A searing indictment of racial injustice in America, inspired by the life and work of James Baldwin.
This is an online event. Bookers will be sent a link in advance giving access and will be able to watch at any time for 48 hours after the start time.
Eddie S. Glaude Jr of Princeton University follows the increasingly politicised journey of the poet of the revolution James Baldwin, in the years from The Fire Next Time in 1963 to
No Name in the Street in 1972. This was the time of the Civil Rights Movement, when attempts to force a confrontation with the truth of America s racism was answered with the murders of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.
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During the FIFDH Impact Day, it s all about asking the right questions
The participants in the FIFDH Impact Day
Laura Longobardi – “aims to gather filmmakers and changemakers to use the power of storytelling to make a positive impact on the world we live in”, the message was clear. When the right story meets the right audience, it has the potential to change the world. But there are some questions that filmmakers need to ask themselves first.
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Also including presentations featuring
Paco de Onís and
Pamela Yates, of Skylight, as well as a panel discussion about the role of philanthropy in financing film impact production, the event started with
Sundance Documentary Writing With Fire Smashes Indian Patriarchy, Exposes Caste System
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Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh’s debut feature “Writing With Fire,” the only Indian film in the Sundance world cinema documentary competition, shines a light on a unique, women-only news collective in small-town northern India.
The documentary follows the women behind news organization Khabar Lahariya as they make the transition from print to digital, shooting stories on their mobile phones and disseminating via their YouTube channel. The three women the film primarily follows – chief reporter Meera and reporters Suneeta and Shyamkali – needed no empowerment from the filmmakers. The journalists are from the Dalit community, a so-called ‘lower’ caste in India’s millenia old and entrenched caste system, a barrier that they triumphantly surmounted along with their sex in a deeply sexist part of the world.
FIFDH Impact Day organises a webinar on filming for human rights
20/01/2021 - The webinar is being held on 27 January and will focus on how storytellers can strengthen human rights movements, and contribute to achieving a more just and sustainable world
The third edition of FIFDH Impact Day, the special programme on impact strategy for documentaries at any stage of production, recently announced its 16 selected projects for this year (see the news). The programme, which is taking place from 8-9 March, as part of the 19
thGeneva International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH), is also organising the preparatory Impact Lab, an online workshop for its participants, which is running from 27-28 January.