The Public Health Film Festival (PHFF)[1][2] is a
film festival organised by the
Public Health Film Society (PHFS). The PHFF debuted in 2014, and takes place every two years. It specialises in screening films about
health and is listed with the Internet Movie Database (
IMDb).[3]
The first three editions of the PHFF have been hosted by The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities (TORCH)[4] at the
Radcliffe Humanities Department in
Oxford, England.
The theme for the 1st edition of the PHFF was "Public Health Past, Present and Future"; the 2nd, in 2016, was "Health For All"; the 3rd, in 2018, was "Growing Up Well"; and the 4th, in 2020, was "Health and wellbeing in a pandemic: stories told through film".
The 3rd edition of the PHFF saw the introduction of an Audience Award, which was won by the film Lucy: Breaking the Silence from
Fact Not Fiction Films.[10]
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^Hoang, U.; Sharma, K.; Russell, P.; Bergonzi-King, L.; Kapoor, N.; Rae, M.; Seminog, O. (4 February 2021). "Reflections on running an International Public Health Film Competition during the COVID-19 pandemic and implications for future film festivals". Journal of Communication in Healthcare. 14: 8–11.
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