FreedomFilmFest, also known as The KOMAS Freedom Film Festival (FFF), is the first annual
documentary film festival
Documentary film festivals are film festivals devoted solely to documentary film, which is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to "document" reality.
Although "documentary film" originall ...
in
Malaysia
Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of continental Eurasia, it is a federation, federal constitutional monarchy consisting of States and federal territories of Malaysia, 13 states and thre ...
. Established in 2003, it adopts the themes encompassed in the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is an international document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly that enshrines the Human rights, rights and freedoms of all human beings. Drafted by a UN Drafting of the Universal D ...
(UDHR), pioneering a documentary film competition method in Malaysia which encourages first-time film makers to turn their winning proposals into films.
FreedomFilmFest (FFF) is organized by KOMAS (Pusat Komuniti Masyarakat), a popular communications human rights center set up in August 1993 to service the organizing needs of grassroots communities and civil society organizations.
FFF was held in Penang for the first time in 2006
and subsequently have been brought to Johor and Kuching, Sarawak.
A retrospective of the winning films were also screened in London in 2009
References
External links
Official WebsiteThe Star: From Ideals to VideosFreedomFilmFest London
Film festivals in Malaysia
Human rights film festivals
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