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Birds Eye View Film Festival 8-14th March 2007

FILMS FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

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One of our new strands for 2007 is a partnership with ActionAid, featuring fascinating works from women filmmakers from the developing world. This is a creatively innovative and exciting range of films, ranging from breathtaking animation through musical-dance film and drama to hard-hitting documentary, dealing with subjects as diverse as gum-tattooing in Senegal, the cost of democracy in poverty-striken India, and the dramatic re-telling of the experience of a woman journalist on the frontline of the Iran-Iraq war.

	ACTIONAID SHORT FILMS [Various, 60'] + directors Q&A tbc Friday 9th March ICA CINEMA 1: 6.30PM Diverse range of extraordinary films by women from developing countries – from hard-hitting animation to engaging drama… For more information, click here
	ACTIONAID FILM: Filmaker Focus: Tsitsi Dangarembga Mother's Day [ Tsitsi Dangarembga, Zimbabwe, 30'] + clips from other films Plus director Q&A tbc Saturday 10th March ICA CINEMA 2: 2.00PM Award winning musical re-telling of a Shona folk tale from acclaimed Zimbabwean author and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga. For more information, click here
	ACTIONAID DOC: House of Smoke [Camila Villate, Myriam Ortega,Luz Adriana Duque, Colombia, 52'] Saturday 10th March ICA CINEMA 2: 6.30PM Documentary on the charcoal-making families in the slums of Colombia. For more information, click here
	ACTIONAID FILM: Goodbye Life [Ensieh Shah Hosseini, Iran] Sunday 11th March ICA CINEMA 2: 4.00PM Story of a female war correspondent in the Iran-Iraq conflict - based on the director’s own experiences. For more information, click here
	ACTIONAID DOC: Six Yards to Democracy [Nishtha Jain and Smriti Nevatia, India, 55'] Plus directors Q&A tbc Tuesday 13th March ICA CINEMA 1: 6.30PM When a politician distributes free saris, hoping to secure women's votes, disaster ensues and a gruesome stampede causes the deaths of 22 women. This beautifully short documentary explores the cost of democracy. For more information, click here

ActionAid. Empower Women. End Poverty.

To mark International Women's Day, 8 March 2007, ActionAid will highlight global abuses of women's rights. Women around the world are more likely to live in poverty than men. Women have less money, less protection from violence, less education and less power, simply because they are women. But, women also drive change. Supporting women to realise their rights is essential in the fight against poverty.

ActionAid supports projects around the world to empower women and girls to recognise and claim their rights.  Throughout March, as well as highlighting the struggles that women face, ActionAid will also be celebrating the contribution that women make to creating a fairer and more just world.  

ActionAid is delighted to work with Birds Eye View on this innovative series of films made by women from the developing world.

www.actionaid.org.uk