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Второй Фестиваль документальных фильмов в Лестере

Пройдет с 20 по 22 января 2012 года.

Программа фестиваля:

Friday 20th

6.15 Tabloid
8.15 Girl Model - Preview

Saturday 21st

12.30 High Hopes
2.15 A Small Act
4.15 Vanishing of the Bees
6.15 The Prison Where I Live
8.15 Enemies of the People

Sunday 22nd

2.15 Countdown to Zero
4.15 Blood in the Mobile
6.15 Mugabe and the White African
8.15 Interrupters

The following Dogwoof films will be in Screen 3 and the Social DocCube as part of presentations with Q & A sessions on Saturday 21st & Sunday 22nd:

Budrus
Page One
Burma VJ
Restrepo
The Green Wave
The Shock Doctrine

Saturday 21st January:
11am – 1pm The Journals Project for 11-21 year olds & Wave Club - documentary making & viewing

1-1.30pm Showcase 1
1.30-2.30pm London 2012 Games & social media documentary – by Jennifer Jones

2.30-3pm Showcase 2
3-4.30pm Sally Hossack, local filmmaker has created a ‘Busking Tour of Leicester’ (45 mins)

4.30-5pm Showcase 3
5-6pm Citizens Journalism & its role in the future landscape of the media

6-7pm Showcase 4
7pm Screening of docfilm ‘Page One’ (88 Mins)
Sunday 22nd January:
12-1pm Ben (49 mins) – Paralympics 2012 – thanks to Dan Mitchinson of Inspire Leicestershire for arranging this screening

1-1.30pm Showcase 5
1.30-3pm Screening of docfilm ‘Budrus’ (78 Mins) with introduction by Gulzar / followed by Q&A

3-3.30pm Showcase  6
3.30-4.30pm Screening of ‘Return To Gaza’ feature documentary by Dane Vincent Smith

4.30-5pm Showcase 7
5-6.30pm Screening of docfilm ‘The Green Wave’ (80 Mins)
6.30-7pm Third University slot including Occupy 101 session. 
Screening of short docfilm made over 3 days of festival.
7.15pm Screening of docfilm ‘The Shock Doctrine’ (79 mins)

Saturday 21st

1. Mistreated Minds (duration 09:08)
MISTREATED MINDS is a documentary about the often overwhelming stigma facing those who struggle with mental health conditions.

Director: Brian Cohem

2. Perserverance (duration 06:32)
Film maker Tom Poederbach and reporter Thomas Rijsman follow the Dutch National Wheelchair Basketball team during their preparations for the European championships which will took place in September 2011 in Israel.

Director: Tom Poederbach

3. Mothers Recovery (duration 12:41)
Mothers Recovery tells the story of mothers who abused drugs and alcohol while pregnant, and found help through the POEG program to become clean and sober.

Director: Robin Smith

4. Jacobs Story (duration 13:52)
Jacob’s Story is a mini-documentary about a man that once made his living by trafficking women & children for the purposes of commercial sex.

Director: Unearthed

5. Where We Live (duration 09:46)
Where we Live eloquently portrays the crucial role played by grassroots organizers in mobilizing the vote to defend California’s historic global warming legislation, linking their work to similar efforts around the world.

Director: FNTG

6. The Raid on Zuccuotti Park (duration 03:32)
“My office isn’t far from Zuccotti Park and when I heard it was being cleared I went down with my camera. I ended up filming for 18 hours until the Park was reopened at 6pm on November 15, 2011. The police presence was overwhelming, more than I’ve ever seen - more than during the blackout, more than the days after September 11th.”

7. The Life of Maurice Levesque
We spend too much time thinking and complaining about what we don’t have, Mad dog Morris is in a battle for his life at the hospital – and shows us to be thankful for what we do have.

Director: The Dream Dealer

8. UNICEF Presents Pote Kole (duration 12:01)
“Youth in action for Haiti”

Director: Charles Gay

9. Phonehenge West (duration 19:26)
Alan Kimble “Kim” Fahey has spent more than twenty years working, mostly single-handedly, to turn his Acton, California property into the wonderland of habitable sculpture he has named “Phonehenge West.” Now the County of Los Angeles has declared its intent to condemn not only his work, but the man himself to a jail term longer than those handed out for some violent crimes against actual victims.

Director: Devin Schiro

10. Paper (duration 07:53)
During its war with the Tamil Tigers, the Sri Lankan government restricted fuel, medicines and food items reaching the north and east of Sri Lanka. Even newsprint essential for printing newspapers came under the bans. The embargoes reached their peak during the 1990s. Jaffna’s newspapermen had to overcome scarcity to publish news of bombs and deaths.

Director: Kannan Arunasalam

11. Photography John Moore on Epic Libya Battles (duration 05:42)
Photographer John Moore is no stranger to combat. As a member of an Associated Press team in 2005, he shared a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for coverage of the war in Iraq and he’s done extended stints in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, South Africa, Mexico and Nicaragua and elsewhere in the last 20 years. Yet despite his relative comfort with being on the frontlines, Moore told the NewsHour from his hotel room in Cairo that his latest assignment -a six-week trip that took him to the uprisings in Egypt, Bahrain and Libya - might have been his most dangerous.

12. This Is Rubbish (duration 06:39)
Campaign doc on UK food waste action group ‘This Is Rubbish’. 5,000 people were fed a free 3 course lunch in Trafalgar Square on 16th December. I covered the journey of that food from collection to digestion. All food above was recovered from the ‘waste’ department of a major UK food supplier.

13. Lulu’s Rescue (duration 12:57)
14,000 dogs die a day at our animal control facilities. This is a short documentary that exhibits the challenges facing dogs and the people that support them. It also focuses on the great work of Lulu’s Rescue (lulusrescue.com/) who rescue dogs from North/South Carolina up to Pennsylvania, and follows their efforts to go beyond just rescue & create an all-important spay/neuter initiative.

Director: Brannon Shiflett

14. Marison Valles: Facing the Cartels (duration 07:18)
An insight into the ongoing drugs war in Mexico.

Director: Glen Milner

15. Inside Out (duration 04:48)
INSIDE OUT is a large-scale participatory art project that transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work. Upload a portrait. Receive a poster. Paste it for the world to see.

Click here for more doc films from the Socially Minded Documentaries channel on Vimeo. Thanks to George Horne of Proof Studio the Leicester based independent creative agency.

http://vimeo.com/channels/40086

Sunday 22nd

12-1.30pm Screening of docfilm ‘Burma VJ’(84 mins)

1.30-2pm Showcase 6
2-4pm Showcase in partnership with 15th British Silent Film Festival. Organised by Laraine Porter DMU.
4-6pm Showcase 8
6-8pm Screening of docfilm ‘Restrepo’ (93 Mins)

(Источник: docfilmfestival.blogspot.com)