Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST)

Request for Proposal (RFP)

Subject: Proposals for organising a Short Film Competition from qualified individuals/firms/organizations with a record of organising film competitions.

BLAST is a legal aid organization with over 25 years of experience of providing comprehensive legal services across the country to women, men and children living in poverty and facing discrimination, through a network of public interest and legal aid lawyers. Currently BLAST is implementing a project titled: “PROMOTING RIGHTS THROUGH INCLUSION AND EMPOWERMENT’ (PRiTIE)” with the support of RFSU, a Swedish organisation, to create positive awareness about SRHR and live a healthy violence free respected life. Where everyone will conscious about their rights and can apply those rights in their own life for better future. This project involves capacity building and advocacy activities focused on creating greater understanding of sexual and reproductive health and rights, particularly among legal and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) practitioners, journalist, and students. .

In order to create wider engagement with young people, BLAST aims to organize a short film competition for young people (18-25 years), to make and submit short films on the theme of“Let’s Live with Dignity: Break the Stigma”with a focus on SRHR, particularly rights, and mental health effects relating to SRHR and gender issues. This film competition will generate awareness on individual rights, notions of consent, choice, equality, and health focusing on sexual and reproductive health and rights, with a view to contributing to public debate and to law and policy reforms.  

TERMS OF REFERENCE

Overall management and coordination of the Short Film Competition along with award giving ceremony, including:

  • Developing a promotional plan (a print, digital and social media campaign, including fliers and posters, and FAQs about the application process).
  • Selecting and engaging a contact /point for participants to obtain information about the competition and direct quires.
  • Establishing a Jury Board
  • Managing online submissions .
  • Holding screenings for the Jury
  • Ensuring all technical issues including film print quality for screening films in the awards ceremony.
  • Organising the awards ceremony, including the design and roll out of the commuications plan for the same .
  • Providing a narrative and financial report on the competition.

Tentative Timeline should be:

  • Competition Announcement –     3rd week of August, 2019
  • Film Submission Period -           September, 2019
  • Final Selection and Editing –      1st week of October, 2019
  • Award Giving Ceremony -           3rd week of October, 2019
  • Media coverage-                         4th Week of October, 2019

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

  • Interested  organizations are requested to submit a a technical and a financial proposal by email only with the subject line ‘Proposal for organizing a Short Film Competition’ to   purchase@blast.org.bd  
  • Interested applicants must include as annexes to their proposal copies of 1) their TIN certificate, 2) VAT Registration Certificate, 3) Trade License, 4) List of clientsand 5) work related documents.  
  • Deadline to submit the proposal: 30th July 2019 by 5 PM

NB: BLAST reserves the right to accept or deny any proposal.