[ELECTRON] Document 7- International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival 21st-25th Oct 09, Glasgow.

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Press Release

Document 7 Programme Announced

Document International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival is  
proud to announce a dynamic programme of events and screenings for  
Document 7- CCA & GFT, Glasgow, 21st - 25th Oct 09.

Document is the UK's only dedicated human rights documentary  
festival, one of just 18 worldwide. This year, with a record number  
of submissions and a programme of premieres and award-winning  
documentaries, Document affirms its reputation as one of the most  
unique and anticipated events on the Scottish calendar.

Document 7 will screen over 60 outstanding national and international  
documentaries that look at human rights in its broadest sense, as  
personal stories with a global punch. Audiences can expect to find  
films that are both accessible and thought provoking, engaging and  
challenging, then debate them with invited speakers.

Document 7 will show films which cover ground often ignored or  
overlooked by the mainstream media - films that show how real people  
are affected by the great events of our age on their own turf, and  
how they deal with that - films in which people refuse to be defined  
simply as victims of circumstance.

Document 7 Highlights this year include the festival's opening film-  
Umoja: The Village Where Men Are Forbidden, tells the story of a  
group of women who form their own community in rural Northern Kenya.  
Sexually abused by British soldiers, and rejected by their husbands,  
they founded Umoja  in 1990- a thriving village where children of  
both sexes are treated equally, and from where the women go to  
neighbouring villages to raise awareness of gender equality, HIV/AIDS  
and circumcision issues; their only problem now is that they must  
defend themselves against the men, (comma)  who envy their success in  
making a new life on their own terms. French Directors Jean-Marc  
Sainclair and Jean Crousillal will be at the screening to introduce  
the film and lead a Q & A afterwards, and will be available for  
interview.

Goodbye, How Are You? proves the lie that human rights film has to be  
solemn or worthy, as Boris Mitic' tongue-in-cheek road movie slowly  
builds up a picture of the former Jugoslavia, its people and its  
culture, through a 'satirical-vérité narration' and over 400 unique  
'satirical documentary shots' filmed on a three-year, 50.000 km trip  
along Balkan side roads.

China's Wild West shows that beautiful images can also have a moral  
purpose in a cinematically striking film which follows a day in the  
life of a Muslim Uighur community in their hopeful efforts to  
discover Jade in the harsh conditions of a dried-up river bed near a  
remote town on the old Silk Road in Western China.

Durakovo: Village of Fools examines a “utopian” community 100 km  
southwest of Moscow owned by Mikhail Morozov- Russian patriot, good  
Christian and successful businessman. People come there from all over  
Russia to learn how to become “true Russians” by abandoning all their  
former rights and obeying Morozov's strict rules. Purposefully  
restrained, yet cunningly subversive, Durakovo: Village Of Fools  
provides a chilling glimpse of fascist ideology on the rise.
Still Black: A Portrait of Black Transmen is a groundbreaking work  
which helps illuminate the debate surrounding the role of race in  
transitional experience. Kortney Ryan Ziegler, African American  
filmmaker from California, film student of Spike Lee, will present a  
Glasgow School of Art Friday Event and screen Still Black at the GFT  
on Sunday 25th October 2pm - 4pm. Zeigler will also available for  
interview.

To run in tandem with a series of discussions surrounding the current  
situation for UK asylum seekers, we will be screening a number of  
short films from the The Estate series. Directed by Ruth Carslaw,  
these films uncover the lives of individuals living on the Sighthill  
council estate in Glasgow in the year leading up to its demolition.  
The 7 selections included are specifically focused on the lives of  
refugees, which build into a compelling portrait of asylum in  
contemporary Scotland.

Document 7 will also host a programme of LGBT themed screenings and  
discussions to coincide with Glasgay. This will include a roundtable  
discussion with LGBT Youth Scotland & Our Story Scotland and the  
screening of Living Queer African and Le(s)banese, an eye-opening  
documentary that reveals the truth about life for young Lesbians in  
the Lebanon. Intimate stories are interspersed with humorous  
anecdotes that reveal the tension between religion and identity in  
the Arab-speaking world, whilst also positioning Lebanon as a seat of  
liberal acceptance in the region.

Other strands include a full programme of films concerning women's  
experience with dedicated screenings and discussions, as well as a  
forum dedicated to Poverty, Advocacy & Action.

Exhibitions of work by photographers Martin Coyne and Martina Salvi  
will run concurrently in the CCA Bar, contrasting the lives of child  
workers in India with those of adults in the factories of  
contemporary China.

If that wasn't enough, at the end of the night surprise musical  
guests will entertain us in the café bar…

By providing a platform for a broad range of ideas, individuals, and  
discussions, Document 7 will sustain the principle of lively and open  
debate which has characterised the festival from the start. In an  
increasingly interconnected global milieu, Document remains a vital  
forum for information exchange, and for the celebration of shared  
human values across all contrived or imposed boundaries.

The full programme is available from October at: www.docfilmfest.org.uk
Press Screening: 11.00am - 12.30am, Tues 6th Oct 09, CCA, Glasgow.
Press Enquiries: Paula Larkin, docfestinfo at gmail.com 07765 396226

Tickets

Ticket Prices:
Day Passes			Waged £15	Unwaged £10
4 Day Festival Passes	Waged £35	Unwaged £20
Single Screenings		Waged £4	Unwaged £2
All programmes are free to asylum seekers/refugees

Box Office:
CCA films & Festival Passes	CCA 	0141 352 4900	www.cca-glasgow.com
GFT	 films				GFT 	0141 332 6535	www.gft.org.uk


Paula Larkin
Coordinator / Development Worker
Document Festival

tel: 00 44 141 357 4212
m: 07765396226
www.docfilmfest.org.uk

Document 7- International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival
21st-25th Oct 09, Glasgow.



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