May 20 - DEADLINE to apply - Summer School in Cinema, Human Rights and Advocacy

Summer School in Cinema, Human Rights and Advocacy
6 -13 July 2012, Galway,  Ireland

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 2011 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 Professor William Schabas, professor of international law at Middlesex University in London  and professor of human rights law of 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 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 coincided with the 24th Galway Film Fleadh in order to give participants the chance to assist festival screenings which formed a basis for critical discussion.

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