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Document is Scotland’s longest standing human rights films festival. Established in 2002 by Mona Rai and Paula Larkin they sought to counter the negative mainstream narrative surrounding immigration, refugees and the Roma people. Having shown 500 plus films in its thirteen year history - Document is continuing to challenge the status quo. Through collaborative community screenings around Glasgow to our ever growing national tour we seek to challenge and inspire. We are a proud member of the Human Rights Film Network and Radical Film Network - organisations that promote cultural exchange, education and human rights awareness through film.
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PERSPECTIVE(S): A PARTICULAR ATTITUDE TOWARDS OR WAY OF REGARDING SOMETHING.
The power of a single image has been yet again proven in 2015. Why it has taken. With the refugee crisis hitting a fever pitch there is more reason then ever to act. When Mona Rai and Paula Larkin founded Document in 2002 they wanted Scotland's first Human Rights Film Festival to counter the aggressive anti-immigrant and Roma narratives in the national press. We have shown over some 500 films in the past thirteen years and Scotland has proven to be an amazing place to cultivate socially conscious festivals. And yet the stigma of the other remains in this ever increasing interconnected world.
With all the information we have about the migration and refugee crises, economic instability, conflicts and corruption of corporations is the goal for international human rights in vain? We like to believe it isn't. At its heart Document is dedicated to exploring the ways film can educate and inspire conversation and ultimately change. 2015's programme celebrates the voices of many. With an international programme that examines issues as diverse as; identity, sustainable energy, female autonomy, political prisoners, and revolution - Document aims to shed new
light on issues that people might think they know the whole story of. There is something to be learned from examining the past - hindsight is 20/20. There are twenty seven exceptional films for you to discover that deftly mix artistry and politics over the course of the festival weekend. But it's collaboration that will truly ratify change. We are very happy to announce co-screenings with the likes of the Radical Film Network, SQIFF, SMHAFF, and AiM. Our new initiative of community videotheques across the city brings selections of our programme that people can access for free. There's also
the chance to see how activists are using film in the field courtesy of workshops facilitated by the likes of Life Mosaic, Digital Desperados, Enable Scotland , The Glasgow Human Rights Network and SCREENs Seminar. Document in 2015 will continue to challenge stigma and complacency. We are living in decisive times it's only right to stay informed, passionate, and maintain perspective.
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A-Z F I L MS Cover illustration by Anderston Torp Commissioned to produce an image for this year’s festival I drew on the legacy of Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, political activist and formerly the youngest ever MP (and former keynote speaker at Document in 2011), who was denied the floor in the House of Commons by the Speaker Selwyn Lloyd, as my inspiration. Anderston Torp is an illustrator working and living in Glasgow. http://anderstontorp.tumblr.com/ anderston.torp@gmail.com
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9999 Ellen Vermeulen / 2014 / 74mins / Belgium Mentally ill criminals in Belgium are not held responsible for their actions but rather become separated from society. Due to the lack of places in psychiatric hospitals they end up in prison without any possibility for therapy nor end date. Date of Release: 31/12/9999. Ellen Vermeulen’s film follows the stories of five different inmates in Merksplas’ Prison waiting for a time when they are not considered outcasts. In this beautifully shot and empathetic film we travel into a real-life purgatory, as we follow individuals in need of treatment but denied it.
Agora Yorgos Avgeropoulos / 2015 / 115 mins / Greece Made over four years with unparralled access to politicians, bureaucrats, academics and everyday people - Yorgos Avgeropoulos’ Agora is a comprehensive documentation of the economic crisis in Greece. He witnesses popular protests in the streets, the development of solidarity movements as well as the rise of fascism, while at the same time he seeks answers from his country’s most significant political personalities, from insiders, analysts and key decision makers from the international political scene. Screening introduced by Dr. Myrto Tsakatika, Lecturer in Politics, University of Glasgow
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Bring the sun home Giovanni Pellegrini, Chiara Andrich / 2014 / 67mins / Italy The Barefoot College in India has been providing basic services and solutions to problems in rural communities for more than 40 years, with the objective of making them self-sufficient and sustainable. Bring the Sun Home follows two personal stories: Maura and Rosa, two illiterate women from a village with no electricity in the mountains in Peru were recruited to join the college. While At the same time in Southern Peru, Jenny and Paula, having just returned from India are leading teams that are installing the panels throughout their community. The Barefoot College, founded on the principles of Ghandi, is a place that the impossible can become possible. Inviting women from around the world to take part in courses that imbue them with skills that make them leaders in their communities. This international project has proven incredibly effective and empowering to communities the world over.
Camcorder Guerillas Retrospective Camcorder Guerillas / 2015 / 90 mins / Scotland This retrospective takes in the eleven years Camcorder Guerrillas work. Their commitment to local issues and direct action define them as one of the most important social action groups in Scotland. Utilising film not only as a document but as an activist and educational tool. Tackling subjects as varied as detention centres and asylum seekers to maintaining community landmarks. This screening will show a number of clips and shorts and finish a screening of their recent release of “United We Will Swim...again�. Founding members Inigo Garrido, Fran Higson and Cassandra McGrogan will be in discussion with Cayley James.
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Cartographers
Desaparecidos
Valentina Bonizzi / 2015 / 24 mins / Scotland-Italy
Carla Novi / 2015 / 70 mins / Mexico-Scotland
Bonizzi’s short film combines aerial imagery of rural, metropolitan views with domestic settings signify transience and temporality within the experiences of people who’s lives have been shaped through migration. Both physically and imaginatively. Through their own words, we hear how their knowledge and sense of themselves transcend state-defined ideologies and conventions. The film provokes consideration of new social cartographies operated from underneath albeit only just emerging from a deeply-rooted historical phenomenon. Produced with support from Arts ad Business Scotland and IFSWW.
Protests erupted in Mexico after 43 students attending the rural teacher’s college of Ayotzinapa disappeared on the 26th of September 2014. People from different backgrounds, classes and ages, united and took to the streets to express their outrage. They organized peaceful rallies and demonstrations, demanding the government take action to find the students. As a result, many citizens involved in the demonstrations have been threatened, abducted as political prisoners, tortured and murdered. Desaparecidos follows the stories of a few Mexicans from the current generation who live with the risk of being disappeared because of their participation in the recent protests for the missing 43. Q + A panel with Beth Pearson (Phd South American Politics) on the role of documentary in Latin American Cinema. Desapareicdos will be preceded by Donde Estian (5 mins)
Part of HOME triple bill. presented in collaboration with GRAMnet.
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Euromaidan Rough Cut Roman Bondarchuk, Aleksey Solodunov, Andrey Kiselyov, Andriy Lytvynenko, Dmitry Stoykov, Kateryna Gornostai, Oleksandr Techynskyi, Roman Liubyi, Volodymyr Tykhyi, Yulia Gontaruk / 2014 / 60 mins / Ukraine
The Fading Valley
What does it look like when the streets of the Ukraine’s capital are turned into a war zone? A collage of stories uncovers last year’s transformation of Kiev’s Independence Square, or Maidan, which took place beneath an onslaught of tear gas during anti-government demonstrations. The situation escalated from playful protests in winter into the most extreme levels of violence and chaos. What motivates Ukrainians to place their own bodies against the police cordons? Where do opinions diverge and when does solidarity triumph? The personal portraits of the protesters form a mosaic of stories that is far from completed. Introduction by Lecturer Neil Davidson of The University of Glasgow. Post-screening discussion with filmmaker Roman Bondarchuk on revolution in 21st century Europe.
In the fertile Jordan Valley there is a group of Palestinian farmers who are hidden from sight. Their pastures have been declared military areas, their wells have been closed up, and the water has been diverted to the Jewish residents of the valley. Without water there is no life – and agriculture is disappearing. Some have given up and moved to the city. Others have been forced to work in the very settlements that have taken over their own lands. This film bears witness to the lives of these farmers whose rights have been taken away and who have become like illegal residents in their own land. These residents are slowly disappearing. This is their story. Screenings introduced by Dr Nick McKerrell and William Henderson, lecturers in Human Rights Law, MSc Human Rights, Glasgow Caledonian University.
Irit Gal / 2013 / 54 mins / Israel
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God is not Working on Sunday! Leona Goldstein / 2015 / 84 mins / Germany Since the genocide in Rwanda, many things have changed. One of them is role of women in society. Twenty years ago, women were not allowed to talk publicly without the permission of their husbands. Today they are not only in positions of political power, but women organize themselves in initiatives all over the country and have build a vibrant, independent women’s network. Our entrance to this world is through the work of Godelieve and Florida - community organisers and powerful forces. God Is Not Working on Sunday! reflects the women’s appeal to direct action at the individual and community levels. Humans cannot simply wait for other forces – godly or governmental – to provide a better future for them. We must do it for ourselves. Co-presented with Africa in Motion Film Festival.
Goodnight Sarajevo Edu Marin and Olivier Algora / 2014 / 62 mins / Spain During the siege of Sarajevo , Boris Minic - a much loved broadcaster on national radio - was a voice of the reason. The city was held hostage for just under four years. The longest siege of capital city in modern history - and the scars still remain. Twenty years on Minic returns home. Taking the filmmakers and audiences alike on a very personal tour of his beloved city. From open markets and the radio station to his old apartment. Goodnight, Sarajevo is a powerful documentary that explores the public and private memories of one of the most harrowing moments in twentieth century history. Part of BALKANS double bill. Presented in collaboration with Maryhil Integration Network
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The Ground beneath Their Feet Nausheen Dadabhoy / 2015 / 75 mins / USA-Pakistan In Nausheen Dababhoy’s inspiring film we meet two women struggling to redefine themselves in the face fo a traditional society. The Ground Beneath Their Feet tells the story of Khalida and Ruqiya who have been paralyzed when a devastating earthquake strikes the north of Pakistan. The film explores the evolution of their attitudes, bodies, and futures over five years as they struggle with their physical and emotional recovery and redefine what it means to be a woman in the Muslim world.
Honey on Wounds Iulia Stoian / 2014 / 30 mins / Romania During the Kosovo War thousands of Albanian women witnessed the execution of their husbands and were victims of sexual abuse. Although the war has been over for more than decade they have been forbidden to remarry or lead independent lives. In one village of widows, though, they are being shown an unorthodox but very effective way to start the begin their journey of healing. Beekeeping. Part of BALKANS double bill. Presented in collaboration with Maryhil Integration Network
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Jikoo, a wish Christophe Leroy and Adrian Camus / 2014 / 52 mins / France In Senegal the EU is making way for the “Delta du Saloum”. A national park on the country’s Atlantic coast, that will is set to become a World Heritage Site. The only drawback is that there are people living in the area, some of them for generations, who have found their own way of co-existing with nature and have good reason to doubt that tourism can be sustainable. “Jikoo, a Wish” looks at this conflict between international agencies and the inhabitants of the village of Bakadadji. These people have a very simple wish: a fence, please, to protect their fields from marauding warthogs which they are forbidden to hunt under threat of punishment. Tens of millions of Euros and US dollars are disappearing down the drip filters of the national administration, which is why there is no money left for a fence. Let the peasants dance for the ecotourists instead, and they won’t need their fields any more. What to do? The film does not answer this question. It only holds a mirror up to us. Here. Part of CROFTING Double Bill. Post-screening discussion with members of the Scottish Crofting Federation.
JUS SOLI Somebody Nobody (Simon Jenkins, Michael McLeod and Joshua Llewellyn ) / 2015 / 16 mins / UK JUS SOLI is a latin phrase meaning “right of the soil”. This beautiful short from London based filmmaking collective, SOMEBODY NOBODY, examines the Black British experience. Interrupting key events in Britain’s recent history to question and probe the British psyche and attitude towards it’s Black population, placing it in a wider context of what it means to be British. Part of HOME triple bill. presented in collaboration with GRAMnet.
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Lights Out Glasgow Chris Leslie / 2015 / 10 mins / Scotland In Chris Leslie’s most recent filmmaking project, he turns his attention to the Glasgow’s Whitevale and Bluevale “Twin Towers” in the East End. Looking beyond their infamy and uncovering the psychogeographic relationship between tenant and space. 25% of Glasgow’s high rise flats have been demolished in since 2006. When they were built in 1969 they were seen as the utopian answer to the city’s housing crisis. Forty-five years later they are a dystopian nightmare after years of crime and neglect. Lights Out is a short film that comprises of 4 years of documentation, timelapse recordings and audio interviews with the first and last residents of the Twin Towers in Glasgow prior to their demolition. Part of HOME triple bill. presented in collaboration with GRAMnet.
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Line in the Sand Tomas Borsa and Jean Philippe Marquis / 2015 / 79 mins / Canada Filmed over the course of two years, Line In The Sand - quite literally - follows in the tracks of one of the most contested oil pipelines in the world. Filmmakers Jean Phillipe and Tomas traverse the Canadian landscape from the oil sands in Alberta, through the Rocky Mountains and to the Pacific coast in Haida Gwaii. Line in the Sand explores not only the environmental impact of the Northern Gateway Pipeline but the human toll as well. The documentary examines the political context precipitating the approval of the Northern Gateway and highlights the imminence and uncertainty felt at the local level. The film lays bare the visceral connection felt by those who call the land home, their struggles to be heard, and the lengths to which many are willing to go to protect their sense of place and identity.
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Mulheres Elisa Bucchi, Nicola Bogo / 2014 / 24 mins / Italy Since gaining independence from Portugal in 1975, Mozambique has been wrecked by financial instability. This was only intensified by a thirteen year civil war that left nearly a million dead. 95% of which were civilians. Mulhueres is set in Zambezia, one of Mozambique’s poorest regions and at the same time the most populous in the country. Work in the agricultural field is mainly done by women, this sector sees 80% of female employment. They play a key role in food security, nutrition fields and the family economy, but they are often victims of discrimination, domestic violence and social exclusion. This is the story of two Zambezian women that are fighting without weapons, as they parade toward their rice fields every morning. Mulheres reveals how they are living, what they think, what they hide and what they invent every day to survive in a society that continues to discriminate them, in various forms and under various aspects. Part of CROFTING Double Bill. Post-screening discussion with the Scottish Crofting Federation.
Nana Lara Chrtisten / 2015 / 39 mins / Greece What is it like to be invisible? Nana combines observation, interview and archive to construct a portrait of a seventy-year old trans woman living in Thessaloniki. Lara Chrtisten’s documentary looks at the world through the eyes of someone who has managed to survive and love despite what seems to be insurmountable struggle and yet she is hardly a tragic figure. Nana is as humourous as it is thoughtful - challenging our notion of what it means to be seen. Part of OUTSIDERS Double Bill. Introduced by Dr Matthew Waites, Lecturer in Sociology, University of Glasgow.
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Portrait of Jason
a quiet inquisition
Shirley Clarke / 1966 / 103 mins / USA
Alessandra Zeka, Holen Kahn / 2014 / 80 mins / USA
On the night of December 2, 1966, Shirley Clarke and a tiny crew convened in her apartment at the Hotel Chelsea to make a film. There, for twelve straight hours they filmed the one-and-only Jason Holliday as he spun tales, sang, donned costumes and reminisced about good times and bad behavior as a gay hustler, sometime houseboy and aspiring cabaret performer. The result is a mesmerizing portrait of a remarkable, charming and tortured man, who is by turns hilarious and heartbreaking. Hailed as one of the most important art films of the twentieth century - A Portrait of Jason - is a proto verite documentary with shades of the Maysle Brothers and John Cassavettes. Co-presented with Scottish Queer International Film Festival. Introduced by SQIFF programmer, Sam Kenyon.
Made without the knowledge of the authorities, directors Alessandra Zeka and Holen Sabrina Kahn, gain unprecedented access to the medical world of Nicaragua. Where at a public hospital in Managua, an OBGYN Doctor struggles with her conscience as she contends with the harrowing implications of a new law that prevents the termination of any pregnancy, even when a woman’s life is at stake. As the Doctor and her colleagues navigate the fears of prosecution and whether to the use medical protocols that enable them to save lives, the drama of the deadly impact of this law emerges, illuminating the reality of prohibition against the backdrop of a political, religious and historically complex national identity. Presented in collaboration with Abortion Rights Scotland.
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Shadow Fighters
Superior Orders
Josefine Heimburger / 2015 / 32 mins / Denmark
Viktor Oszkár Nagy, András Petrik / 2015 / 52 mins / Hungary
Shadow Fighters is a stirring documentary that follows the lives of two albino men in Tanzania. Mashaka, a teacher in his early 30s in Mwanza and Abdul, an 11-year-old boy in Dar Es Salaam - two fighters who seek to get out from under the social stigma of their condition.
Superior Orders examines a hot button issue in Eastern Europe, where along the hotly contested Hungarian and Serbian border, migrants from Asia and Africa are currently trying to cross the border into the EU. In Anikó Mangold’s immersive documentary, he examines both sides of the story. Immersing himself in the community of volunteer border patrol on the Hungarian side - and a Serbian pastor who is helping the migrants make it safely to the other side.
Part of OUTSIDERS Double Bill. Introduced by Dr Matthew Waites, Lecturer in Sociology, Universtiy of Glasgow.
Introduced by and presented in collaboration with Campaign to Welcome Refugees.
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Toto and His Sisters This is Exile Mani, Yassir Benchelah / 2015 / 56 mins / France-Turkey ‘This is Exile’ is an extraordinary intimate portrait of child refugees forced to flee from the violence of Syria’s civil war to neighbouring Lebanon. Filmed over a year, the documentary tells the stories of the childrens’ lives in their own words and captures the moving truth of how they deal with loss, hardship and the poignancy of dashed hopes. Their testimony in this film is a beautifully crafted microcosm of the human cost of the ongoing civil war in Syria that has forced over 4 million people to flee; half of whom are children. With its poetic visual style, there is space for the mind to wander through the film’s locations and to understand the profoundly disturbing truth that these children are unlikely to see their homeland again until adulthood. Introduced by and presented in collaboration with Campaign to Welcome Refugees.
Alexander Nanau / 2014 / 92 mins / Romania Following his Emmy award-winning observational documentary, Alexander Nanau brings us the astonishing family story of Toto (10), and his sisters, Ana (17) and Andreea (15). During their mother’s imprisonment, Toto passionately learns dancing, reading and writing, while his sisters try to keep the family together in a world that has long forgotten what the innocence of childhood should be. What happens when we discover that we can get more from life than our parents have to offer?
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SCREENS Seminar with Steve Presence One Screening Away from Disaster Thursday 15 October 17:30 Gilmorehill, University of Glasgow
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The Radical Film Network (RFN) was founded in September 2013 to provide infrastructural support to ‘radical film culture’ in Britain and elsewhere. Broadly characterised by a politically engaged and/or aesthetically innovative use of moving image media, ‘radical film culture’ has expanded rapidly in recent years as contemporary socio-political, economic and environmental contexts have meshed with access to digital technologies. Comprised of academics, artists, filmmakers and other digital creatives as well as festivals, distributors, archives and a whole host of community organisations and production collectives, the RFN now consists of more than one-hundred organisations across twenty countries. The first part of the seminar will reflect on the brief history of the network, its development thus far and some of the challenges involved in developing and sustaining an independent, international network for an already marginalised film culture that is chronically under-funded and under-resourced. The second part will focus in more detail on the RFN’s exhibition sector and some of the festivals, collectives and cooperatives involved. These range from online TV stations such as Argentina’s TVPS to festivals and clubs such as Mexico’s Festival Internacional del Cine Pobre/Festival of Poor Cinema or Ireland’s Guerrilla Film Club. Exploring three exhibitors in the UK – the Liverpool Radical Film Festival, The Birmingham Film Coop and the Manchester Film Coop – Steve will discuss their distinct approaches to ‘radical’ film and the motivations, challenges and achievements of this most precarious, committed mode of film activism.
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Document and the Glasgow Human Rights Network have come together to present two special screenings. The Student Forum will feature creenings of Nima Sarvestani’s “Those Who Said No” and Lee Salter’s “The Fourth Estate” - followed by workshops led by Beth Pearson from the GHRN. She will be joined by Steve Presence of the Radical Film Network and Norma McKinnon of Freedom From Torture. It’s your chance to engage and converse on some of the most pressing issues of our time! Whether it’s the history of publishing, micro-budget filmmaking, freedom of information or political prisoners - there will be a plethora of issues to unpack and spark conversation. 12:00 - 15:30 The Fourth Estate (80mins) Produced in the UK on a zero-budget, the filmmakers spent two years contacting and interviewing journalists, organisers and critics of the corrupt industrial practices highlighted by, but not limited to, the Leveson Inquiry in 2011. This opportunity for serious consideration of the true, entrenched causes and effects of the UK’s inadequate media must not go unexplored, and the recent press scandals must not be framed in terms of the “bad apple” soundbites we’re so often fed. The Fourth Estate examines the people and practices of the media industries. Illuminating not only specific incidences of corruption by press groups, but how the wider business as a whole, including the film and entertainment industries, has a huge amount to answer for in the state of the political economy of the west. 13:30 - 17:00 Those Who Said No (89mins) After 25 years of silence, for the first time in history, survivors and relatives of the victims of a mass atrocity establish a People’s Court in The Hague. They do this while the accused continue to rule in Iran, holding high positions in the government. Nimanstani’s film follows Iraj, is a victims of terrible crimes. He was on death row in Iran’s most notorious prison. Tortured and facing execution, he did not expect to survive. Like the thousands who were executed, there were no charges laid against him and he was never taken to court. Today, he and all the other survivors face the world’s indifference. Yet, they refuse to be silenced.
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Enable Scotland Saturday 17 October 16:30 CCA Club Room
Enable is the leading charity for working with people with learning disabilities in the community. Founded in 1954 they’ve sought to ensure that people who have learning disabilities have the same choices and opportunities in life as everyone else. Join us at Document this year as we present a collection of short films looking at the issues affecting people with a learning disability. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Peter McMahon, director of the My Life - http://www. petermcmahonmylife.co.uk
Collaboration with Milngavie & Beasrden Enable. LoveMusic/Hate Racism @ Project Cafe Saturday 17 October 20:00 The Project Cafe
Love Music/Hate Racism has teamed up with Document to showcase some of the best socially conscious music this city has to offer. Come down to the Project Cafe for The Southside Socialist Choir with more names to be announced. This event is by donation and BYOB. Hope to see you there!
Life Mosaic / Land Grabs, Land Rights and Indigenous Peoples Sunday 18 October 13:30 -15:00 CCA Club Room
This session is a round table discussion and screening led by LifeMosaic. This session will cover the global situation of land grabs and their impacts on human rights and the environment, as well as describing the leadership from indigenous peoples in global movements for positive social and environmental change. LifeMosaic will share our approach of using video to empower communities to defend their rights, territories and cultures and decide their own self-determined futures. We will screen a short called Land Grabs about global rush for land, and another titled Plan de Vida (Life Plan) about the Misak indigenous people in the Cauca valley of Colombia who have developed and are carrying out their Plan de Vida, a unique long-term vision for reclaiming their past and deciding their long-term futures on their own terms. Both videos are part of the Territories of Life toolkit, a series of 10 short videos that share stories of resistance, resilience and hope with communities on the frontline of the global rush for land. The round-table discussion will focus on a discussion of how communities organise to determine their own futures, and will connect indigenous peoples struggle for rights to their territories and the Scottish movement for land rights.
Digital Desperados Subtitling Workshop Sunday 18 October 15:00 - 18:00 CCA Club Room
Radical Independent Bookfair CCA 1st Floor
Places: 6 Technical level: Good working knowledge of Final Cut Pro/Express *this w/shop will not cover FCP X Duration: 3 hours Requirements: Mac laptop with Final Cut Pro installed and suitable headphones. Please also install Mpeg Streamclip - available free online - in time for the w/shop. please also ensure that your laptop has 100GB, or more, memory free. No PCs/ Premiere Pro sorry! Booking: Pre booking required. If cancelling please inform us a minimum of 4 days before the w/shop as places are very limited.
Glasgow’s Radical Independent Bookfair project presents ‘black box’… (physically in the form of a black fold out booth and visually as a ‘recorder’ of current, recent and past radical events and activities…) this stand will have an array of materials squeezed into it including… new titles from AK Press, Angry Artworks t-shirts, Govanhill Baths’ bags, second hand Unity books, Feral Trade coffee as well as old publications to swap, Document and other documentary dvds to watch, customised stickers for kids and of course an array of other free materials. The stall is open for the duration of Document - so pop along and browse the books and other stuff.
Perspective(s) - a Video Art Installation presented by Picture Window
Subtitling for filmmakers and curators. Digital Desperados will introduce the participants to the technical aspects of subtitling and demonstrate two simple methods of subtitling films 1) from within the timeline and 2) Using a film that has been already compressed by a filmmaker and sent to be screened. The workshop will also cover importing and exporting films with the relevant codecs.
This year’s video installation by Eileen Daily will take as its point of departure, perspectives. Contemporary documentary practice has moved from a search for empirical fact and a singular truth, to negotiating a world of perspectives and truths. Contemporary documentary thus draws itself ever closer to visual art. Founded in April 2012 by artists Annie Crabtree and Eileen Daily, Picture Window specialises in producing performance and projection work for public spaces. The project’s aim is to confront the audience with the challenge of contemporary art in a context unexpected.
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People Power Double Bill: A Time Comes and McLibel with Scalarama and Radical Film Network 24 Sept, 19:00 Govanhill Baths, 99 Calder St, G42 7RA. Free, donations encouraged. A TIME COMES / Nick Broomfield (2009) / 20 mins MCLIBEL / Franny Armstrong (2005) / 85 mins In light of the General Election 2015 results in the UK there was a feeling that the ‘powers-that-be’ had won and that the people were about to face the consequences of this. Has all been lost? The Radical Film Network has responded by gathering a collection of its affiliated groups together to show through film, the power that the people have when they unite over a common cause for a collective struggle. The People Power event will take place on Thursday 24th September with 6 double-bill screenings of A Time Comes (2009) and McLibel (2005) happening up-and-down the country. The events aim to unite individuals within the screening space and foster dialogues of what we can do as individuals and as collectives to effect change. It’s about positivity, unity and struggle. So, if you want to join us in this motion-picture collective union, check out the screening list or get involved in the online discussion by using #PeoplePower on Twitter. The events are being supported by the #Scalarama2015 programme.
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with Scottish Queer International Film Festival 27 Sept, 16:15 CCA Cinema
with Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival 15 Oct, 19:00 Flourish House. Free
with Africa in Motion Film Festival 25 Oct, 17:30 Centre of Contemporary Art
Sridhar Rangayan 2015 / 82 mins / India
Mark Aitken 2015 / 72 mins / Mexico-UK-USA
Francois Verster 2014 / 107 mins / South Africa, Egypt, France, Netherlands, Jordan
Filmmaker and gay activist Sridhar Rangayan embarks on a personal journey to expose the human rights violations faced by the LGBTQ community in India due to a draconian law Section 377 and homophobic social mores of a patriarchal society. The gritty documentary BREAKING FREE, shot over 7 years, features searing testimonies of gay and transgender persons who have been victimized or exploited, as well as wide-ranging interviews with advocates and activists across India. See-sawing between despair and joy, anguish and hope, the film is an emotional roller-coaster journey of the Indian LGBTQ movement from invisibility to empowerment.
Compassion, empathy and redemption are central to this life-affirming documentary, set in Juárez, the world’s most violent city. After coming close to death in the Mexican desert, Josué was rescued and placed in a mental asylum run by its own patients. Six years later, while making this film, he gets an unexpected opportunity to become reunited with his estranged daughter and repair his shattered past. Flourish House, 23-25 Ashley St, Glasgow G3 6DR Booking: 0141 333 0099 / www.flourishhouse.org.uk
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COMMUNITY VIDEOTHEQUES In the past we’ve had video library at the festival. This year we’ve decided to spread the love around the city. A handful of titles from this year’s programme and older films will be available around the city at community hub venues. Document is making human rights issues accessible for all!
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MAIN LOCATION
Glasgow Womens Library A Quiet Inquisition (80 mins) Mulheres (24 mins) Honey on Wounds (30 mins) Govanhill Baths Euromaidan Roughcut (60 mins) Jikoo A Wish (52 mins) Lights Out (10 mins) Elder Park Library Line in the Sand (79 mins) Fading Valley (54 mins)
TICKETS CCA Box office online or in person PRICES • £4 single screening general admission • £3 concession single screening. • £12 Day Pass general admission/£9 Day Pass concession • Refugees and Asylum Seekers and OAPs are free
CCA - CEnTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS 350 SAUCHIEHALL ST GLAsGOW G2 3JD
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SCHEDULE THURSDAY 15
SATURDAY 17
SANDAY 18
Events that will be running throughout the weekend in the space:
Location: Gilmorehill Centre, Glasgow University
Location: CCA Cinema
Location: CCA Cinema
⁄ PW projections
12:00 - 13:45 Crofting: Mulheres/Jikoo: A Wish
12:30 - 13:30 The Fading Valley
⁄ Radical Independent Bookfair
14:00 - 15:00 Outsiders: NANA and Shadow Fights
13:45 - 14:45 Superior Orders
15:15 - 16:15 Home: Cartographers, JUS SOLI and Lights Out Glasgow
15:00 - 6:00 This is Exile
17:15 - 18:15 SCREENS Seminar: Steve Presence FRIDAY 16
⁄ Various organisations with stalls around the CCA Pre-festival events:
Location: CCA Cinema 12:00 - 13:30 Student Forum Screening: The Fourth Estate 14:00 - 15:30 Student Forum Screening: Those Who Said No
16:30 - 18:00 Line in the Sand Location: CCA Theatre
16:15 - 18:00 SQIFF: Portrait of Jason 18:15:00 - 19:30 The Ground Beneath their Feet
Location: CCA Clubroom
12:30 - 14:30 Agora
13:30 - 15:00 Student Forum: The Fourth Estate Workshop
14:45 - 16:00 Bring the Sun Home
12:30 - 14:15 Balkans Double Bill: Honey on Wounds/ Goodnight Sarajevo
15:30 -17:00 Student Forum: Those Who Said No
16:00 - 17:15 SMHAFF: 9999
14:30 - 16:00 AiM: God is Not Working on Sunday
Location: CCA Theatre
17:45 - 19:45 Desparacidos
16:15:00 - 18:15 Camcorder guerrillas: Retrospective
20:00 - 21:45 Opening Film: A Quiet Inquisition
20:00 - 21:30 Euromaiden Roughtcut
Location: Saramago Cafe Bar
Location: CCA Theatre
20:00 - 22:00 Closing Film: Toto and His Sisters
Location: CCA Clubroom 19:00 - 20:00 Document Launch Reception 21:45 - 01:00 DJ Set and Projections in CCA Courtyard
Location: CCA Clubroom 16:30 - 17:30 Enable Workshop Location: The Project Cafe, 134 Renfrew Street, G3 6ST 20:30 - 22:30 Love Music Hate Racism at Project Cafe
13:30 - 15:00 Life Mosaic: Land Grabs, Land Rights and Indigenous Peoples 15:00 - 18:00 DD: Subtitling Workshop
⁄ SMHAFF co-screening at Flourish House @ 7pm, Thursday October 15 at Flourish House ⁄ Community Videotheques around Glasgow @ GWL, Govanhill Baths, Elder Park in Govan (week leading up to the festival)
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FESTIVAL TEAM
INTERNATIONAL JURY PANEL
COLLABORATORS
SPECIAL THANKS TO
Cayley James
Raisah Ahmed
Campaign to Welcome Refugees
Document Board:
Festival Co-ordinator
Screen Writer, Director and
Love Music/Hate Racism
David Archibald, Beth Pearson,
Film Educator
Enable Scotland
Maria Selez-Verna, Nick
GramNet
McKerrell, Mark Langdon
Eileen Daily Co-ordinator at Large
Billy Briggs
Camcorder Guerillas
Journalist
Digital Desperados
Chris Bowman
Radical Film Network
Mona Rai
Eleanor Capaldi Press Officer
Emma Davie
Radical Independent Book fair Paula Larkin
Documentary filmmaker and
LifeMosaic
The CCA
Cat Robertson
Programme director, MA/MFA
Abortion Rights Scotland
Anderston Torp
Volunteer Co-ordinator
Film, Edinburgh College of Art.
The Project Cafe
Hugo Rente
GWL
Antonino Riesi
Sanne Jehoul
Steve Presence
Govanhill Baths Community Trust Kate Cotter
Event Assistant
Research Associate, Centre
Elderpark Library
Dr. Myrto Tsakatika
for Moving Image Research,
SQIFF
Neil Davidson
University of the West of
SMHAFF
Cheryl McIntyre and Scottish
England
AiM
Young Crofters
Screen Seminars
Mo Hume
Angela Ross
PW
Freedom From Torture
Development officer -
Once Were Farmers
Tommy Breslin
SELECTION PANEL Sam Kenyon Sean Welsh Eileen Daily Cayley James
Plantation Productions
Sean Cumming Rory Clarke Matthew Waites
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