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Cinema, Human Rights & Advocacy SUMMER SCHOOL, July 6-13 2012

Following the success of 2010 and 2011, The Huston School of Digital Media, NUI Galway, together with the Irish Centre for Human Rights, will host the third annual Summer School in Cinema, Human Rights and Advocacy in Galway this July. The summer school is organised by the same team behind the well known Venice Summer School in Cinema and Human Rights, which ran from 2005-2008.  

The summer school will take place from 6th to 13th July 2012 and it offers an exciting programme of workshops, seminars and film screenings with established film-makers and academics. The programme director is Nick Danziger, a leading practitioner in the field of human rights documentary making, and he will act as the senior facilitator of  discussions during the summer school.

Other facilitators will include William Schabas (Professor of International Law at Middlesex University in London and of Human Rights Law at the Irish Centre for Human Rights), Rod Stoneman (Director of the Huston School of Film & Digital Media), Christopher Hird (a central figure in independent documentary making in the UK), Keon de Feyter (Professor of International Law at the University of Antwerp in Belgium), Emma Sandon (who teaches Film and Television Studies at Birkbeck College in London), and Sam Gregory (Program Director of Witness, an international human rights organization that raises awareness of human rights violations through the use of video and online technologies).

Elements of the summer school will include information on the fundamentals of human rights, how to raise awareness of human rights on camera, the development of ideas and how these ideas should be pitched.

This year the Summer School coincides with the 24th Galway Film Fleadh in order to give participants the chance to assist festival screenings which form a basis for critical discussion.

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Aims and Objectives

The School aims to widen the horizons of professionals in the film, documentary, NGO and media sector to reflect on the use of film and video advocacy as an instrument for enhancing human rights awareness on critical social, political and environmental issues, and to influence change.

In particular, the school aims to provide participants with a framework of understanding what are human rights, how they can be transposed into film, the impact of human rights films and video advocacy on the promotion of human rights and ultimately lead to social change.

The school's aims include:

- Raising Awareness on sensitive human rights issues analysed through the camera lens.

- Networking: bringing participants and professional practitioners together from all over the world.

- Informing: professionals from both the human rights sector and the cinema industry through modules and workshops;

- Pitching: participants learn how to develop their ideas into projects and how to pitch them.

Programme Description

The Programme consists of five teaching modules and several workshops and film screenings that combine human rights expertise and cinema studies. Teaching modules develop issues relating to: the universal declaration of human rights, a history of human rights cinema, freedom of expression and censorship, the use of video in human rights advocacy, producing social documentaries, a case study of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. Each module is illustrated by screenings of documentaries or fiction films.

Participants have the chance to watch human rights related films in the selection of the 23rd Galway Film Fleadh. Whenever possible, filmmakers, jury members and critics from the cinema world present to the Film Festival are invited to participate in discussions with the summer school participants.

During the school participants will develop an individual essay or project by which the participants elaborate a theme of their choice related to the programme.

Depending on the programme schedule, the participants will also have the opportunity to screen their work.

 

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