We want to establish a film festival as a sustainable forum for raising awareness of youth workers and publics in Ethiopia about gender inequality in access to education, decision making and expression of needs by young girls. We want to teach and promote skills of filmmaking as opinion work and encourage youth workers by cooperation with kids, to call attention of local decision makers and publics both inside of the country and outside, to the obstacles that limits girls in education, active participation in local development, access to public services and personal growth.
The project is based on the massive learnings of the seed project See the Girl that we conducted previously in Ethiopia, where the idea of a film festival emerged naturally in discussions with teachers and activists.