{"id":305728,"date":"2021-01-22T18:05:12","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T16:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=305728"},"modified":"2021-01-22T18:09:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T16:09:30","slug":"orthodox-organization-invites-children-to-strengthen-faith-through-a-short-film-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/orthodox-organization-invites-children-to-strengthen-faith-through-a-short-film-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox organization invites children to strengthen faith through a short film competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Christian Orthodox organization from Sidney, St Ypomoni Family and Friends Ministry, launched a short film <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/stypomonifamilyandfriendsministry\/posts\/196941065489151\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">competition<\/a> for children. The initiative aims to strengthen their faith and make them reflect on the main message of the Gospel: love of God and of one&#8217;s neighbour.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fruits of the Spirit&#8221; is the theme of this inaugural edition. The contest is addressed to children aged 8-18 from the Greek Orthodox Archdioceses of Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Until February 10th, participants are invited to send three-minute films inspired by Holy Apostle Paul&#8217;s words written in the Epistle to Galatians:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The children can participate individually or in teams of mostly four members.<\/p>\n<p>The jury will be made up of industry professionals and\u00a0Church leaders. The prizes are vouchers in value of\u00a0300, 200, 100 and respectively 50 dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on COVID restrictions, winning films will be screened at either a real world or virtual event.\u00a0Details will be provided closer to the end date of the festival.<\/p>\n<p>More information can be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/stypomonifamilyandfriendsministry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> or by writing an email at stypomoni@gmail.com.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative is made in partnership with Trisagion Films, the organizer of the <a href=\"http:\/\/basilica.ro\/tag\/byzanfest\">Byzanfest<\/a> international Orthodox film festival.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_305726\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-305726\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-305726\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-01-21-at-17.33.32-890x890.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-305726\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Facebook \/ St Ypomoni Family and Friends Ministry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Photo courtesy of Freepik.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Christian Orthodox organization from Sidney, St Ypomoni Family and Friends Ministry, launched a short film competition for children. The initiative aims to strengthen their faith and make them reflect on the main message of the Gospel: love of God and of one&#8217;s neighbour. &#8220;Fruits of the Spirit&#8221; is the theme of this inaugural edition.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":305725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[15620],"class_list":["post-305728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultural-en","tag-stiri-ortodoxe-en"],"better_featured_image":{"id":305725,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1900,"height":1268,"file":"2021\/01\/organizatie-ortodoxa-invita-copiii-sa-aprofundeze-credinta-prin-concurs-de-scurtmetraje.jpg","sizes":{"medium":{"file":"organizatie-ortodoxa-invita-copiii-sa-aprofundeze-credinta-prin-concurs-de-scurtmetraje-890x594.jpg","width":890,"height":594,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/organizatie-ortodoxa-invita-copiii-sa-aprofundeze-credinta-prin-concurs-de-scurtmetraje-890x594.jpg"},"large":{"file":"organizatie-ortodoxa-invita-copiii-sa-aprofundeze-credinta-prin-concurs-de-scurtmetraje-1024x683.jpg","width":1024,"height":683,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/organizatie-ortodoxa-invita-copiii-sa-aprofundeze-credinta-prin-concurs-de-scurtmetraje-1024x683.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"organizatie-ortodoxa-invita-copiii-sa-aprofundeze-credinta-prin-concurs-de-scurtmetraje-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/organizatie-ortodoxa-invita-copiii-sa-aprofundeze-credinta-prin-concurs-de-scurtmetraje-360x360.jpg"},"1536x1536":{"file":"organizatie-ortodoxa-invita-copiii-sa-aprofundeze-credinta-prin-concurs-de-scurtmetraje-1536x1025.jpg","width":1536,"height":1025,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/organizatie-ortodoxa-invita-copiii-sa-aprofundeze-credinta-prin-concurs-de-scurtmetraje-1536x1025.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"3","credit":"","camera":"NIKON D800","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1532259298","copyright":"","focal_length":"105","iso":"200","shutter_speed":"0.008","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]}},"post":305728,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/organizatie-ortodoxa-invita-copiii-sa-aprofundeze-credinta-prin-concurs-de-scurtmetraje.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305728\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=305728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305728\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305725\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=305728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=305728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=305728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}