IOM Short Film Contest on Combating Trafficking in Persons in Nigeria 2025 ($5,000 in prizes) – YOA

Deadline: July 11, 2025

Applications are open for the IOM Short Film Contest on Combating Trafficking in Persons in Nigeria 2025. Each 12 months, the world commemorates the worldwide combat towards trafficking in individuals on 30 July throughout World Day towards Trafficking in Persons. The commemoration gives the OPPORTUNITY for all fringes of society – from artists to choice-makers – to return collectively to mirror round progresses and challenges made in addressing trafficking in individuals.

This 12 months, this world marketing campaign might be marked across the theme Human trafficking is Organized Crime – End the Exploitation underscoring the important position of legislation enforcement and the felony justice system in dismantling organized trafficking networks whereas guaranteeing a sufferer-centred strategy.

Contest Details

According to UNODC, human trafficking continues to be a world risk pushed by organized crime. More and extra victims are being trafficked yearly, throughout better distances, with better violence, for longer intervals of time and for better revenue. From 2020 to 2023, there have been greater than 200,000 detected victims globally. IOM Nigeria knowledge reveals that from April 2017 thus far, over 5,981 victims have been assisted to return to Nigeria as part of the Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration program.

Despite the efforts made by the Federal Government of Nigeria by means of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), organized felony community proceed to use most migrants with false guarantees of greener pastures overseas. They use on-line platforms, social media, and the darkish net to recruit and exploit victims, using know-how to evade detection, attain wider audiences, and disseminate exploitative content material.

As part of its nationwide marketing campaign towards trafficking in individuals, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is delighted to announce the Third Edition of the Short Film Contest on Combating Trafficking in Persons in Nigeria. Launched in 2023, the competition is considered one of IOM’s flagship initiatives in Nigeria aimed toward galvanizing youth and inventive actors in the worldwide combat towards inequality, exploitation, and abuse.

This contest presents platforms for younger Nigerian filmmakers and movie fans to actively have interaction with this urgent challenge and contribute to optimistic change inside their communities and past. It goals to amplify voices and narratives that contribute to the combat towards trafficking in individuals in Nigeria, and to ignite a dialogue amongst key actors on how we are able to work higher collectively to handle trafficking in individuals earlier than, throughout and after the actual fact.

Awards

The contest plans to award prizes as follows:

• First prize: $2,500
• Second prize: $1,500
• Third prize: $1,000

Eligibility

• Open to all younger Nigerians beneath 35 years outdated with a eager curiosity in the cross-reducing problems with counter trafficking, human rights of migrants, media, and social justice amongst others.
• While the folks showing in the video/movie may be of any age, it’s important that the movie displays the ideas and opinions of the younger filmmaker(s) about completely different types of trafficking in individuals and counter trafficking. The individual submitting the video (“the participant”) should be actively concerned in its making, e.g., both as a director, author, digital camera operator, editor, actor, coordinator, and so forth.
• Multiple youths can work collectively on one video and submit the ultimate product as a single entry for his or her group work.

Film entries should be:

• Under twenty (26) minutes in size, together with title(s) and opening/closing credit. If an entry is barely under or above the aforementioned time restrict, it will likely be reviewed and evaluated on a case-to-case foundation
• Submitted with English subtitles.
• Produced after 1 January 2023.

Application

In addition, movie entries may be of any style (animation, documentary, music video, comedy, and so forth.) so long as they’ve the potential to make the viewers suppose in constructive methods in regards to the theme of combating human trafficking in Nigeria. If chosen, entrants should be ready to submit a digital copy of their video in both of the next codecs: MOV (most well-liked), or MP4. HD is most well-liked (1920×1080) however not required.

To submit a video for consideration, you have to first full the online registration form. Provide all the required data. Incomplete submissions will result in disqualification. The kind will ask you to submit your movie by means of a video-streaming web site (YouTube). The participant might be requested to incorporate the URL of the video in the web kind. The entrant should be certain that the video hyperlink is accessible and never personal.

For extra data, go to IOM Short Film Contest.