Our Pride Arts & Advocacy

31/08/2026

CALL FOR CREATORS

Your story belongs on screen.

OUR PRIDE Shorts Fest is looking for filmmakers and creators from around the world.

🎥 Short films
🎵 Music videos
🎞️ Documentaries
🌈 LGBTQ+ stories
🎨 Animation & experimental work

Emerging filmmaker? Experienced creator? First-time filmmaker?

We want to see what you’re creating.

🌍 From Iran to South Africa. From Canada to the United States. From everywhere in between.

Submission is FREE.

Submit through FilmFreeway: ⁠ourpride.org/shorts

🌈 OUR PRIDE Shorts Fest
Stories. Voices. Visibility. Pride.


https://ourpride.substack.com/p/call-for-creators?r=2sr63h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Your story belongs on screen.

31/08/2026

🎬 FILM SPOTLIGHT: IN SELF EMBRACE

We’re honored to welcome In Self Embrace, directed by Iranian filmmaker Zahra Mohsenzadeh, to the OUR PRIDE Shorts Fest.

Mahtab is a deaf transgender woman arriving for long-awaited gender-affirming surgery. But as the Taliban advances across Afghanistan, her partner Matin is forced into an impossible choice between the person he loves and his family.

A deeply intimate story about love, identity, family, belonging—and learning to hold ourselves.

🇮🇷 From Iran to the world.

🌈 OUR PRIDE Shorts Fest
Stories. Voices. Visibility. Pride.

Read the full film spotlight in Voices of Solidarity.

From Iran: A story of love, identity, family, and finding the strength to hold ourselves

31/08/2026

Something new is taking shape at OUR PRIDE.

**KOHR — Know Our [human] Rights.**

A new project exploring the Universal Declaration of Human Rights through a simple question:

**Do we really know our rights?**

We’re beginning to build a place where people can learn about their rights, understand them, and discover how they connect to the lives we live every day.

More soon.

**Know Our [human] Rights.**

Read the first glimpse on Substack:
https://substack.com//note/c-325984468

Something new is taking shape at OUR PRIDE. KOHR — Know Our [human] Rights. A new project exploring the Universal Declaration of Human Rights through a simple question: Do we really know our rights? We’re beginning to build a place where people can learn about their rights, understand them, and ...

22/08/2026

🎬🌈 STORIES ARE CROSSING BORDERS

In November, OUR PRIDE Shorts & Arts Fest brings filmmakers and creators together from across the world.

From Uganda to India to Indonesia, these are stories that challenge silence, celebrate identity, and remind us that human rights are lived through real human lives.

Four stories. Four journeys. One global festival.

✨ Stories of the Nile — Uganda
✨ Beethar — India
✨ The Emerald Archipelago — Indonesia
✨ Dare to Remember

And we’re still looking for more creators.

🎥 Short films
🎵 Music videos
📱 Social media video
📰 Journalism & news stories
🎨 Experimental / New Media
🌍 Human-rights storytelling

Submissions are now open.

👉 ourpride.org/shorts

22/08/2026

Amsterdam wasn’t the end. The conversations continue.

During WorldPride Amsterdam 2026, Voices of Solidarity brought together artists, filmmakers, historians, researchers, and community voices from around the world.

It was an evening of film, poetry, storytelling, music, history, and conversation—and a reminder that solidarity can begin simply by listening to one another.

Now the stories continue through the OUR PRIDE Global Hub and Voices of Solidarity.

Read the story:
https://ourpride.substack.com/p/amsterdam-wasnt-the-end-the-conversations-continue

21/04/2026

Partly thanks to a collaboration with the Empowerment Fund of the Pride Amsterdam foundation, we can produce our 2nd annual WorldPride Voices of Solidarity event. The fund offers financial support to projects that contribute to the emancipation and inclusivity of the community.

The Empowerment Fund was set up to ensure that everyone within the LGBTQIA+ community has a voice and can contribute to Pride Amsterdam. It specifically focuses on initiatives that otherwise would not be able to take place. This further emphasizes and stimulates diversity within Pride.

Pride Amsterdam .amsterdam

23/03/2026

A Step Toward Liberation — IDAHOBIT 2026 in Los Angeles

On May 17, we gather at Founders MCC to unveil the Steps to Liberation — a permanent rainbow arts installation and a public act of courage by the co-creator of the original rainbow flag, Lynn Segerblom "Mother of the Rainbow Flag."

From the early Pride marches of the 1960s to today, the steps continue.

This is not just an unveiling.
It’s a reminder that visibility still matters.
That dignity is not negotiable.
That freedom is something we practice — together.

📍 Founders MCC, Los Angeles
🗓 May 17, 2026
🕛 12 PM

Join us in person or sign up for the virtual gathering (link in bio).

If freedom requires courage,
let the steps begin here.

25/07/2025

Congratulations to our 2025 honorees: 15th Anniversary Celebration Highlights 18 Short Films, 3 Music Projects, 3 Books, 2 Human Rights Projects, 4 Human Rights Advocates and 1 Pride Community Leader. https://open.substack.com/pub/ourpride/p/rainbow-advocacy-2025-awards-honor

31 awards to honorees in the USA, Canada, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Ghana, Tanzania, Namibia, Nigeria, Uganda, Taiwan, Indonesia, India, Australia, Iran and Turkey, highlighting many projects featured in the organization’s 8th annual OUR PRIDE Shorts & Arts Festival, which included 170+ films from 25+ countries during the 40 day event concluding on the final day of Pride Month. A WorldPride Partner Event.

🌈 Charter for Compassion

13/06/2025

An official WorldPride 2025 partner event: Uganda's first openly transgender pastor and HIV advocate on storytelling and reclaiming spirituality as a tool of resistance and healing. https://ourpride.Substack.com

12/06/2025

Ugandan activist on Human Rights in 2025

Human rights are connected, and an injustice anywhere affects us all.