Short Film Commission Where is the Money for Women’s Rights and HIV? – We Are Watching
Project Summary
Location:
From home station with a global focus
Duration of contract:
10 days to be completed within one month
Timeframe:
October 2010
Budget:
3000 euro commission to deliver an edited short of 2-3 minutes duration in multiple formats for distribution via TV - Internet - and general release.
Interested persons should send a brief treatment and shot list/paper edit to womenshivfilm@gmail.comno later than September 1st 2010 .
Late submissions will not be accepted.
Experience Required
- Relevant experience developing original, short films with professional standards
- Ability to work both independently and also engage partners, incorporate feedback and demonstrate flexibility
- Ability to create exciting, fresh and captivating short videos
- Provide links to previously work produced that can be viewed by the commissioners.
Key Issues and Responsibility
The World AIDS Campaign, the World YWCA and the Women Won’t Wait Campaign are seeking a qualified consultant to support this process. The main responsibilities are to:
Under a broad theme of “Where is the Money for Women’s Rights and HIV?” create a 2-3minute video that highlights:
- The realities of women and girls around the globe, particularly in regards to HIV related human rights violations
- The money that is needed to work towards overcoming these violations
- How money is misspent by governments instead of investing in women’s rights, going for example towards military expenditure instead of financing for women.
The World AIDS Campaign, the World YWCA and the Women Won’t Wait Campaign are looking for a creative, original film maker that can develop an attractive, eye-catching spot that powerfully conveys the message that there is enough money for women’s rights in the context of HIV, but it is being misspent.
The consultant would be expected to deliver an edited short of 2-3 minutes duration in multiple formats for distribution via TV and Internet. This would include a general release on the subject of funding for women's rights and HIV. The work can be video, animation, stills, cgi or a combination. The work (audio and visual) must be original and copyright cleared by all parties for use in perpetuity and any people featured should have signed "model consent" forms.
Background
“Where is the Money for HIV?” is a joint campaign building on ARASA’s work, which is planned to be undertaken in partnership by ARASA, APCASO, Art Global Health Center at UCLA, LACCASO, Mosaic (South Africa), World AIDS Campaign, World YWCA and Caribbean Broadcast Media Partnership on HIV.
As part of this campaign, World AIDS Campaign (WAC), World YWCA and the Women Won’t Wait Campaign will be working together to develop a brief, two to three minute, video campaign focusing on “Where is the Money for Women’s Rights and HIV?”
Although women’s organisations and especially grassroots groups have been responding to HIV and AIDS for a long time, recent reports indicate that they find it challenging to access quality sustainable resources for their work on AIDS (1). Yet, financing women’s empowerment and gender equality is essential in reversing the impact of the HIV and AIDS pandemic. Furthermore, women and girls are disproportionately burdened with unpaid care work. Shrinking public expenditure and the “commercialisation” of existing public services has had devastating impacts on women and girls especially in the context of the AIDS pandemic. There is a case to be made for an end to women’s unpaid labour subsidising states and reinvestment in existing public services such as health and education, so as to increase women’s economic security, empowerment and autonomy.(2)
Most women’s organisations are small: two-thirds of this survey sample has annual budgets of less than USD 50,000. In 2005, 729 women’s rights organisations worldwide had the collective income of only USD 79 million. More than half of the survey respondents are receiving less funding since 2000. This explains why 67% of the survey respondents expressed that they find it more difficult to raise funds than five years ago (only 16% find it easier) with over half of the organisations having to use more staff and resources for fundraising efforts. On average, organisations say they would need twice their budget to do all they wanted to do in 2006 (3).
With all the inequality civil society observe that governments in all regions do have money for expending in issues that are not prioritizing the human well being in the planet. Corruption plays a keys role in this process and mechanisms for monitoring and evaluation and HIV and AIDS programs and plans are not in place in the majority of countries worldwide. The use of funds goes from particular airplanes, presidential birthday parties, expensive banquets that cost over USD$250,000.00 and USD$700,000,000,000 for economic bail out, yet where is the money for women’s empowerment and women’s rights.
One year of the world’s military expenditures would be sufficient to finance 2928 years of the new women’s agency, and funding gender equality costs less than 20 percent of military spending. Yet it does not happen.(4)
This film seeks to highlight issues such as the above. Key resources to inform this work will include:
- Show Us the Money: is violence against women on the HIV&AIDS donor agenda? Washington, DC: Action Aid, 2007.Author: Susana T. Fried
- Women Won’t Wait Campaign; What Gets Measured Matters: Is violence against women on the HIV&AIDS Funding agenda? Johannesburg, SA: Action Aid; 2008. Author: Women Won’t Wait.
- You Get What you pay for! WILPF, 2009-2010.
- Promoting Gender Equality in HIV and AIDS Responses: Making Aid More Effective Through Tracking Results, United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) 2008.
- AWID Where is the money for women's rights? The Second Funder Report, June 2007
- Women Won’t Wait, What’s the budget? Where’s the Staff? Moving from policy to practice, August, 2010
- AWID
- You Get What you pay for! WILPF, 2009-2010.
