Oxfam Spain have launched the Actua Festival for 2010 and the theme this year is poverty. They are calling for entries films of no more than 20 minutes and can be either fiction or documentary. Oxfam say (translated from Spanish):

If after having broken your back working a whole day long you only receive 1 dollar a day, what would you do with it? How would you get by if you hardly had enough to eat? And what if you had a family to feed? How would you pay for health care?

Nearly one billion people in the world live on less than 1 dollar a day. Women account for 70 per cent of this figure. This situation should have sounded the alarm many years ago. For this reason the theme of this year’s ACTUA Festival edition is poverty. Because nobody can live on 1 dollar a day and because changing this reality is a matter of political will. We want to report these situations and we want the short film’s proposals and points of view to be inspired by these claims.

They are offering up professional and semi-professional video cameras as prizes. The deadline for films to reach Oxfam is 15 April 2010. For more information see their website.