The Public Health Film Festival (PHFF) is a
film festival
A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region. Increasingly, film festivals show some films outdoors. Films may be of recent date and, depending upo ...
organised by the
Public Health Film Society (PHFS). The PHFF debuted in 2014, and takes place every two years. It specialises in screening films about
health
Health, according to the World Health Organization, is "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity".World Health Organization. (2006)''Constitution of the World Health Organiza ...
and is listed with the Internet Movie Database (
IMDb
IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, ...
).
The first three editions of the PHFF have been hosted by The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities (TORCH) at the
Radcliffe Humanities Department in
Oxford
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, England.
The theme for the 1st edition of the PHFF was "Public Health Past, Present and Future"; the 2nd, in 2016, was "Health For All"; the 3rd, in 2018, was "Growing Up Well"; and the 4th, in 2020, was "Health and wellbeing in a pandemic: stories told through film".
The 2nd, 3rd and 4th editions of the PHFF have hosted
screenings of winning
films from the
International Public Health Film Competition.
The 3rd edition of the PHFF saw the introduction of an Audience Award, which was won by the film ''Lucy: Breaking the Silence'' from
Fact Not Fiction Films.
External links
Official Website
References
Film festivals in England
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