[CMA R] Fwd: Edinburgh: Filmmaking & Activism - Free Panel
Discussions 4th & 7th July
Michelle McGuire
michelle at commedia.org.uk
Tue Jun 28 16:39:58 BST 2005
*Apologies for cross posting.
Forwarded From: "Sonja Henrici" <s.henrici at eca.ac.uk>
Begin forwarded message:
Twenty-to-One*: Films for a Greener Future
* The richest 20% of the world’s population possesses 86% of global
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) while the poorest 20% have to share only
1%.
Make Poverty History Campaign at St John’s Church on Princes Street,
Scottish Documentary Institute & Docspace Present:
Two FREE panel discussions looking at activism in documentary film-
making
Panellists include Franny Armstrong director of McLibel with Helen
Steel one of the “McLibel Two” whose famous battle with McDonalds
became known as the worst PR disaster in UK corporate history and
Herald Foreign Editor David Pratt, the only UK journalist to be
embedded with the US army during the recent Iraq war.
6.30pm Monday July 4th
The Media VS Indy-media
US filmmakers Brandon Jourdan/Ali Tonak from the Indymedia Collective,
UK filmmaker Nick Higgins, Docspace founder Amy Hardie,
Joel Venet Co-ordinator Pilton Video with young filmmaker Nick
Rutherford
David Pratt (Sunday Herald Foreign Editor)
Chaired by Glyn Davis – writer & film theorist
6.30pm Thursday July 7th
Political Filmmaking & Anti-Globalisation
Aimara Reques (Camcorder Guerillas), Franny Armstrong (director,
McLibel), Helen Steel (from McLibel),
Brandon Jourdan and Ali Tonak (Miami Model)
Joel Venet Co-ordinator Pilton Video with young filmmaker Nick Eardley
Chaired by Mike Groves - director of The Futurist Cinema Company
VENUE: St John’s Church, on the corner of Princes St & Lothian Rd
Admission: FREE (Donations to MAKE POVERTY HISTORY are welcome)
For further information, please call 0131 221 6245/6125
Part of the Twenty-To-One Film season, Filmhouse and GFT throughout July
www.docspace.org.uk
http://www.docspace.org.uk/Seasons-20To1.asp
Sponsored by Scottish Screen Lottery and run by Docspace & Scottish
Documentary Institute
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Sonja Henrici
Research Co-ordinator
Scottish Documentary Institute/Docspace
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Scotland, UK
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Michelle McGuire
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