(01/18) World Human Rights
Award (WHRA) is held in Jakarta today for the first time. The
festival focuses on filmmakers and human rights activists. The
Award Ceremony in Radio Republic of Indonesia Auditorium on
January 18, 2016 coincide with the Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
This event is attended by filmmakers from outside and inside the
country, the official parliament, journalists, Human rights
activists and society.
215 films from all over the world participated to be selected
since the festival open its registration. Damien Dematra as the
founder and the director from this festival said that the
purpose of this festival is to inspired the world, that out
there, there�s a lot of people who cares about human rights and
willingly to fight for it. This festival is designed to be the
stage for the activists of human rights who the world doesn�t
know, but keep on fighting for human rights continously.
According to the president of Radio Republic of Indonesia (RRI),
Dra. Rosarita Niken Widiastuti, Msi., RRI supports this festival
because this festival has a very noble purpose, that is the
dignity and the tribute to human rights, considering that human
rights fulfillment has to be achieved together. Including the
media has to keep supporting the dignity of human rights. Human
rights including the freedom of opinion, doing communication and
receiving information.
The winner for Best Film for World Human Rights Award (WHRA)
goes to the People of Nowhere directed by Lior Sperandeo. This
documentary film portrait the journey of the director to Lesvos,
Greek. He shot the heavy struggle of the Syrian refugees who
always hope to stay alive and survive. The director who is very
touched with what he sees meets the volunteers from all over the
world who help all the victims. They all work together without
discriminating the race, religion and their own different
background.
�This film is the best film about human rights so far that i�ve
ever watched. This film can change our lives for betterment, and
open our eyes that wherever we are in the world, there will
always be hope for peace,� said, Damien Dematra, who is also a
film director.
All the winning films of Word Human Rights Awards (WHRA) and
other partner film festivals will be screened in Russian Culture
Center and few Universities and screening places from January 21
to January 30 2016. |
