11 October marks the International Day of the Girl, a day commemorating the need to recognize girls’ rights and shed light on the different challenges girls face all over the word. This year’s theme, ‘My voice, our equal future’, celebrates girls and works towards amplifying their voices, promoting girls’ empowerment and standing up for their rights. Starting from 11 October 2020, we marked this year’s International Day of the Girl with a range of digital activities to celebrate, empower and inspire!
WOW – Women of the World festival is a global movement, celebrating women and girls and looking at the obstacles that stop them from achieving their potential. WOW festivals are produced across the world to take a frank look at what prevents women and girls from achieving their potential, celebrate their achievements and raise awareness of the issues they face and discuss possible solutions. It is the biggest, most comprehensive and most significant festival dedicated to presenting work by women and promoting equality for women and girls.
A week of festivities in celebration of International of Day of the Girl 2020 where we shared stories of inspiring adolescent girls who are developing innovative solutions or leading efforts towards positive social change, including gender equality, in their communities, along with the below digital activities for all to enjoy and learn from:
Short Film Screening:
11-17 October 2020
This special screening was arranged in collaboration with Children's Film Society where the films showcased bright young female filmmakers, created a window to a greater world through visual storytelling for children while encouraging empathy, understanding and awareness. Age is but a number as the following films by girl filmmakers highlight that creativity can be found with the right encouragement and appreciation!
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Disclaimer: All rights reserved by Children’s Films Society Bangladesh (CFS) and filmmakers. No part of the filming may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or by other electronic or mechanical methods, without prior written permission of CFS or the filmmakers.
Talk on Parenting: Gender Equality Begins at Home
14 October 2020, 05.00 p.m.
We believe that gender equality begins at home where families can create positive social change. A timely talk for parents on how stereotyping and discrimination by parents between girl and boy children affects both boys and girls negatively in their young and adult lives. Conducted by eminent psychologist Dr. Mehtab Khanam over Facebook Live session where she talks about how parents can play a significant role in promoting gender equality, parent better and be role models in creating a happy, healthy and supportive home.
Watch here.
Mehtab Khanam (PhD), an honorary professor in the department of Psychology at the University of Dhaka, trains graduates and postgraduates on Counselling Psychology. She is trained and certified on Transactional Analysis and Neuro-linguistic programming and has participated in various courses and workshops on Counselling Psychology or Psychotherapy at home and abroad. Dr. Khanam served as a consultant counsellor for 'Ain O Shalish Kendra'. She used to supervise the research and content of the children’s edutainment television program “Sisimpur.” She regularly writes columns on mental health for the Daily Prothom Alo and answers the questions sent by the readers.
DIY Filmmaking for Children
16 October 2020
Did you know that children now can make short films with zero budget? All you need is a desire to create, simple equipment and a little bit of creative magic! Watch filmmaker Raka Noshin Nower talk about filmmaking for kids, quick tips and tricks on how to make films with the least amount of budget and the journey of how she ended up in the filmmaking industry, while being a student of engineering!
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Raka Noshin Nower is a director and writer with a passion for visual storytelling. Based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Raka’s directing style holds the essence of South-East Asian mediascape as well as western grooves. Making her debut with an advertisement for Sunsilk in 2017, the young director is refining her directorial skills by branching into narrative and social causes with conceiving and directing documentaries. Raka’s creative flexibility includes her playing with cinematic forms like editing. Completing graduation on engineering, she joined topmost production house of Bangladesh, Applebox films, in 2011, as a casting assistant and eventually began exploring her passion of filmmaking or directing.
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