title: First International Public Health Film Competition 2016-reflections on the development and use of competition judging criteria.
abstract: Film competitions can be a helpful method to understand issues of quality in health films. In this paper, we describe the development and use of explicit quality criteria to identify the 'best' films for the first ever international public health film competition.
  
  
  
  A film selection committee encompassing a range of stakeholders was compiled. The committee drew up 10 explicit quality criteria to judge films drawing upon other film festival's selection criteria. These criteria were then applied to a broad range of health-related films entered into a film competition to select the 'best' film to screen.
  
  
  
  Eighty-four films from 20 different countries were submitted to the public health film competition. The originality of the subject covered by the film, the public health importance of the issue and story-telling approach in the film were found to be the most discriminatory criteria to select films.
  
  
  
  Selection of health films for festivals can be undertaken using explicit quality criteria. There are a number of advantages to such an approach; however, explicit selection involves a large commitment of resources from film festival organizers and there is further research required to test the validity of the quality criteria applied to health-related films.
authors.affiliation: Public Health Film Society, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK.|UK Faculty of Public Health, London NW1 4LB, UK.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Hoang
authors.affiliation: APHA Global Public Health Film Festival, Washington, DC 20001, USA.|RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA 90401, USA.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Luna
authors.affiliation: British Film Institute, London W1T 1LN, UK.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Russell
authors.affiliation: APHA Global Public Health Film Festival, Washington, DC 20001, USA.|TriBella Productions, Guilford, CT 06437, USA.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bergonzi-King
authors.affiliation: UK Faculty of Public Health, London NW1 4LB, UK.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ashton
authors.affiliation: Medical Aid Films, London WC2A 3ED, UK.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: McCarthy
authors.affiliation: Royal College of Nursing, London W1G 0RN, UK.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Donovan
authors.affiliation: Oxford Brookes University, Oxford OX3 0BP, UK.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Inman
authors.affiliation: Public Health Film Society, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Seminog
authors.affiliation: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6GG, UK.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Botchway
mesh_terms: D001363:Awards and Prizes; D038622:Internationality; D009040:Motion Pictures; D011634:Public Health