Festival Data:

• Established: 1998
• Genre: Documentary (click to see)
• Attendance: 4000
• Media Attendance: 20
• Accredited Industry Attendance: 30
• Total Number of Films Submitted: 520
• Total Number of Films Screened: 50

• Competitive
• Has Panels
• Has Seminars

Festival Website:

Festival Description:

The UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION FILM FESTIVAL celebrates the power of international documentary films dealing with human rights issues, environmental themes, protection of refugees, famine, homelessness, racism, health, women's issues, children, universal education, war and peace. Unlike other film festivals, which focus on one theme, one part of the world or one ethnic group, UNAFF strives to provide a cross-section of the world by illuminating numerous issues from various countries, bound together by the common thread of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

To further this goal, UNAFF hosts academics and filmmakers from around the world to discuss the topics in the films with the audience, groups and individuals who are often separated by geography, ethnicity and economic constraints. In addition to its ongoing celebration of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in 2011 UNAFF will emphasize the theme: EDUCATION IS A HUMAN RIGHT.

"Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups" (Article 26, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights).

UNAFF gives these awards:

· UNAFF Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary

· UNAFF Grand Jury Award for Best Short Documentary

· UNAFF Youth Vision Award

· UNAFF/Stanford Video Award for Cinematography

· UNAFF/Stanford Video Award for Editing

Encouraged by overwhelming positive response from the audience and the media, UNAFF established a Traveling Film Festival which has taken place in San Francisco, Berkeley, Monterey, Santa Cruz, Davis, Saratoga, Sonoma, Sebastopol, San Diego, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Honolulu, Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington DC, New York, Burlington at University of Vermont, New Hampshire, Bellevue, Durham at Duke University, New Haven at Yale University, Waukesha at University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, Boston and Cambridge at Harvard University and internationally in Paris, Venice, Belgrade and Phnom Penh.

The United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF) was founded by Stanford educator and film critic Jasmina Bojic with the participation of the Stanford Film Society and United Nations Association Midpeninsula Chapter--a grassroots, community-based, nonprofit organization. As a journalist, educator and documentary filmmaker, she has seen firsthand the devastating effects of war, poverty, hatred and hunger. In its first decade of existence UNAFF has earned a number of accolades and achievements including the prestigious Earl W. Eames Award for innovatively combining new technologies with traditional media. For the last four years the mayor of Palo Alto has proclaimed the festival days as UNAFF Week, recognizing consistently the significance that this Stanford University event has for its community.

Film Submissions:

• Accepts direct submissions
• Submission formats: VHS, Beta-SP, DVD, Other
• Call for Entry: http:/ / www.unaff.org/ 2011/ submission.html