OUR PRIDE Shorts & Arts Fest

Welcome to the 2024 OUR PRIDE Shorts & Arts Fest, the global LGBTQIA+ content creators festival featuring short films, video, art and music.

2024 Theme: "Born Free & Equal: Human Rights are UNIVERSAL"
* 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

* NEW for 2024: videoPoetry

Our 2023 program featured 60 youth-produced short films, co-sponsored by the City of West Hollywood, California.

We welcome our partnership with InterPride member organizations around the world, including East Africa Visual Artists, the creators of "Human Rights are Universal" in Kampala, Uganda, a country embracing the world's harshest anti-LGBTQ laws enacted in May 2023.

2024 THEME: "Born Free & Equal" with entries highlighting the Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the face of personal and collective struggles in the global LGBTQIA+ community, featuring such topics as Social Justice, Human Rights, Current Issues, Mental Health, Personal Stories, Local Pride, LGBTQIA+ Community & History, and more.

Social Justice issues highlight: Amnesty / Immigration, Disability Justice, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Gender Justice, Health Justice, Racial Justice, and Reproductive Justice.

DETAILS: http://OurPride.org

Categories: Narrative Short, Documentary Short, Animation Short, News Story, PSA, Music Video, Social Video Series (3 or more videos). We encourage you to highlight compassion, resilience or solidarity in the LGBTQIA+ community, highlighting such topics as Social Justice, Human Rights, Current Issues, Mental Health, Personal Stories, Local Pride, Community, and History.

LANGUAGE:
Submissions must be in English or contain English subtitles.
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* There is no limit to the number of submissions per submitter, provided they are separate submissions.

* All submissions must be uploaded by the regular deadline.

HOW THIS FESTIVAL WORKS:
We are an online video festival event. If accepted, you will upload your video to your personal online video account (YouTube, Vimeo, etc) and provide us with a link to the video.

In the event that your video is accepted to this festival, you will receive an email that explains how to submit your final for public viewing.

You will then need to upload your video before the festival start date.

The video must not (i) infringe any rights of publicity or privacy, moral rights or IP rights, including any music-related rights, (ii) be defamatory or indecent, and (iii) violate any applicable laws. You must have obtained and been able to prove that you have all the necessary rights to the music in your video.