Dunia Moja Human Rights Film Festival

Dunia Moja Human Rights Film Festival promises to institutionalize a platform in Kenya dedicated to exhibiting and promoting African and global film and artistic works as tools of social-commentary in the tradition of the Human Rights Film Festival.

Each year starting in 2008, we pledge to showcase and promote powerful films and artistic works that will not only entertain but also engage, educate and promote constructive dialogue among our audiences by putting a human face to the historic and every-day obstacles to the attainment of individual and collective freedom, dignity and equality in the context of contemporary Africa and the world.

The festival is also timely as it comes in the heels of the recent 2007 post-elections dispute in Kenya that exposed the need to strengthen democratic institutions and the personal as well as institutional recognition of human rights.

Dunia Moja Human Rights Film Festival aspires to achieve the following:

• Educate & galvanize a broad constituency of concerned citizens by increasing awareness of human rights, civil duties, and the duties of the state.
• Promote the concept of human rights not as impersonal jargon associated with noise-making NGOs, but rather as an expression of common, every-day aspirations flowing through our past, present and future and innately interwoven in our beings and in the national, regional and global fabric.
• Empower everyone with the knowledge that personal commitment can make a very real difference.
• Offer a platform for debate and dialogue on past and present issues shaping the landscape and trajectory of Kenya to enhance coexistence and perpetuate oneness among audiences by promoting shared understandings of the past, present challenges & dilemmas and future possibilities.
• Converge and celebrate artistic talent and creative potential in the region
• Nurture artistic talent among the youth by providing them with the knowledge, skills and networks to move their ideas beyond imagination into powerful works that question the very foundations of self, community, nation and the world.
• Lay the foundations for a striving human rights film and arts industry and circuit in Kenya and the East African region.
• Serve as a strategic bridge between the arts and rights-based activism and advocacy in Eastern Africa and Africa in general
• Inspire community-based partnerships and advocacy initiatives around the inaugural and subsequent festivals.

The Dunia Moja Human Rights Film Festival proposes to carry out a multi-pronged, publicity approach that will link artists and their productions to: the general public, civil servants & trade union members, policy makers, community leaders, the academic community (students, teachers, and other staff), the media, local and international civil society organizations and development actors, national, provincial and district-level government representatives/officials and diplomats, human rights practitioners and activists, the private sector, film enthusiasts, pundits and film industry players from Kenya, the East African region, Africa and the world.