Bauerova 6
Zagreb
Croatia
- Democracy and community development
- Gender
- Human rights
- International/Cultural relations
- Media
Open Media Group is a non-for-profit non-government organization. The Management bodies of Open Media Group are the Assembly and the Management Board. The Assembly is the highest managing body of the Association, and is made of all the regular members of the Association. The Management Board is the executive body. The Chairman of the Management Board represents the Association and is liable for legality of its activities. O.M.G. has 23 members, 3 of which make the Management Board. O.M.G. has 3 employees. O.M.G. has created, developed and realized 6 documentary films in co-operation with various partners. We have also created and implemented numerous media campaigns aimed at raising awareness on different topics of civil society, mainly prevention of and combating violence against women and trafficking of human beings. Our media campaigns are financed by European Commission, UNHCR, UNDP, Embassies of Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Government of Croatia Offices for Human Rights and Gender Equality, Ministry of Family, Veterans’ Affairs and Intergenerational solidarity, National Foundation for Civil Society Development, Ministry of Environmental Protection, Ministry of Science, Education and Sports. In the year 2009 OMG is receiving institutional support from National Foundation for Civil Society Development.
VISION: Creation of society of equal opportunities for all citizens, in which sensitized citizens make informed decisions and are conscious about their responsibility for society in whole. O.M.G. has been founded with the aims of promotion of civil society and protection of human rights, especially rights of the young by compiling modern technologies with arts, especially film art; raising awareness of the young and promoting the values of the society of equal opportunities for all citizens, and especially promoting gender equality. O.M.G. gathers young people that decided to employ their knowledge and experience in promotion of human rights and value of democracy. Our experience includes media production, organization, media campaign design, and knowledge on media effects and impact, which is all very important for quality promotion. We have a big network of contacts in media production and broadcasting, for every project we engage experts based on the project needs. In this way we are ensuring that the topic is covered thoroughly and with quality.
One of the documentaries we produced is “Facing the Day” directed by Ivona Juka, thatspeaks about prisoners in Penitentiary Lepoglava, one of the strictest penitentiaries in Croatia, and re-examines the manners of resocialisation in Croatian prisons. Film was screened at numerous international festivals and received many awards including: Best Documentary Film at goEast Film Festival (Wiesbaden, Germany) ; 3 awards at Croatian Film Days – Grand Prix for the best Croatian film, “Oktavijan” award for the Best Documentary Film awarded by the Croatian Film Critic Society and Best Editing award; in Sarajevo Film Festival it was awarded Heart of Sarajevo for the Best Documentary. Film participated in International Documentary Festival DokMa in Maribor where it won Best European Documentary Award. Film was also screened at prestigious film festivals in Montreal, Ljubljana, Sofia, Motovun, Calcutta, Sao Paolo and Author Film Festival in Belgrade. Film has cinema distribution in Croatian Macedonia, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina and has recommendations by Education and Teacher Training Agency, Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, Government Office for Human Rights and prof. Dr. Ksenija Turković, the Chair of Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb, as well as the support of Government Office for Combating Narcotic Drug Abuse. The film was screened to university students and to pupils of high schools and of 7th and 8th grade of elementary school: 74 screenings were held in 63 towns, and film was seen by 9.573 students and pupils of elementary and high schools. In years 2007 and 2008 we implemented Awareness Raising Campaign for Prevention of Gender Based Violence co-financed by European Commission, Ministry of Education Science and Sports, CARE International, Royal Netherlands Embassy, Royal Norwegian Embassy, Embassy of Finland, Ministry of Family, Veterans’ Affairs and Intergenerational Solidarity. Open Media Group created, developed and implemented the media campaign as part of the project. The slogan of the campaign is “Silence is not Gold” and the TV clips were broadcasted on Croatian Television and RTL Croatia, which provided free media time, with value of broadcasting time over 17.000.000,00 HRK (approx. 2,3 mil. EUR).