In a bid to promote awareness of road safety in Dubai, the Emirates have comes up with a new initiative, the Road Safety Film Festival, which aims towards accomplishing multidisciplinary education through engagement. This festival targets young filmmakers, giving them the opportunity to showcase their talent while promoting road safety in the UAE.
The festival expects entries from young filmmakers in Dubai and from other Emirates along the Dubai-Abu Dhabi road, due to the increasing collaborative nature of YouTube. It is expected that skilled people over the age of 18 and below 35 will create change through groundbreaking ideas that facilitate and spark change.
Three Categories to Highlight Road Safety
As the festival promotes documentations and narrations, the participants will be able to portray not only the issues, but also the solutions associated with reckless driving on roads. They encourage young filmmakers to think about traffic deaths and educated clueless audiences. The faire will focus and feature risk-based, heuristic, observational, narrative, and prescriptive documentaries.
The categorias are:
Best Awareness Film: Films that address critical concerns regarding road safety such as accidents while highlighting the behaviors or actions which perpetuate them and the preventative measures that can be taken.
Best Creative Approach: Films that use imagination or recreational artistry to get the point across about road safety and employ unique methods of story-telling.
Best Student Film: This award is solely set aside for students, intended to encourage youth to express their views on road safety issues using their imagination and creative abilities.
An Opportunity to Gain Recognition and Win Prizes
All winners of each category will receive not only a certificate of achievement but also recognition for their efforts toward raising awareness on road safety which constitutes a significant contribution. In addition to their acclaim, they will receive monetary awards for being the first place winners in each category, assuring the filmmakers that their efforts will prevail with the production of the compelling films that will be created.
This is not only a competition, but is aimed at allowing young filmmakers to be seen and recognized, while also contributing positively to a cause that affects the safety and health of people. The films will be winners of competitions and will be aired on numerous platforms where they will be able to reach many people and the message of road safety will be spread not only in Dubai, but also all over the world.Encouraging Youth Participation
The RTA engages young people through region-wide competitions like “The Road Safety Film Festival” which aims to encourage creativity and innovation at the university and post-graduate levels. This competition uses the already established skills of university and postgraduate filmmakers to bridge road safety awareness and creativity.
Apart from promoting creativity, this festival encourages filmmakers to research the reasons behind traffic accidents such as speeding, distracted driving, lack of proper safety measures, and low community proactive responsible driving awareness, and explore the importance of driving and behavior on roads. With the RTA’s efforts to empower these voices, more responsible driving and a greater culture of safety is promoted in Dubai.
Empowering Members of Society
The RTA has taken advantage of audiovisual materials through the Road Safety Film Festival to educate people about safe driving. Documentaries and films have been used as a medium of delivering educational content. The RTA initiative gives fresh filmmakers a chance to create remarkable informative materials to motivate society to act towards safer roads.
The competition’s films have the potential to change attitudes and behaviors on the road by addressing issues like speeding, reckless driving, distracted driving, and seat belt usage. The festival also gives young filmmakers the ability to use their skills for a good cause and impact the community in a very positive way.
There are no Requirements, but the Submission and Deadline details will be set forth by the organizers.
Filmmakers interested in the Road Safety Film Festival can submit their entries online via the official competition website. All required documentation must be accompanied with a completed entry form. Length requirements need to be followed, but the content boundaries are set only by the creativity, awareness, and the messages the filmmakers wish to convey about traffic accidents and their consequences.
There is little time left to submit the entries, so the aspiring filmmakers are encouraged to work on their ideas, as winning recognition along with making Dubai roads safer for everyone would be a real merit.
Conclusion: An Artistic Appeal for Action on Road Safety
The Road Safety Film Festival offers an opportunity for young creatives to use their skills for a good purpose: to enhance road safety and save lives in Dubai. The competition adds to the creativity and positive change as it allows the young people to challenge the public to behavior change campaigns and more advocacy on the causes and dangers of road accidents.
Throughout the entire course of the competition, the participants will surely showcase their imaginative skills, love for social good, and deep concern for social issues which will eventually aid towards nurturing a society where road safety is not simply wished for but practiced by everyone.
