SIGNIS MEDIA N°2/2018 Publication trimestrielle multilingue / Multilingual quarterly magazine / Revista trimestral multilingüe ISSN 0771-0461 - Publication trimestrielle - Bureau de Poste Bruxelles X - Juillet 2018 X - Juillet Bruxelles de Poste trimestrielle - Bureau ISSN 0771-0461 - Publication to Build On Contents 4 Cover Story 90 Years to Build On 18 Journalism Safety of Journalists 12 Cinema Presence in the Festivals 20 Radio Radio as Peacemaker Eyecatcher SIGNIS VJ Stanley Hector at Cannes Stanley Hector, 23, from SIGNIS India had his latest short film screened at the International Cannes Film Festival, among 19 from India. Entitled Midnight at 2, it was shot and produced in Indore in May 2017 and is his sixth short film. The story revolves around two strangers, a girl and a boy, sharing a moment of profound silence on the balconies of their homes at 2 am. Everything started for Stanley during a college event where he made promotional videos for his college’s E-Cell (an initiative by National Entrepreneurship Network) and gained instant appreciation for the medium. His first short film, Pedal which found its place among the top 10 national submissions of IIT Indore’s cultural festival, Fluxus, was selected by Pocket Films, an online YouTube channel for short film promotion, and was also nominated at the Sutradhar Film Festival, Indore, and submitted to the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, for judging. His second short film, The Wall was screened at the SIGNIS Film Festival in Malaysia and Patna. Pocket Films also picked it up. Stanley attended the 2015 Artisans for a Culture of Peace SIGNIS media workshop (now known as CommLab) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. In June 2017, he participated in the advanced SIGNIS CommLab seminar in Quebec, Canada, where with other participants from Africa and Asia, he produced a short documentary called Yves for Lauberivière, a local NGO working with the homeless. Currently working at a production house in Mumbai, Stanley hopes to gather enough experience to direct his first feature length film. Flexcia D’souza 2 – SIGNIS Media – N°2/2018 Editorial SIGNIS MEDIA 90 Years to Build On Publication trimestrielle éditée par SIGNIS, l’Association catholique mondiale In 2018 SIGNIS will celebrate 90 years of the foundation of the two organizations that pour la communication in 2001 merged to become SIGNIS. Both Unda, the World Catholic Association for Radio and Television, and OCIC, the International Catholic Organization for Cinema Quarterly published by SIGNIS, and Audiovisual, started in 1928 as part of the vitality of the Catholic Action with the the World Catholic Association aim to bring Catholic communicators to the global stages in the field of communication, for Communication culture and media. Publicación trimestral editada por SIGNIS, Last April, at the former Leo XIII Seminary, in Leuven, the SIGNIS Board of Directors la Asociación Católica Mundial celebrated the anniversary with a tribute to three key personalities of the mother organizations: Fr. Abel Brohée, Mgr. Jean Bernard and Mgr. Jacques Haas; and presented para la Comunicación Casimir Goossens, the first SIGNIS treasurer with the SIGNIS International Merit Award. SIGNIS This issue wishes to mark the 90th anniversary of SIGNIS focusing on the values by Rue Royale, 310 – 1210 Brussels – Belgium highlighting the values with which the mother organizations committed themselves and to Tel: 32 (0)2 734 97 08 – Fax: 32 (0)2 734 70 18 show how such values are alive today and present in the professional world of the SIGNIS members. The 90 years are a meeting point with a history we are building together. E-mail: [email protected] signis.net @SIGNIS 90 ans qui construisent l'avenir facebook.com/signisworld youtube.com/user/signisworld En 2018, SIGNIS célèbre les 90 ans de la fondation des deux organisations qui, en flickr.com/photos/signisworld 2001, décidèrent de fusionner pour donner naissance à une nouvelle association. Unda (Association Catholique Mondiale pour la Radio et la Télévision) et l’OCIC (Organisation Catholique Internationale du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel) ont vu le jour en 1928 sous Editor: l’impulsion de l’Action catholique dans le but de rendre présents les communicateurs Guido CONVENTS catholiques sur les scènes internationales dans le domaine de la communication, de la Editorial Team: culture et des médias. Guido CONVENTS En avril dernier, le conseil d’administration de SIGNIS a célébré cet anniversaire en Larry RICH rendant hommage à trois personnalités clés des organisations mères : le père Abel Brohée, Edgar RUBIO Mgr. Jean Bernard et Mgr. Jacques Haas. Casimir Goossens, premier trésorier de SIGNIS, Ricardo YÁÑEZ a également reçu le Prix international du mérite SIGNIS. Ce numéro du SIGNIS Media veut marquer les 90 ans de SIGNIS en mettant l’accent Lay-out: sur les valeurs fondatrices de ces organisations et en présentant comment ces valeurs sont Pascale HEYRBAUT encore en vie aujourd’hui dans la pratique professionnelle des membres de SIGNIS. Les 90 Translation Team: ans sont un point de rencontre avec une histoire que nous construisons ensemble. Marc BOURGOIS Alejandro HERNÁNDEZ 90 años en pos de seguir construyendo Beatrice RAPHEL Isabelle VERBRUGGE En 2018 SIGNIS celebra 90 años de la fundación de las asociaciones que en 2001 le dieron Administration: su origen. Ambas Unda, la Asociación Católica Mundial para la Radio y la Televisión; y Fabienne DESEAU OCIC, la Organización Católica Internacional del Cine y del Audiovisual, comenzaron en 1928 a partir del impulso de la Acción Católica con el objetivo de hacer presentes a los Florentina GONZALO comunicadores católicos en los escenarios internacionales del campo de la comunicación, Publisher: la cultura y los medios. SIGNIS Secretary General En abril pasado, en el antiguo Seminario León XIII de Lovaina, el Consejo Directivo de SIGNIS quiso celebrar el aniversario rindiendo homenaje a tres personalidades centrales Annual subscription: 30 Euros de las asociaciones madre: el Padre Abel Brohée, Mons. Jean Bernard y Mons. Jacques For three years: 70 Euros Haas; y distinguiendo a Casimir Goossens, primer tesorero de SIGNIS con el Premio Payment may be made via Credit Card SIGNIS al Mérito Internacional. 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N°2/2018 – SIGNIS Media – 3 Cover story Representatives of five schools in Honiara (the Pacific) participated in a series of Media Education Seminars by Don Bosco held at Kola Ridge, Honiara in 2018, in which short videos were producted. 90 Years to Build On In 2018, SIGNIS will celebrate its 90th Anniversary. laws of the member states through the presence of ICOs. Indeed, OCIC, Unda and UCIP, the associations that SIGNIS still has its statute of consultor at UNESCO, merged in 2001 to create SIGNIS, were all created in where discussing the digital world is one of the main 1928. The foundation of those three organisations was issues. SIGNIS and other ICOs are there to fight for a all about Catholic lay people working in these media who “New World” with human and spiritual dimensions. were convinced that they could explain, promote and defend the values of the Gospel in society worldwide. Prophetic International Radio, TV and Film Work Much of what was developed by these organisations at the time are still the fundaments of what SIGNIS is. One In the beginning radio was regarded as a family matter The media and had to be a professional among the professionals in the where the Church wanted to be present. It was also in the communication secular media to have an impact on them. The heart of the beginning a medium for the broad public as a large part were and still are matter was that the Vatican needed the laity to provoke of the population couldn’t read or write. The presence key as clearly part changes in the secular world through Catholic Action. of Catholics in radio was not only to broadcast religious of culture while also The media and communication were key as clearly part teachings but also educational programmes, reinforcing playing a role in of culture while also playing a role in shaping culture. To social cohesion and emancipatory development. In the shaping culture. have a voice in the League of Nations, Catholic lay people USA, the local radio stations were important for civil rights created OCIC, to influence educational cinema and movements, often more effective than print media and lawmaking on film, with other International Catholic television. In Latin America the Catholic radio Sutatenza, Organisations (ICOs). A few years later, after the Second started in 1947, is an early example of this development. World War, all three organisations did everything they Today ALER, the Latin American Association for Radio could to assure their statute as consultants in UNESCO Education, and international member of SIGNIS, to make certain that Christian values would be present supports community radio, media justice and indigenous in the media discussions and in the implementing of rights throughout Latin America, giving the voice to the 4 – SIGNIS Media – N°2/2018 Cover story voiceless, minorities and the excluded.