The first ever West Midlands Human Rights Film Festival will begin next month.
West Midlands Human Rights Film Festival 2011
Promoted by the Birmingham International Film Society, the festival begins on 6th September and runs through until 4th October. “There are so many films coming out at the moment that raise a variety of human rights issues, we thought the best way to present them would be in a Festival,” said film programmer Max Simpson, one of the four local film enthusiasts who founded BIFS in 2008.
The festival will be launched on Tuesday 6th September at 6.30pm at the Birmingham Library Theatre, with a reception and opening address from special guest speaker Simon Davies, Director of Privacy International. The reception will be followed by an exclusive preview screening of the acclaimed Iranian film The Green Wave (12A) at 7.30pm at the Birmingham Library Theatre.
The festival programme covers a range of issues and articles relating to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The majority of screenings are Birmingham premieres, and will be complete with guest speakers, including directors, academics, and representatives of issue-based groups.
Other venues that are showing films in partnership with the festival include the mac, Vivid, the Light House in Wolverhampton and Birmingham Library Theatre. The Festival is funded by Screen WM and the British Film Institute, and supported by leading documentary film distributor Dogwoof Films.
For further details visit www.birmingham-film.org/human-rights-film-festival/
