If you’re a filmmaker committed to social change, this is your chance to get yourself and those inspiring stories noticed around the world. The View Change Online Film Contest is inviting filmmakers to send in five-minute films that tell stories of progress in developing countries.

The categories are:

 The last date to send in your film has been extended to September 3, 2010, and you could stand to win $20,000 (about Rs 9.5 lakh). See details.

Freedom is indicative of Free Will; of the right — God-given, Nature-blessed, Constitutionally-protected — to decide. It is the freedom of expression, the freedom of choice, the freedom to express that choice.

Are you free? Why do you think you’re free? Why do you think you’re not?

These are the thoughts that have gone into launching Redefine: Freedom, an online participatory project that is inviting people to send in all kinds of videos and images that capture your idea of freedom.

“Our expression of independence on August 15 is so redundant, so we came up with the idea of redefining it,” says Faiza Ahmad Khan, one of the people involved in this community project. Khan’s earlier projects include the much-loved documentary, Supermen of Malegaon. “It is a way for us to re-evaluate the notions of freedom and how those notions have changed.”

The clips will be put together into a film that will be uploaded online, sent to festivals and shared with community media units, through the network of media people involved in the project.

So, go ahead, start rolling.

You can send in your videos all of August to redefinefreedom@gmail.com. Limit your files to 30 seconds.

For details, see: Redefine: Freedom

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– Mumbai Action Team