Past FreedomFilmFest Awards

The Freedom Film Festival sets out a theme each year to inspire regional and international filmmakers to explore and engage with topical human rights and social issues of the day. The Freedom Film Festival then celebrates the finest international and regional feature films, documentaries, shorts that tell the most compelling human rights stories with the Justin Louis Award.

In 2018 The Festival starts to award the prize to student film makers as we realized the need to recognise student filmmakers for their unique perspectives and the immediacy of their voices to our cinematic tableau.

The best of the Films in Competition each year are selected by the Festival Jury and awarded the Justin Louis Award, in recognition of the human right activist, in the following categories.

• Best Feature Film
• Best Feature Film from South East Asia (regional)
• Best Feature Documentary
• Best Short Film
• Best Short Documentary
• Best Student Film
• Special FFF Film Grant Program Winners

In addition to its regular films in competition, the Freedom Film Festival Film Grant is a highly competitive pre-festival Call to Pitch program to grant funding to selected films that we believe address issues that need greater exposure and financial backing.

Past FreedomFilmFest Award Winners

FFF2019

Harga Naik, Gaji Maintain

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