"100 Girls in 100 Days" project

Submitted by Wendy Dent - Editor on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 11:49

A new African citizen journalism project has launched the first doc of it's series "Change Makers: 100 GIrls in 100 Days".

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Life follows art... Cuban escape follows Tribeca premiere

Submitted by Wendy Dent - Editor on Mon, 04/23/2012 - 13:25

Two young Cuban stars of Una Noche, of a short film about young cubans trying to find a way to escape Cuba, failed to turn up to last Friday's Tribeca Film Festival premiere of their film in New York, and are presumed to have instead disappeared in Miami - to escape Cuba.

"Only Dariel Arrechada attended the Tribeca Film Festival premiere screening of Una Noche on Thursday, April 19,” a statement from the film festival said. “We have not had any contact with Anailín de la Rua de la Torre or with Javier Núñez Florian.”

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Film festival to promote reconciliation between Armenia and Azerbaijan cancelled due to riots and threats

Submitted by Wendy Dent - Editor on Sun, 04/22/2012 - 13:13

Human rights films are provocative. So too are film festivals, evidently. Riots, threats and incitement of violence have forced the cancellation of a film festival in Armenia showing Azerbaijan films, and now the protestors are targeting human rights organisations in the area too with 200 people throwing eggs and stones at the Helsinki Citizen's Assembly office in Vanadzo.r Global Voices reports "The [Film Festival] organizers also allege that local authorities canceled classes for students so they could attend.

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Human rights and the Bahrain F1 grand prix

Submitted by Wendy Dent - Editor on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 23:00

Don't let the F1 Grand Prix silence human rights abuses in Bahrain. Reporters Without Borders creates a winning campaign to show the two faces of Bahrain, and a petition you can sign too;
http://bit.ly/HFG7YZ

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Khmer Rouge Trial video

Submitted by Wendy Dent - Editor on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 15:12

History in the making. Live footage of the Khmer Rouge Trial, happening in Cambodia right now:

http://www.eccc.gov.kh/en/articles/live-video-stream-testimony-kaing-gue...

Stanford University - Special screening of No News From Harare

Submitted by Wendy Dent - Editor on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 02:22

Feedback from Berkeley University's guest talk and film screening of 'No News From Harare' was that the post-film discussion was "Inspiring" . Next the doc will be showing next Wednesday at Stanford University, from 7 - 9pm, in a special screening/ guest talk presented by the Stanford University Program on Human Rights and the Center for African Studies, with dinner served. All welcome.

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Berkeley University to host guest lecture and special screening of No News From Harare

Submitted by Wendy Dent - Editor on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 16:32

SPECIAL SCREENING with Director WENDY DENT as guest speaker

Friday February 3, at University of California Berkeley

A cutting edge account of Mugabe's Zimbabwe: Political persecution in the guise of democracy

"It was cruel. Extremely cruel".

One year on from the land evictions that left over 700,000 locals homeless, there is no news from Harare. The international media has been silenced and the opposition parties infiltrated and divided.

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Start the new year with a laugh: A Syrian puppet dictator spoof takes on the world

Submitted by Wendy Dent - Editor on Sat, 01/07/2012 - 14:07

A short Syrian film of a puppet show has gone viral - and spoofs President Bashar Al-Assad as a diminutive puppet in classic 'Punch and Judy' style. 'Beeshou' (a diminutive word for 'Bashar') won the Cairo Human Rights Film Festival and has evolved into a series 'Top Goon - Diaries of a Dictator'. The Syrian filmmakers remain anonymous.
“A Syrian filmmaker critiquing brutal repression dares not show his face - so he instead uses his hands", states the description from the Cairo Film Festival.

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Sad end of year stats for Reporters in 2011

Submitted by Wendy Dent - Editor on Tue, 12/27/2011 - 23:47

Reporters without Borders has released its annual figures, and sadly the numbers of journalists killed rose 16% from last year, to 66 deaths in 2011. Of these 20 were killed in the Middle East, with the Arab Spring taking its toll. There was, just as alarmingly, a 43% increase in physical attacks and a 31% increase in arrests of netizens. Other figures, for those journalists not faint of heart, are;

1,044 journalists arrested
1,959 journalists physically attacked or threatened
499 media censored
71 journalists kidnapped
73 journalists fled their country
5 netizens killed

It's like Christmas all over again... The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation opens applications

Submitted by Wendy Dent - Editor on Mon, 12/26/2011 - 13:55

... and yes, individuals and human rights organisations are invited to apply!

Here's their formal press release. Those with more creativity are obviously needed, to add a bit of punch to their benevolence as well!

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