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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana">Press Release</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><b></b><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana"><b>Document 7 Programme Announced</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><b></b><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana"><b>Document International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival </b>is proud to announce a dynamic programme of events and screenings for Document 7- CCA & GFT, Glasgow, 21st - 25th Oct 09.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><b></b><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana"><b>Document </b>is the UK's only dedicated human rights documentary festival, one of just 18 worldwide. This year, with a record number of submissions and a programme of premieres and award-winning documentaries, Document affirms its reputation as one of the most unique<b> </b>and anticipated events on the Scottish calendar.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><b></b><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana"><b>Document 7 </b>will screen over 60 outstanding national and international documentaries that look at human rights in its broadest sense, as personal stories with a global punch. Audiences can expect to find films that are both accessible and thought provoking, engaging and challenging, then debate them with invited speakers.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><b></b><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana"><b>Document 7</b> will show films which cover ground often ignored or overlooked by the mainstream media - films that show how real people are affected by the great events of our age on their own turf, and how they deal with that - films in which people refuse to be defined simply as victims of circumstance.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><b></b><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana"><b>Document 7</b> Highlights this year include<b> </b>the festival's opening film<b>-</b> <b>Umoja: The Village Where Men Are Forbidden</b>, tells the story of a group of women who form their own community in rural Northern Kenya. Sexually abused by British soldiers, and rejected by their husbands<b>,</b> they founded Umoja<b> </b>in 1990<b>-</b> a thriving village where children of both sexes are treated equally, and from where the women go to neighbouring villages to raise awareness of gender equality, HIV/AIDS and circumcision issues; their only problem now is that they must defend themselves against the men<b>,</b> (comma) who envy their success in making a new life on their own terms. French Directors<b> </b>Jean-Marc Sainclair and Jean Crousillal will be at the screening to introduce the film<b> </b>and lead a Q & A afterwards<b>,</b> and will be available for interview.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><b></b><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana"><b>Goodbye, How Are You?</b> proves the lie that human rights film has to be solemn or worthy, as Boris Mitic' tongue-in-cheek road movie slowly builds up a picture of the former Jugoslavia, its people and its culture, through a 'satirical-vérité narration' and over 400 unique 'satirical documentary shots' filmed on a three-year, 50.000 km trip along Balkan side roads.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><b></b><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana"><b>China's Wild West</b> shows that beautiful images can also have a moral purpose in a cinematically striking film which follows a day in the life of a Muslim Uighur community in their hopeful efforts to discover Jade in the harsh conditions of a dried-up river bed near a remote town on the old Silk Road in Western China.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><b></b><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana"><b>Durakovo: Village of Fools </b>examines a “utopian” community 100 km southwest of Moscow owned by Mikhail Morozov- Russian patriot, good Christian and successful businessman. People come there from all over Russia to learn how to become “true Russians” by abandoning all their former rights and obeying Morozov's strict rules. Purposefully restrained, yet cunningly subversive, <b>Durakovo: Village Of Fools</b> provides a chilling glimpse of fascist ideology on the rise.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana"><b>Still Black: A Portrait of Black Transmen </b>is a groundbreaking work</font><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#ff0000" style="font: 10.0px Verdana; color: #ff0000"><b> </b></font><font face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana">which helps illuminate the debate surrounding the role of race in transitional experience. Kortney Ryan Ziegler, African American filmmaker from California, film student of Spike Lee, will present a <b>Glasgow School of Art Friday Event </b>and screen <b>Still Black </b>at the GFT on Sunday 25th October 2pm - 4pm. Zeigler will also available for interview.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana">To run in tandem with a series of discussions surrounding the current situation for UK asylum seekers, we will be screening a number of short films from the <b>The Estate </b>series. Directed by Ruth Carslaw, these films uncover the lives of individuals living on the Sighthill council estate in Glasgow in the year leading up to its demolition. The 7 selections included are specifically focused on the lives of refugees, which build into a compelling portrait of asylum in contemporary Scotland.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana">Document 7 will also host a programme of LGBT themed screenings and discussions to coincide with <b>Glasgay</b>. This will include a roundtable discussion with LGBT Youth Scotland & Our Story Scotland and the screening of <b>Living Queer African </b>and <b>Le(s)banese, </b>an eye-opening documentary that reveals the truth about life for young Lesbians in the Lebanon. Intimate stories are interspersed with humorous anecdotes that reveal the tension between religion and identity in the Arab-speaking world, whilst also positioning Lebanon as a seat of liberal acceptance in the region. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana">Other strands include a full programme of films concerning women's experience with dedicated screenings and discussions, as well as a forum dedicated to <b>Poverty, Advocacy & Action. </b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana">Exhibitions of work by photographers Martin Coyne and Martina Salvi will run concurrently in the CCA Bar, contrasting the lives of child workers in India with those of adults in the factories of contemporary China. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana">If that wasn't enough, at the end of the night surprise musical guests will entertain us in the café bar…</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana">By providing a platform for a broad range of ideas, individuals, and discussions, <b>Document 7 </b>will sustain the principle of lively and open debate which has characterised the festival from the start. In an increasingly interconnected global milieu, <b>Document </b>remains a vital forum for information exchange, and for the celebration of shared human values across all contrived or imposed boundaries.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana">The full programme is available from October at: </font><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#0000ff" style="font: 10.0px Verdana; color: #0000ff"><u>www.docfilmfest.org.uk</u></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana"><b>Press Screening: 11.00am - 12.30am, Tues 6th Oct 09, CCA, Glasgow.</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana"><b>Press Enquiries: Paula Larkin, </b></font><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#0000ff" style="font: 10.0px Verdana; color: #0000ff"><u><b><a href="mailto:docfestinfo@gmail.com">docfestinfo@gmail.com</a></b></u></font><font face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana"><b> 07765 396226</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><u><b></b></u><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana"><u><b>Tickets</b></u></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><b></b><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana"><b>Ticket Prices:</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana">Day Passes<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Waged £15<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Unwaged £10</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana">4 Day Festival Passes<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Waged £35<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Unwaged £20</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana">Single Screenings<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Waged £4<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Unwaged £2</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana"><i>All programmes are free to asylum seekers/refugees</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><b></b><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana"><b>Box Office:</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana">CCA films & Festival Passes<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>CCA <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>0141 352 4900<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>www.cca-glasgow.com</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana">GFT<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> films<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>GFT <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>0141 332 6535<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#0000ff" style="font: 10.0px Verdana; color: #0000ff"><u>www.gft.org.uk</u></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); min-height: 12px; "><u></u><br></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>Paula Larkin</div><div>Coordinator / Development Worker</div><div>Document Festival</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>tel: 00 44 141 357 4212</div><div>m: 07765396226</div><div>www.docfilmfest.org.uk</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><div>Document 7- International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival</div><div>21st-25th Oct 09, Glasgow.</div></div></span></span></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>