Onsdag 10. oktober 2007

Kamp for globale sosiale rettigheter

ved bruk av dokumentarfilm.

I samarbeid med Film fra Sør

Kan dokumentarfilm skape en bedre verden? True Vision i Storbritannia mener det:

We don't make ‘chewing gum for the eye’. Instead we hope that every film we produce makes the world a very slightly better place.

I løpet av tolv år har de laget over 20 filmer. Ideen er at om publikum blir provosert nok av det de ser så vil de engasjere seg og bidra til å skape endringer.

Møt filmskaperne Jezza Neumann og Kate Blewett

før og etter visningene av deres filmer:

China's Stolen Children. Onsdag 10. okt. kl 18:00, Vika Kino

Slavery. Onsdag 10. okt. kl 20:45, Vika Kino

Oslo Dokumentarkino i samarbeid med Film Fra Sør viser to filmer av True Vision. Den ene av disse har allerede ført til endringer både i form av politiske beslutninger og større sosialt engasjement. Den andre filmen er helt ny men har skapt sterke reaksjoner allerede før den ble vist på TV første gang (08. okt. 2007 Channel 4 i Storbritannia).

Regissørene kommer til Oslo for å vise filmene og presentere sin oppfatning av dokumentarfilmens rolle i kampen for sosial rettferdighet.

China’s Stolen Children

Ons. 10. okt. kl 1800 og tors. 11.okt. kl 1100

Vika Kino

True Vision's latest film, China's Stolen Children is as the centre of a growing controversy over China's attempts to ban it. According to the Sunday Times the Chinese Embassy in London is seeking an injunction to prevent the film being shown, the Embassy has also complained to OfCom and written to the Channel Four Board. The film was screened on Channel 4 yesterday. Reaction is gathering now.

The film follows the parents of 5 year old Chen Jie as they desperately search for their kidnapped son, one of up to 70,000 children kidnapped and sold in China every year as a result of the One Child Policy. It includes secretly shot footage of a trafficker buying a one year old boy in a park, and negotiating the sale of the child to a couple in a hotel room.

Co-producers, HBO have entered the film for the 2008 Oscars. It is produced by Brian Woods and Kate Blewett, and is filmed and directed by debut director, Jezza Neumann. It has won the Audience Award at the BritDoc Film Festival.

Slavery: A global investigation

Ons. 10. okt. kl 2045-

Vika Kino

The second ‘documentary for social change’ is Slavery: A Global Investigation, from 2000. “In the old days slaves were expensive you kept them for their whole lives, you took care of them. Today they are cheap, there is a glut of slaves and when you've used them you throw them away if you don't want them any more - they're disposable."

After this film was shown the US Customs came to TrueVisionTV’s office to learn how they could ensure that slave produced goods didn’t enter the US. The chocolate industry set up the International Cocoa Initiative with the ILO to try to stamp out slavery in cocoa. The film won many awards including two Emmies, and one Peabody Award.

Other examples of changes in social justice resulting from films made by TrueVision include the following. There are many others.

The Dying Rooms, 1995: Exposing the policy of deliberately leaving girl babies to die in Chinese orphanages. After this film the UN demanded that China report on it’s progress in implementing the Declaration of Children’s Rights two years earlier than planned. China also changed its policy on orphanages and changed the law to exclude local adoption from One Child Policy Quotas. A new charity was established: COCOA (Care of China’s Orphaned and Abandoned) and is still going strong. The film won international acclaim, including an Emmy and a Peabody Award.

Eyes of a Child, 1999: Looking at child poverty through the eyes of children growing up across Britain. Five days after it was broadcast Tony Blair and Gordon Brown went on day-time television together to announce a raft of measure aimed at tackling child poverty.

Orphans of Ninkanda, 2004: This film was used to launch Make Poverty History, and as a direct result over 1 million pounds was donated to orphans and vulnerable children in South Africa.

Se www.truevisiontv.com  for andre filmer som World Without Water, Dying for Drugs, The Real Sex Trade, Bulgaria’s Abandoned Children, The Transplant Trade, How to be Happy.