For the 14^th year in a row, the Mobile Film Festival rounded up videos from around the world to promote emerging talent, and give a creative opportunity to all geographic cultures and backgrounds.

This year, the United Nations joined in, along with YouTube, the European Union and other partners, adding the theme #StandUp4HumanRights, in a contest that gives filmmakers the opportunity to share issues of interest regarding human rights, using one mobile phone, and keeping the video to one minute.

Founder of the festival, Bruno Smadja, said asking contestants to use smartphones removes economic constraints and allows for more inclusivity.

He told Cristina Silveiro of UN News why making the competition accessible had been so important, ahead of the 70^th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, marked December 10^th.

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