City Strolls - events - meetings
Friday, March 16, 2007
Govan Film Festival
ViewPoints free film festival, Glasgow Films, talks and film workshops exploring migration and asylum themes. Friday 23rd March 6pm – 10pm Saturday 24th March 2pm – 10pm Pearce Institute – 840 Govan Road, Glasgow All films are free.
Programme attached, pasted below, and at"http://www.govanfilmclub.org.uk/ Direction to venue at foot of this email and on website.
ViewPoints is the first Govan Film Club project, a collaboration with Camcorder Guerillas and Plantation Productions to present a programme of films on the theme of migration. The main films will be screened in the recently refurbished Lithgow Theatre on the first floor of the Pearce Institute. Throughout the event a selection of short films will also be running in the space next to the café and bookfair on the ground floor.
During the day food will be available in the café, with a licensed bar in the evening. On Saturday the café space will also house the Radical Independent Bookfair – a travelling bookshop, library, videotheque, distribution space and meeting space. Visitors will also be able to record their thoughts on the themes of the event – or anything else – with Plantation Productions’ Vox Box.
Govan Film Club is a Govan Housing Association project. For more info, contact Angela Gardiner, Community Inclusion Coordinator: "mailto:angela@linthouseurbanvillage.com"
Info on Govan Film Club and full ViewPoints programme at:
"http://www.govanfilmclub.org.uk"
VIEWPOINTS PROGRAMME (pdf attached):
Friday 23 March
6:30pm - 7:45pm Camcorder Guerillas present three films:
Welcome (Camcorder Guerillas, 2004, 20 mins) Asylum Realities (Scottish Refugee Council, 2006, 25 mins) Those Left Behind (Camcorder Guerillas, 2007, 12 mins)
Three documentaries presented by "http://www.camcorderguerillas.net/"Camcorder Guerillas, a Glasgow-based collective making and showcasing films and documentaries that raise awareness of social justice issues facing our local communities. These three films look at the real life issues facing asylum seekers in Glasgow today.
Followed by open discussion on the issues facing asylum seekers in Glasgow today.
8:15pm
Si nos Dejan (If They Let Us) Ana Torres, 2005. 75 mins.
An upbeat documentary mapping the experiences of migrants living in Barcelona. With it’s fast rhythm and sharp approach, Si Nos Dejan tells the stories of people looking for something, coming with hope. A powerful insight into the diverse range of experiences of people living without permission.
Saturday 24 March
2pm - 4:00pm Camcorder Guerillas workshops.
2pm - 2:45
Workshop on campaigning and working with video. The workshop will be based around the processes of creating the films 'Welcome' and 'Those Left Behind'
3:15pm - 4pm
1. a technical workshop on the very basics of using a camera and getting useable sound; or
2: a discussion of local issues that could be given the Camcorder Guerilla treatment – by you?
5pm - 5:45pm
Survival Poetry - a reading from Ghazi Hussein
Born to a family in exile from Palestine, Ghazi was first imprisoned at the age of 14. Never charged, but 'guilty of carrying thoughts', he was repeatedly imprisoned and tortured over the next 20 years. Ghazi will be reading from Taking it Like a Man, his collection published by "http://www.communityinfosource.org.uk/"Community InfoSource.
6pm - 7pm Camcorder Guerillas present two films
Voice Seekers (Scottish Refugee Council collaboration, 2004, 15 minutes)
Visit Dungavel: Monster of the Glen (2004, 25 mins)
Voice Seekers lets you meet three refugees in Glasgow, and hear their stories in their own words. Visit Dungavel is a shocking, funny, informative and moving series of short films about the injustice of refugee detention.
Followed by open discussion on the issues facing asylum seekers in Glasgow today.
7:30pm - 9pm Tar Angel (L’Ange de Gaudron) Denis Chouinard, 2001. 98mins
The ViewPoints festival concludes with an award-winning drama from Canada. Three years after fleeing Algeria, and as his family approaches the final stages of Canadian citizenship application, a father discovers that his son has been involved in a cyber-terrorist attack on the computers of the federal immigration office.
The film will be followed by a question and answer session and open discussion, with director Denis Chouinard.
Govan Film Club is a Govan Housing Association project. For more info, contact Angela Gardiner, Community Inclusion Coordinator: "mailto:angela@linthouseurbanvillage.com"
"http://www.govanfilmclub.org.uk"
Directions to the Pearce Institute:
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