Public Health Film Festival

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

The Public Health Film Festival (PHFF){{cite journal|title=Reflections on the United Kingdom's first public health film festival|first1=Stella|last1=Botchway|first2=Uy|last2=Hoang|date=1 January 2016|journal=Perspectives in Public Health|volume=136|issue=1|pages=23–24|doi=10.1177/1757913915619120|pmid=26702114|s2cid=21969020}}{{cite journal|author=Beth Hibbert |url=http://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f6509 |title=A film festival for health |journal=BMJ|date=2013-10-29 |volume=347 |pages=f6509 |doi=10.1136/bmj.f6509 |pmid=24169093 |s2cid=29866039 |accessdate=2017-07-26}} 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).{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0032046/overview/|title = Public Health Film Festival| website=IMDb }}

The first three editions of the PHFF have been hosted by The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities (TORCH){{cite web|url=http://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/public-health-film-festival|title=Public Health Film Festival - TORCH|website=Torch.ox.ac.uk|accessdate=2017-07-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170501142927/http://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/public-health-film-festival|archive-date=2017-05-01|url-status=dead}} 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 2nd, 3rd, and 4th editions of the PHFF have hosted screenings of winning films from the International Public Health Film Competition.{{cite journal|title=First International Public Health Film Competition 2016—reflections on the development and use of competition judging criteria|first1=U.|last1=Hoang|first2=P.|last2=Luna|first3=P.|last3=Russell|first4=L.|last4=Bergonzi-King|first5=J.|last5=Ashton|first6=C.|last6=McCarthy|first7=H.|last7=Donovan|first8=P.|last8=Inman|first9=O.|last9=Seminog|first10=S.|last10=Botchway|date=1 March 2018|journal=Journal of Public Health|volume=40|issue=1|pages=169–174|doi=10.1093/pubmed/fdx022|pmid=28369436|doi-access=free}}{{cite web|url=http://publichealthfilms.org/public-health-film-competition-2016/|title=Public Health Film Competition 2016|date=12 September 2016|website=Publichealthfilms.org|accessdate=9 December 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://publichealthfilms.org/international-public-health-film-competition-2018/|title=International Public Health Film Competition 2018|date=10 October 2018|website=Publichealthfilms.org|accessdate=9 December 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://publichealthfilms.org/international-public-health-competition-2020-winners-announced/|title=International Public Health Film Competition 2020|date=27 October 2020|website=Publichealthfilms.org|accessdate=22 November 2020}}{{cite journal|title=Reflections on running an International Public Health Film Competition during the COVID-19 pandemic and implications for future film festivals|first1=U.|last1=Hoang|first2=K.|last2=Sharma|first3=P.|last3=Russell|first4=L.|last4=Bergonzi-King|first5=N.|last5=Kapoor|first6=M.|last6=Rae|first7=O.|last7=Seminog|date=4 February 2021|journal=Journal of Communication in Healthcare|volume=14|issue=|pages=8–11|doi=10.1080/17538068.2021.1878751|pmid=|doi-access=}}https://betterhealthforall.org/2024/11/20/ai-and-public-health-film-a-collaboration-on-the-5th-international-public-health-film-competition/

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.{{cite web|url=http://publichealthfilms.org/lucy-breaking-the-silence-scoops-our-inaugural-audience-award/|title='Lucy: Breaking the Silence' scoops our inaugural Audience Award|date=9 December 2018|website=Publichealthfilms.org|accessdate=9 December 2018}}