The brand new One World Media Festival launches
this morning and will take place on the 8th & 9th of
November. The festival is in association with the successful Open City Docs Festival and will host two
days of guest speakers and comedians looking at human rights, international
development and aid. There will also be
keynote speeches, industry panels and film screenings including:
Wadjda – the first ever feature film by a Saudi Arabian woman (Haifa
al-Mansour), which has been submitted to the Oscars this year.
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Slum – a 2003 film created by
Nairobi slum teenagers in and around the Kenyan capital.
Mare
Chiuso (Closed Sea) – a 2012 film about Libyan refugees
trying to get to Italy filmed on their mobile phones by the travellers in the
boat.
The event takes place
at University College London and is free as long as tickets are booked online
in advance. They are available here from today (Thursday
10th October)
For more on the Open City Docs Festival check here
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