Arts in Healing International Film Festival
The festival invites filmmakers from around the world to submit their works (in person in Portland OR or virtually). The festival aims to highlight innovative work that has been documented in the therapeutic and healing arts from the United States and around the world. The festival will feature a broad spectrum of films that reflect various therapeutic art modalities in the helping profession.
The festival will feature a broad spectrum of films that reflect various therapeutic art modalities in the helping profession. This involves multiple expressive media types that span across disciplines which includes and is not limited to: Art, Music, Dance, Psychodrama, Drama, Storytelling, Poetry, Play Therapy, Sand tray, Expressive Therapy etc. We welcome films that document collaboration across disciplines, organizations, and groups to generate public and interdisciplinary awareness and interconnectivity among the healing arts for advocacy and social transformation.
Submission Lengths:
- Short Films (5-15 mins)
- Feature Films/Documentaries (Max length 1hr)
Disciplines represented: Art, Music, Dance, Psychodrama, Drama, Storytelling, Poetry, Play Therapy, Sand tray, Expressive Arts Therapy
Awards:
- People's Choice Award
- Best Short: Applying the Arts In Healing
- Best Feature: Applying the Arts In Healing
- Best Short: About Arts In Healing
- Best Feature About Arts In Healing
- “The Judy” Judy Rubin Film Award- integrates two or more content areas
Content Areas:
- An impactful example of social transformation
- An impactful example of antiracism
- An impactful example of equity based community practices
- An impactful examples of theory in practice
- Innovative couples work
- Innovative group work
- Innovative individual work
- Innovative family work
- Centering people of the global majority
- Centering LGBTQ+ voices
- Centering Indigenous practices and voices
- Centering Black voices
- Centering Disability Justice
- Highlight individual and psychological change. Content might include: mental illness, trauma and recovery.
- Also arts therapies in a variety of settings ie.; schools, community centers, museums, hospitals, prisons, retirement communities.