THEY’RE YOUR RIGHTS, WHAT DO THEY MEAN TO YOU?

• The Victorian Charter of Human Rights comes into effect this year and Right Now is looking for young media makers, artists, and writers between the ages of 15 and 29 to express their thoughts, feelings and ideas about human rights.
• We’re looking for the best entries in the areas of film, pod casts, creative essay and design.
• Perhaps you would like to visually represent freedom of expression, maybe make a documentary on a person who has escaped a situation where they were not guaranteed human rights, maybe you feel that there is not enough done to ensure we can exercise these rights and would like to write about it or maybe you'd like to record your thoughts or interviews to your favorite or your own music and make a podcast.
  
• Be bold, be creative and enter Right Now to get your work and your opinions out there.
• Your audience and judges are, like you, young people who are switched on and want to hear what you have to say.
• All entries will be uploaded onto Vibewire.net where visitors to the site will vote for their favorite film, essay, design and podcast.
• The entry from each of category with the most votes wins.
• The winning entrants will not just have their work shown on Vibewire.net; with our partners in the media industry we will get your work out there to inspire thousands.

ENTRIES CLOSE JUNE 25TH.

WINNERS ANNOUNCED JULY 25TH.

• Entry Rules

• Entry Use Conditions

• More about the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission
• Download the Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities – (pdf file)
  

PRIZES

We want to give our winners extra exposure, on top of having their work up on Vibewire.net. The winning design with an excerpt from the winning essay will be printed on 8000 Avant Card postcards and distributed around Victoria. The winning essay will be published in full in Voiceworks magazine. The winning podcast will be featured on syn.org.au and the winning short film will be screened around Australia as part of Reelife film festival.

DESIGN PRIZES The winning entrant of the design category will receive a year’s subscription to Empty magazine and free pass to the Semi Permanent design conference in 2009.	ESSAY PRIZES The winning entrant of the creative essay category will receive a beautiful back issue collection of Dumbo Feather Pass It On (as well as a year’s subscription) and subscriptions to The Monthly, Wet Ink and Voiceworks magazine. The winner will also receive a $100 gift voucher to Collins Bookstores and a double event pass to Melbourne Writer’s Festival.
PODCAST PRIZES The winning entrant of the podcast category will receive a free course of their choice at CAE as well a Behringer podcast studio bundle and a pair of Behringer MS-16 speakers from Audio Oz.	FILM PRIZES The winning entrant of the short film category will receive a free course of their choice at CAE, a year’s subscription to Film Ink magazine, a double pass to Melbourne International Film Festival and prize package from ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image) including 20 tickets to ACMI Cinemas and a selection of ACMI exhibition catalogues and publications.

ABOUT OUR MEDIA PARTNERS

Avant Card

Avant Cards are free postcards displayed in a variety of diverse venues that can be accessed by 4 million viewers each week.
Avant Cards are a progressive advertising medium that has promoted artistic and community events, film releases, products and services, health campaigns, environmental concerns and social issues since 1992.

For 15 years Avant Card has aspired to transform an advertising medium into an effective communication channel via postcards that are works of art.

www.avantcard.com.au

Voiceworks/Express Media

Voiceworks Magazine is the flagship project of Express Media. It is a national, quarterly magazine that features exciting new writing by young Australians. It is a unique opportunity for writers and artists to publish their poetry, short stories, articles and comics, illustrations, drawings, photos and more. It is produced entirely by young people and relies totally on contributions from the readers to make up the content.

Express Media’s other projects include The John Marsden Prize for Young Australian Writers, Buzzcuts; an annual arts reviewing project, a wide range of workshops all over Australia, from zine-making to media law and special publishing projects like Incommunicado, Tiny Epics and Nanoworks.

www.expressmedia.org.au/voiceworks.php

SYN

A Melbourne independent youth media organization, SYN, is one of the largest youth projects in Australia and has over 1,000 volunteers.

Broadcasting on one of the largest community radio licenses in Victoria, SYN, can be heard throughout Melbourne, Geelong and in parts of regional Victoria.

SYN also produces live youth television each week for Channel 31 and produces a regular e-zine and a range of other original publications.

Syn.org.au is an interactive online community for people under the age of 26 to exhibit, distribute and share their content to their peers and the world.

syn.org.au

Reelife

Vibewire’s Reelife Short Film Festival is part of the Australia’s independent film landscape. Reelife taps into the ever-growing demand for youth inspired and created media, and provides opportunities for young people to express themselves.
Reelife Short Film Festival is an issues-based festival of youth filmmaking, which encourages young Australians to make films on issues they care about. Reelife is about giving young people an opportunity to reveal something about their life, viewpoints and beliefs through the medium of film.

http://www.reelifefilmfestival.net/

Trouble Magazine

Trouble is a groundbreaking street press arts magazine, distributing
up to 15,000 FREE copies monthly through a network of more than 800
art-relevant locations throughout Melbourne and regional Victoria.
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Trouble – get into it.

www.introuble.com.au

ABOUT OUR PROJECT SPONSORS

The Victorian Equal Opportunity & Human Rights Commission

The Victorian Equal Opportunity & Human Rights Commission is an independent statutory body that reports to the Victorian Parliament through the State Attorney-General.

The commission administers three pieces of legislation:

    * The Equal Opportunity Act 1995 - (The Act is currently being reviewed, click here for more information)
    * The Racial and Religious Tolerance Act 2001
    * The Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006

The Commission’s role is to:

    * Help to resolve individual and representative complaints about discrimination, sexual harassment and racial and religious vilification by offering a conciliation process that is confidential, impartial, free and simple.

    * Provide education about equality of opportunity, racial and religious tolerance and human rights.

    * Undertake projects and activities aimed at eliminating discrimination and racial and religious intolerance
   
* Conduct research and provide legal and policy advice

 * Undertake specific functions in relation to the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities, which include
          - Providing an independent assessment of how well State and local Government comply with the Charter
          - Investigating particular human rights issues and concerns.

www.humanrightscommission.vic.gov.au

Breakout Design and Print

 Breakout have spent 23 years delivering top quality design, print and internet solutions at the best prices.

Breakout Support people through the work of Justice Action, which promotes awareness of the inadequacies and failures of the criminal justice system and actively involves and empowers those who suffer.

 www.breakout.net.au

ABOUT OUR PRIZE SPONSORS

Each person’s passion is unique whether it’s baking the best 100% natural sourdough bread in the world, producing fabulous fashion in remote Northern Pakistan, writing poetry, making music, fighting for human rights, finding a cure for malaria, painting, choreographing, exploring, wine making or film making.

In each issue of Dumbo Feather, five remarkable individuals tell their stories. Their backgrounds and dreams are as unique as they are, but what unites them is their creativity, passion and integrity, and somewhere they found the courage to fly. In their own words they tell you how they discovered their passion, what inspires them, the lows as well as the highs on the journey and ultimately why they do what they do.

dumbofeather.com

The Monthly, a national magazine of politics, society and the arts, arrived in 2005. It is published by the people who bring you Black Inc. books and the Quarterly Essay. It is unlike any Australian publication that has come and gone before.

The Monthly is intelligent and inquisitive, witty and wise. It doesn’t dumb down or suck up. The Monthly is rooted in simple but powerful storytelling. It doesn’t moan, or earbash, or take itself too seriously. The Monthly gives space to long essays and thoughtful reviews, to investigative journalism and zingy reportage, to bold photography and a brash design. It doesn’t get bogged down in bloated columns by boring hacks. The Monthly is human

www.themonthly.com.au

 






Empty is a bi monthly magazine by the folks at Design Is Kinky. It is concerned with creativity, in all its forms. It's really that simple.

www.emptymag.com/

Semi-Permanent, another project of Design Is Kinky, is a design event. It consists of a conference and side events which include exhibitions, competitions, workshops and parties. It’s a week long celebration of all things design. Graphic Design, Film, Art, Illustration, Web Design, Photography, Visual Effects, Animation, Graffiti, Motion Graphics, Stop Motion; all these things and more. Semi-Permanent explores the diverse and exciting design world bringing together exceptionally talented artists and designers to speak at the event.

www.semipermanent.com

 






Film Ink brings you the latest movie reviews, video and DVD releases, film news, industry information both Australian and international. Film Ink specialises in independent and Hollywood cinema releases.

www.filmink.com.au/

Collins Booksellers was born in Melbourne in 1922 and is a specialist, professional bookselling company with 34 franchised outlets. By providing the widest possible range of books and book-related merchandise with a knowledgeable and courteous staff, Collins strives to maintain its position as Australia's pre-eminent bookseller.

www.collinsbooks.com.au

Wet Ink is put together by a passionate team of writers and a designer who decided to do something about the lack of opportunities for writers to publish their short works and readers to access them.

www.wetink.com.au

CAE is the largest provider of adult and community education in Victoria for more than 60 years, CAE’s specialised range of courses include art, design, crafts, fashion, visual and performing arts, writing, wellbeing, fitness, lifestyles, languages and business.

CAE provides creative and innovative approaches to learning, allowing students to freely express, challenge and reinvent. A range of courses in visual arts, performing arts and writing & publishing as well as allied activities offer strong creative opportunities to the Melbourne community.

CAE has always nurtured the arts and artists in Melbourne with creative and innovative approaches to learning and education with an entertainment edge. CAE allows you to tap into your own creativity with exciting digital media and design courses.

www.cae.edu.au

 Based in Melbourne, Audio Oz have supplied audio equipment, expert advice and service to Australia's recording studios, post-production facilities, the broadcast industry, theatre groups and live acts for over 21 years. Their business was built and continues to grow on the foundations of exceptional service, great pricing, expert advice and their commitment to their customers. Audio Oz have donated the Behringer MS16 compact 2-way stereo speaker system and the Behringer podcast-studio recording package, which the winner of the podcast category will receive. The Beringer podcast-studio recording package comes with a studio-grade USB audio interface as well as comprehensive DAW and podcasting software. The package also features a professional 5-input mixer with 2-band ‘British’ EQ, high-quality headphones and a dynamic broadcast-style microphone plus cable.

The Behringer MS16 compact 2-way stereo speaker system is comprised of two high-power amplifiers drive the 4’’ woofers and the high-resolution tweeters. The front-mounted volume control and individual bass and treble controls make accurate sound adjustments.
 
www.myspace.com/audiooz

www.audiooz.com.au

Australia's pre-eminent and much loved Film Festival, MIFF is an iconic event on Melbourne's cultural calendar.

MIFF hosts a feast of cinematic delicacies from over 50 countries for some 17 days each winter, heavily garnished with a range of parties and special events that envelope the CBD.  In addition to screening the very best in world cinema, MIFF is Australia’s largest showcase of new Australian cinema and most vocal champion of both emerging and established local film making talent.  From it’s earliest days MIFF has provided audiences with a unique window on the world and has acted as the leading intellectual and artistic catalyst in Australia’s screen cultural landscape.


www.melbournefilmfestival.com.au

ACMI is the Australian Centre for the Moving Image

From the wonders of more than a century of cinema, to television, computer games and the screen-based art of the future, ACMI is the place to find out everything about the moving image.

www.acmi.net.au

Ten days of chat, banter and provocation with the world’s top writers, Melbourne Writers’ Festival is where ideas come alive and words are made flesh. Whether you want to take flights of fancy or be brought down to earth, there’s bound to be a session or two in the more than 250 events that you will want to hear.
Melbourne Writers’ Festival, from 22 August to 31 August 2008, is at Federation Square in Melbourne's heart.

www.mwf.com.au