CHARITY FILM AWARDS - THE VIRTUAL EVENT

Charity Film Awards 2020 will be a virtual event. The ceremony will be live-streamed to the Charity Film Awards website via Fundraising Everywhere, and will be broadcast to Facebook and YouTube at 7pm on 21 April.

From 6:30pm we encourage everyone to view their favourite film as a preview to the main event and the announcement of the winners. We want to share all the anticipation and celebration with as many people as possible. We will create opportunities for everyone to interact and share on social media, with a few special moments to surprise you.

CHARITY FILM AWARDS SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED

400 charities have entered the awards, More than 65,000 members of the public voted and 125 charities have made the shortlist to be presented to the judges. Read all about it.

NEW CORPORATE CAUSE AWARDS

A brand new category in Charity Film Awards especially for corporates and brands who make cause and issues based films has launched. Read more about it.

Charity Film Awards in the News

Charity Film Awards Founder talks to Steven Sukur on BBC World News

The BFI Review of the Charity Film Awards

Ken Loach has remarked throughout his career that films do not change society, but the films nominated for the Charity Film Awards are having a go at achieving just this, and in many cases successfully. The moving image, since its early days, has been used by charities and other groups as a tool to influence people’s behaviour in a multitude of ways. One of my favourites is... Read More

Interview by London Live with the Friends of Richmond Park

Footage and interviews at the event

The Charity Film Awards were created to demonstrate that in a modern world film-making is the most powerful piece of equipment in the charity communication tool box, to show that the common perception of charities’ video content is incorrect and to praise charitable video that can inspire, incite to action, excite and change behaviour.

The Charity Film Awards is now an established annual event that attracts hundreds of entries from charities, hundreds of thousands of public views and votes, thousands of donations being made to charities that entered, huge PR coverage internationally and millions reactions through social media.

By creating categories based on charity turnover, we were able to judge those with similar budgets on a level playing field. Contact the team to find out more.

Other news reports - BFI Review - The Guardian - Film News -