York Human Rights Film Festival

YORK HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL

Saturday 22nd June – Sunday 23rd June, 2013

The York Human Rights Film Festival is an exciting two day film event that will be held in a variety of venues across the city on the 22nd and 23rd June, 2013. From films made by international documentary experts to those made by students from local schools, the festival will explore a range of human rights themes relevant to us all. Whether you want to spend an evening watching a full length film in the fantastic new crypt at the... Minster, or catch a short film with a drink in Evil Eye, there is something for everyone – and what’s more, every event is entirely free!


Schedule of events:

SATURDAY, 22ND JUNE

Evil Eye, 42 Stonegate
12pm – 4pm (Drop-in)

Projected onto the wall throughout the day, drop in to Evil Eye to catch the following three short films from the Why Poverty? film series:

Lullaby - Germany: do the poor sleep well?
The Barrel - Venezuela: sink or swim?
Colours in the Dust - Haiti: can a boy paint his way out of poverty?


Yorkshire Museum, Museum Gardens
6pm – 7.30pm
(Doors open 5.30pm)

Park Avenue

‘740 Park Avenue - an exclusive apartment building in Manhattan - is currently home to more billionaires than any other building in the United States. Less than five miles to the north is another Park Avenue in the South Bronx, where almost 40 per cent live in poverty and life prospects are less promising for those stuck at the bottom of the American pile. As international attention focuses on the US elections, Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney looks at inequality in the US through the prism of these two, near-adjacent places, to ask if America is still the land of opportunity. Through archive and interviews with academics, political scientists, psychologists, former lobbyists and even a former doorman at 740 Park, Gibney's film is a polemical look at the socio-economic political landscape of contemporary USA.’ (BBC Four)

Student films: ISSP
Through the Independent State School Partnership, students from ten different local schools around York came together to create their own short films about poverty. The five films explore various perspectives on poverty, considering issues such as education, homelessness and world hunger.


York Minster
7.30pm – 9pm
(Doors open 7pm)

Solar Mamas

‘Solar Mamas follows the remarkable story of Rafea, a mother-of-four from Jordan who challenges the status quo of her traditional marriage by travelling to India to train as a solar engineer for six months. Along with 27 other mothers and grandmothers from poor communities around the world - many of whom are illiterate - she will learn the skills needed to bring electricity and light back to her village.
Addressing themes of education, gender equality, environmental sustainability and development, the documentary takes an inspiring and compelling look at poverty - and the ways women around the world are working to pull themselves out of the poverty trap.’ (BBC Four)

Student films: ISSP

Through the Independent State School Partnership, students from ten different local schools around York came together to create their own short films about poverty. The five films explore various perspectives on poverty, considering issues such as education, homelessness and world hunger.

This event will be ticketed but free, due to limited capacity – tickets will be distributed on the door, on a first come first serve basis.


SUNDAY 23RD JUNE:

White Stuff, 34 Stonegate
12pm – 4pm (Drop-in)

Drop into the upstairs cinema screen in White Stuff, any time between 12pm – 4pm, to watch three short films from the Why Poverty? film series:

The Thread - Uruguay: can microfinance fix a 15th birthday?
Finding Josephine - Uganda: who benefits from charity?
Wilbur Goes Poor - India: is this poverty?

Refreshments will be provided!


Orillo Productions, Apollo Street 3
6pm – 8pm

I am Nasrine (with Q&A)

Made through a community arts project, I am Nasrine is a BAFTA nominated film about refugees in the UK. The film will be followed with a Q&A session.
‘I Am Nasrine follows the paths of Nasrine and Ali, sister and brother in a comfortable, middle-class Iranian home. When Nasrine has a run-in with the police, the punishment is more than she bargained for: their father orders them both to relocate to the UK. Arriving in Britain, their fate and their future are far from certain. As Nasrine finds the courage to accept her fate, she discovers that the end of her journey is really just the beginning.’ (iamnasrine.com)

This event will be ticketed but free, due to limited capacity – tickets will be distributed on the door, on a first come first serve basis.

_{York Human Rights Film Festival is taking place in collaboration with York Human Rights City Project and Refugee Week.}