“Human rights are important.

You are entitled to have access to quality education

and healthcare. Human rights protect us from abuse, allow us to stand up to
societal corruption and encourage freedom of speech and expression.” But
education is as important for individual transformation and social change.

And if I were to teach and deliver this message to the world, it will be through a
film. Film can be an effective tool for conveying this important message. Films can
help the world improve its knowledge of, and empathy for, the life experiences of
individuals and communities far removed from their day-to-day reality by
presenting multiple perspectives in engaging and emotive ways.

To help the world's 7 billion people understand my human rights message, I want
to make a film that vividly portrays the life experiences of survivors of extreme
human rights abuses, including the exceptional human capacity for resilience.

This will also be a great medium because it does not provide a specific theoretical
template for human rights education and ultimate answers to questions that may
arise while watching the film. Since there is plurality of perspectives in discussion,
it empowers individuals to construct their own opinions from the wisdom they
gained in the film.

Films encourage us to think critically and reflect, and they may help us integrate
human rights issues into our lives as individuals and citizens. While encouraging
debate and action in response to existing human rights violations, we also explore
complex concepts such as empathy, activism and politics.

Film is an effective medium of modern communication for entertaining as well as

conveying a message that can affect the audience's outlook, beliefs, and
understanding.   Although some may argue that movies are nothing compared to
novels, I believe that "a picture says a thousand words", and films can show one
scene that is equivalent to pages of description in writing.