create, please do also get in touch.

If you have any questions then feel free to contact Sam.

Thanks,

MOFILM

Note on #CookForSyria & UNICEF

Friend of MOFILM and influential Instagrammer ClerkenwellBoy has co-created #CookForSyria, a new nationwide fundraising initiative in aid of Unicef UK's Children of Syria Fund, in collaboration with NEXTGen London, UNICEF UK's young professional movement.

The month–long campaign will take place in November 2016 and focus on Syrian cuisine. It will encourage everyone from the UK’s top chefs and restaurants, to people at home, to cook and raise money in aid of this important cause.

UNICEF and its partners are committed to delivering essential services for Syrian families and keeping Syrian children from becoming a ‘lost generation’. Critical efforts are being made to minimise the impact of the crisis on children – including in the life-saving areas of health, nutrition, immunisation, water and sanitation, as well as education and child protection.

They are also working in neighbouring countries to support Syrian refugee families and the host communities in which they have settled.

UNICEF is one of the few humanitarian organisations working inside Syria, as well as helping Syrian child refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Turkey, Egypt and in Europe.

(c) MOFILM 2016

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