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Document 5 Announces Programme

To mark Document’s fifth birthday, the festival is celebrating how far it has come since 2001.

Taking place in Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts from 17 - 21 October 2007, this year’s festival will open on the evening of the 17 October with a reception, including food and drink made using organic produce from allotments around Glasgow courtesy of Brothmix, and our launch film The Mother’s House - an astonishingly intimate, emotionally overwhelming and sometimes shocking story of three generations of women in post-apartheid South Africa – at 8pm.

Document 5 will present a programme of around 70 short and feature length films, including 40 UK Premieres and 15 world premieres, exploring local, national and international human rights issues. This year’s programme features thought-provoking, beautiful and powerful work ranging from cinematic explorations of the human condition to politically charged frontline reportage, aiming to promote a deeper understanding of international human rights

Highlights this year include The Italian Doctor, which chronicles the story of Alberto Cairo, an Italian doctor with an exceptional mission – giving new life to the mine victims of Afghanistan and I for India, a chronicle of immigration in sixties Britain and beyond seen through the eyes of one Asian family and their movie camera and much, much more.

Document will also present, in conjunction with award winning Glasgow-based production company, Autonomi, a one-to-one with Paul Watson, who has often been called the ‘father’ of reality TV, thanks to groundbreaking work such as, The Family, fly-on-the-wall series such as Sylvania Waters and more recently the controversial Malcolm and Barbara. Paul will lead a discussion on how to survive as an ethically-driven, stylistically-experimental documentary filmmaker in the modern media.

Autonomi will also facilitate a discussion of Ethics in the Media, using their controversial film about Glasgow gang culture As it is – described as a “horror movie”, by the Evening Times – as a case study. The filmmakers will explore and facilitate a discussion of issues around ethics in news-gathering and documentary filmmaking.

In association with Street Level, Photoworks, Gallery in Glasgow there is a rare opportunity to see the Black Audio Film Collective’s legendary and seminal work Handsworth Songs which takes as its starting point the riots in Birmingham in 1985, introduced by Director John Akomfrah.

The full programme will be available online at www.docfilmfest.org.uk from early October.

Tickets available from the CCA box office:
Day Passes: £10/£5
4 day Festival Passes: £30/£15
Single Screenings: £4/£2
Asylum Seekers/Refugees: Free

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