Filmmaking for Social Change
1st May 2010
Venue: British Museum
For the second year running, LIDF has developed and led documentary filmmaking workshops in Karachi, Pakistan. Thirty students from Karachi and Lahore were trained in documentary history, theory and shown a selection of LIDF’s best documentaries from the past 3 years, before embarking on the production of their own.
The result is 11 short films all dealing with issues relating to the effects of terrorism in Pakistan today. These films will be premiered at the British Museum in London, and students will be present to participate in post-film discussions.
Stevenson Theatre:
Filmmaking for Social Change, Pakistan – Part 1 (12.00 – 13.30)
6 Short Films (50min)
+ Panel:
Athar Hussain Director of the Asia Research Centre, LSE
Anwar Akhtar, Director of The Samosa, a digital media, culture, arts and politics project, focusing on Britain and South Asia
Patrick Hazard, Director LIDF / Filmmaking for Social Change
Ali Sheikh & Sehar Palijo, student filmmakers
Filmmaking for Social Change, Pakistan – Part 2 (13.45 – 15.25)
7 Short Films (60min)
+ Panel:
Faissal Hameed, Lecturer in Islam and Politics, Birkbeck
Maha Hosain Aziz, Senior Teaching Fellow in South Asian Politics, SOAS / Asia Insight Columnist, Business Week
Patrick Hazard, Director LIDF / Filmmaking for Social Change
Alizeb Raees, Summaiya Hafeez & Kiran Ahmed, student filmmakers
Sackler Room:
16.00 – 16.45 Informal discussion with Pakistani filmmakers and young London filmmakers from the Hidden Herstories project.
17.00 – 18.00 Round table discussion: Film and Social Change
This debate is built around the conviction that film can be powerful tool in social change. It can create awareness, encourage participation, and jump-start or accelerate processes aimed at creating community leadership and action.
Representatives of NGOs and filmmakers talk about their experiences in the field and discuss how best they can engage with, and make use of, traditional broadcast media and new digital social media.
With Clodagh Miskelly (Panos), Godwyns Onwuchekwa (AHPN), Heather Blake (Reporters Without Borders), Tom Porteos (Human Rights Watch), Asma Shah (filmmaker, Clore Leadership Programme) Sally Copley (Save the Children) Sukant Chandan (Octavia Foundation)
Chair: Patrick Hazard, LIDF
