WCMIF Storytelling Foundations

Documentary Screening and Competition

The World Changers Media International Foundation has a unique periodic documentary screening and competition that helps discover great potentials in film. This competition is in line with the objectives of the foundation which allows for a global fair and even competitive platform for all documentarians to showcase their talent, raise awareness on divergent topics, become worthy global ambassadors of the organization and gain global prominence.

Its specific objective is to promote and support the development of the cinematic art globally with great documentarians coming up with various contents that help great courses. The goal of our documentary screening and competition is to act as a point of convergence Documentarians and International Cinema industries to understand major turning points in various countries’ history and development. The spirit of this screening and documentary competition is the one of discovery which strives to turn a catalyst for the development of the Cinematic art in documentary and storytelling globally, particularly through raising authentic voices of indigenous authentic voices across the globe.

Storytelling Workshop

Our workshop is a well-structured, participatory and exhaustive educative program that teaches aspiring and emerging documentarians, filmmakers, storytellers and journalists’ critical aspects of film making and documentary production. WCMIF equips participants with the requisite technical and professional skills required for film production. We seek to prepare and train film makers in all aspects of documentary and storytelling.

Culture and Heritage Preservation

In our Cultural Heritage Programs, we project heritage studies, cultural and environmental resources management as engines of development and instruments for opening up new fields of activities to strengthen cultural resilience and foster economic growth of communities in underrepresented areas. We do these through advocacy for Heritage Studies in Schools to stimulate the study of traditional arts, rejuvenation of native languages as we train Volunteers (teachers and creative artists) to organize quiz and arts competitions for Primary and Post-primary schools in hard-to-reach communities in order to drive home the heritage studies program in communities. We promote cultural advocacy, conservation and environmental resources management programs to sustain authentic cultural traditions in order to tap new opportunities for the protection of the biodiversity, promote traditional festivals, skills and technologies and engender virile intercultural group relations, peace building and integration in a multi-cultural society.

Voice of the Dreamers

Voice of the Dreamers is a flagship program of the World Changers Media International Foundation (WCMIF) that highlights each continent’s most amazing talents who create a subculture in different spheres of life such as Journalism, arts, music, fashion etc. Voice of the Dreamers also relates to the subject of documentaries with a focus on youth who have had to face tragic circumstances, sometimes, left only with a dream. These talented and inspiring young artists who, more or less, have no avenue to project their unique abilities to the world are afforded that opportunity through the “Voice of the Dreamer”. The program lends a voice to the underrepresented with potentiality, big dreams and a story to tell. The unique stories on the Voice of the Dreamer will highlight the personal challenges, daily survival efforts of these youth who despite the many hurdles in society have shown resolve to excel and resilience in front and behind the camera.

• Highlight various continents abundant talent and rich culture
• Dreamers tell their stories
• Platform for Start up’s to be seen and heard
• To ensure the sustainability of great dreams.
• To promote education by limiting restrictions to the access of education in      red tape zones.
• Supports the dissemination of world achievements in the fields of education and culture
• Acts in favor of international understanding, unity and assertion of the values of human civilization by developing and enhancing the exchange in culture, arts, science, education and professional training
• Assists in the development of gifted children and capable young people by providing equal opportunities based exclusively on their professional      skills and sponsoring their education, professional training and creative      development
• Enhances the preservation, maintenance and popularization of cultural and historic heritage.
• To create a mentorship platform for intending documentarians in rural      settlements.
• To ensure effective participation of marginalized persons in the media world.

The Festival

The WCMIF international festival is an annual event with a unique touch of rich culture shown in dance, play, fashion, movies, literature etc projecting core indigenous values to the world. The festival will showcase documentarians from across the globe whose story has influenced the global communities. WCMIF will have a huge representation of the film industry with business hubs. The scope will cover over 30 countries participating annually from across Africa, Europe, Asia, Caribbean, Australia, North and South America.

The Process

The festival’s schedule is drawn to run for about 3 quarters annually with lots of engaging programs. We have a three (3) part process which includes; Pre-Festival, Festival, and Post Festival Events. This schedule is designed to meet essential goals of the festival. WCMIF aims to host a series of events prior to the commencement of the festival. Here is a list of those events.

Storytelling Workshop

Our workshop is a well-structured, participatory and exhaustive educative program that teaches aspiring and emerging documentarians, filmmakers and journalists’ critical aspects of film making and documentary production. This initiative is geared towards the growth of documentary films and digital media workforce development of young people in the film industry across the world. The training is scheduled for 3 weeks during which trainees are exposed to major aspects of filmmaking. This training is designed to develop technical competences in film making for all registered trainees.

Documentary Screening

Call for entry is announced by WCMIF

Documentaries are taken through a thorough step screening process; to ensure all entries meet the required standards of WCMIF.

Documentaries are screened by WCMIF Screening Faculty and Jurors drawn from all over the globe

International Press Conference

This is held after the documentary screening is done. Shortlisted names of documentarians, contents and categories will be publicly released through a conference and published on the official festival website.

WCMIF International Documentary Summit

This summit is held a day before the Nomination party. Stakeholders, Filmmakers, journalists and documentarians will have an annual convergence to discuss major themes, issues and solution concerning the growth and development of documentaries of stories and events. This event will feature, panelists, networking, professionals, arts, displays and entertainment.

Nomination Party

A grand exotic and glamorous dinner event will be held in honor of the nominees shortlisted for the categories in contention and the theme of that year’s festival released officially to the public. This party is scheduled to hold in cities within the United States or other countries.

Festival Dinner

The festival dinner heralds the commencement of the festival activities outlined annually. During the dinner event, there will be a rich display of cultures and the symbol of the festival will be unveiled ceremoniously.

Documentary Premiere Festival

The first day of WCMIF will have a special activity called Documentary Premiere Festival. This Premiere show will showcase music, dance, and lots of costume parade by invited troupes showcasing diverse cultures and heritage. The major highlight will see the Festival Symbol paraded with pride as the symbol of the festival.

Festival Workshop

The WCMIF will help registered and interested participants who require crash training during the duration of the festival. This is a 5-day compact and technical training that will be of immense value to participants and will further project the objectives of the festival.

Screening of Nominated Documentaries

WCMIF screening council and juror will screen shortlisted documentaries in the listed categories to know the overall best before the Award event.

Exhibitions

One of the features of the WCMIF is the exhibition. Stakeholders, corporate bodies and entrepreneurs from across the globe duly registered, will have an exhibition boot in their name to display and sell products and services.

The exhibition will be opened to International brands to display their products and services during the entire duration of the festival, creating a distinctive networking that will further their business operations.

The exhibition will last for the entire 7 days of the festival.

SUPPORT & EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS

• Leadership Training/Mentorship
• Vocational skills Training/Empowerment.
• Women and Youth communal farming and agriculture-allied activities.
• Workshops and Seminars on gender and topical issues.
• Provide Micro-credit awareness and access for the target population
• Advocacy, campaigns and enlightenment on violence against the girl child
• Support for Women and Youths in crisis times.
• Championing pro environmental campaign
• Gender mainstreaming into programs.
• Consultancy.
• Research works

WCMIF Documentary Club is an international non-profit organization club founded to help people across the globe develop a brighter bond as documentarians, film makers, journalists, media professionals and intending media professionals to understand best the social, political and economic factors affecting lives, and to use documentary as a tool to strengthen global awareness, research, economic and social development across boards. The club has been set as the right platform for documentarians, filmmakers, media professionals, storytellers and students to live their dreams and reach their own potential power to positively influence their lives and that of the communities they live in. We’re a team of passionate optimists driven to help others realize their full potential by building lifelong learning skills, economic viable strategies and environment through the use of documentaries.

We are a training and implementation organization. We believe in exploring media technology possibilities in aiding geometrical growth in all economic sectors. We provide media training at the intersection of education, journalism, filmmaking and entrepreneurship; this ensures that our members will be well equipped to act as objective documentarians and leaders who will affect communities as social changers and drivers.

WCMIF pays great attention to the media and social creative industry and helps guide minds of locals to further develop their talents by equipping them with the right techniques that will also be useful to further their potentials in earning a living and empowering their immediate society.

We teach young people how to learn, be great leaders, implement strategies, fund ideas, invention, and turn-around ailing businesses. These lifelong learning skills allow WCMIF club program participants to become economically and environmentally adaptable and resilient. They graduate as flexible, confident individuals and professionals ready to take on the future.

Our club falls under the Operational and Advocacy structure. The club is a catalyst; it implements strategic projects and deliberately partners to influence a new development culture. Like so many valuable Clubs of global repute, we have the ability to ‘inspire, facilitate, or contribute to improved thinking and action to promote change’. This Club will often act as partner alongside other organizations in order to tackle problems and address human needs more effectively.

WCMIF Media Club is founded as an offshoot of the prestigious WCMIF Documentary Festival to help translate and implement core values and objectives directly to Documentarians, Journalists, and film makers. A partner of the International Documentary Association, the club has set its priorities of bringing together great minds that will work together to foster a new path for progress in countries and around the world using documentary. We are building a global network that opens doors to a large number of professionals who will work assiduously on contents that will impact societies and create wealth across borders.

Our Club is open to membership worldwide. Our role is to coordinate members to ensure that they abide by the standings of goals that will influence objectivity in storytelling, journalism and documentary as it affects major global issues. We are interested in our scope that focuses on connecting countries and continents with a positive connection to the world.

To build efficiency and better drive through a more robust network of countries and global Alliance, its founders has commissioned the Club to be situated in cities and tertiary institutions around the globe. 

Interests

WCMIF Documentary Club’s road map critically affects these areas because its philosophy is to raise great documentarians, filmmakers, journalists and leaders that must stimulate communities to socio, economic and political excellence.

We pay attention to issues affecting great concepts below listed and allow members to debate these issues while gathering facts as detectives to objectively highlight issues and foster way forward through documentary.

• Agriculture
• Education
• Technology
• Entrepreneurship
• Mining
• Leadership
• Socio-Political Economics Justice
• Environment
• Human Rights
• Health Equity
• Wild Life Preservation
• Sports 
• Archaeology and History

Our Work Objectives

• Our work addresses gaps in existing facilities that affects all sectors in the community and economic structures of Nations. We run programs that address skill gaps in established education systems, encouraging young people to see filmmaking, documentary and journalism as a viable career. Our training emphasizes root subjects to help build the foundation for sustainable career choices. We also provide financial inclusion and business training to empower women and youth with the skills to manage their own lives, households and businesses through media.
• Our flagship program is the Media Workshop, a dynamic and exhaustive training that functions as an academy to build great documentarians, filmmakers, journalists, and creative minds. Our training course is designed strategically to ensure absolute results in the best possible time. As opportunities arise, we introduce and maintain a variety of other programming.
• Our Short Docu-Challenge helps us to identify the next big documentarian that will solve issues and advance communal living.
• We pursue anything that empowers youth and women through advanced media technology, from long-term efforts like training marginalized and abused women, to yearly, week-long events like media creative arts academy and graphics academy for girls.
• We help improve fortunes from filmmaking by driving more investment in the sector.
• To create a healthy knowledge based economy, our club is resolved in building a research center that will guarantee giant stride breakthrough in vast areas.

Storytelling Club Orientation (raising an army of wealth stimulants through documentary)

WCMIF International Documentary Club can be understood by its orientation and level of how the organization operates.

• The club’s participatory orientation philosophy is characterized by the self-help projects where locals are involved particularly in the implementation of a documentary project by contributing tools, literature, materials, labor etc. to help in the production. In the classical community development project (where we train locals about the usefulness of documentary and to be storytellers), participation begins with the need definition and continues into the planning and implementation stages.
• Empowering orientation aims to help poor people develop a clearer understanding of the social, political and economic factors affecting their lives, and to strengthen their awareness of their own potential power to control their lives. There is maximum involvement of the beneficiaries with Club acting as facilitators to drive this course. Our structure is designed to also promote young, talented, underprivileged journalists and documentary producers to global prominence. The ultimate objective of the Club lies in training filmmakers, journalists and documentarians to the peak of their expertise.

The organization’s level of operation has an international reach. We aim to solve immediate issues across global communities, including the U.S., by empowering the people positively in order to effect desired social, economic cum political growth. This alliance is categorized as a ‘Non-governmental development organization/Club’.

Our Goal

• To inspire the creation and expansion of 340, 000 businesses across global communities through our drive.
• To train two million youth and women in a ten years plan to act as social development influencers through documentary.
• To inspire economic sustainability and growth in over a hundred thousand communities.

Fellows

Fellow of WCMIF Circle is an award and fellowship granted by the Supreme Council of the WCMIF Storytelling Club to individuals of immense integrity who have distinguished themselves (globally by promoting everything that concerns the development of documentary and documentarians, entrepreneurship and socio political leadership) and who the society judge to have made a ” Substantial contribution in the development and promotion of cultural economy and development through the media.

Fellowship given by the Documentary Club is the apex combined Fellowship and Award on documentary and journalism given to distinguished persons for their contributions to propagating core values in Technology, Documentary, Media/Journalism, Storytelling and Leadership; this is a significant honor which is awarded to many Global leaders, documentarians, journalists and storytellers across the globe. 

Being a Fellow of Storytelling Circle can be described as “the equivalent of a lifetime achievement in Documentary Media Excellence with several institutions, countries and communities celebrating their announcement each year.

• Main Fellowships
• Fellow of Global Tech and Global Leaders (FADC)
• Honorary Fellow of WCMIF Storytelling Documentary Circle 
• Election of New Fellows
  • 1 Nomination
  • 2 Selection
  • 3 Admission

Main Fellowships

The WCMIF Supreme Council which oversees the Storytelling Club will receive a total of 100 new Fellows (FADC) and honorary (HonFADC) who are elected annually from a pool of around 1000 proposed candidates each year. New Fellows can only be nominated by existing Fellows or Supreme Council for one of the fellowships described below (except announced otherwise)

Every year, up to 80 new Fellows will be elected from Africa, Europe, Asia, North America, the Americas and Caribbean Islands. Each candidate is considered on their merits and can be proposed from any sector and community. Fellows are elected for life on the basis of excellence in their involvement in Documentary, Media, Art, Culture, Entrepreneurship and Leadership, and are entitled to use the Post-Nominal letters FADC. Fellows who have been inducted are constituted into the fold of Club.

Honorary Fellow of Documentary Circle (HonFADC)

Honorary Fellowship is an honorary upcoming Academic title awarded to candidates who have given distinguished service to the cause of documentary, journalism and Media but do not have the kind of achievements required for Distinguished Fellows. Honorary Fellows are entitled to use the post nominal letters HonFADC.

Election of new fellows

The election of new fellows is announced annually after their nomination and a period of peer-reviewed selection.

About The Awards

The climax of WCMIF calendar is the WCMIF Awards. Intends to be the biggest documentary award and one of the brightest awards in the film industry.

The winners of each category are announced and celebrated on the night of the event during a live broadcast. The ceremony also showcases various countries' best musical, dance, and drama performances.

The WCMIF Awards has three phases that ensure the best nominees are selected for each category.

WCMIF Screening Faculty and JurorsThe panel is carefully selected to ensure the Awards judging process is fair and objective. The judges are bound by strict confidentiality agreement and are required to declare any conflict of interest in entries over which they deliberate, in which case that entry will be reallocated. Integrity in this process lies at the heart of what we do.The screening faculty is made up of Media professionals, The Academia, Seasoned film makers, Documentarians from across the globe. This is an unbiased team and is saddled with the mantle of ensuring the best documentaries are shortlisted into the right categories and the final winners are the best from the final cut. 

AWARD Categories

This is a comprehensive list of categories for the WCMIF Awards;

Best Documentary
Brightest Emerging Documentarian (Inclusive)
Best Documentary Story & Voice over Narration
Documentary with Best Screen Play
Best Journalistic Story

Best Original Sound Track and Theme Song
Best Science and Health Based Documentary
Best Wildlife Documentary
Best Sports Documentary
Best Business/Economic Documentary
Best Societal Development/Social Justice Documentary
Best Diaspora Documentary
Best in Writing

Best Investigative

Best Cinematography
Audience Choice Awards

The ACE Award

All participants will be awarded with a certificate of participation and will be given an opportunity to become official partners working with us to reach the foundation's goals. Participants will also be invited to be Members of the Club and Ambassadors of WCMIF in their respective countries and communities.