Terms and Conditions for Your Story!

HerStory Film Project
INVITE YOU TO SEND IN YOUR STORY!
Terms and Conditions:

1. Content:
a) Stories from own experiences (as a woman or a person identified as a woman)
b) As a witness to someone else’s experience in relation to the writer, eg: how by witnessing that event affect the storyteller.

2. Format:
a) narrative story (no more than 5 pages, font size 12, Times New Roman, Double Spacing)
b) Screenplay format (no more than 10 pages, Courier, font size 12, double spacing)
c) Audio form (cassette, cd or wav if send online; to cater for women who can’t write, eg: stories from your grandmother)

3. Language: Malay or English (dialogue in stories can be of any language spoken in Malaysia as long as a translation is provided in Malay or English.

4. Please include details below with your stories:
a. Name: (please specify if you would like to use a pen name if the stories is to be made public but do send us your real name for working purposes.)
b. Pen Name: (if required)
c. Address:
d. Handphone:
e. Housephone:
f. Email:
g. Please give a brief background on yourself eg. where do you grow up, what do you do etc. (not more than 100 words).
h. Please state if the stories is from your own experience or did you bear witness to someone else’s, and why do you want to tell this story. (not more than 100 words).

5. Selection of the final 20 stories by the panel of juries is final. Information on the juries will be published here soon.

6. The selected storytellers are to workshop their stories with Herstory organizers and women filmmakers to be made into scripts and then into films together, if chosen.

7. The 20 stories will be workshop and from there, a selection of 5 stories (or more, depending on funding and resources) will be made into short films.

8. When finished, the films will be part of ‘Women In Love’ Film Fest that will be brought to all over Malaysia, made available online, in workshops as well as screened in any other avenue possible.

9. By sending us the stories, storytellers agreed to all the terms and conditions above.

10. Deadline for stories to be received is 5pm, 31 January 2010.

11. Stories to be send to/ contact info:

∑ Email: herstory@kryss.org
∑ Address:
Herstory Films Project
B-10-10,
USJ One Avenue,
Persiaran Mewah,
USJ 1, 47600
Subang Jaya,
Selangor.
∑ Website: herstoryfilmsproject.blogspot.com
∑ Phone: 012-6969455