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Edinburgh: Filmmaking & Activism - Free Panel Discussions 4th & 7th July
From: "Sonja Henrici" <s.henrici at eca.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 13:17:53 +0100

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
eca ~ 74 Lauriston Place ~ Edinburgh ~ EH3 9DF ~
Scotland, UK

info*a*docspace.org.uk

www.scottishdocinstitute.com
www.docspace.org.uk
www.cinemaneteurope.com
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