Hi all!
The Healthy Scepticism Film Festival (taking place online, and free to attend) is hosting a vibrant programme of films and panel discussions that will take place from the 24th to the 26th of September. Events are free to access via its website and Zoom with live-streaming on its Facebook and YouTube channels. Free tickets can be booked through Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/healthy-scepticism-film-festival-online-free-tickets-168002775825
The film festival is organised by the Wellcome Trust funded Healthy Scepticism project with additional support from King’s College, London. The project seeks to understand and narrate the experiences of medicine’s critics, sceptics, antagonists, and dispossessed and to use these findings to enact positive healthcare change. The Film Festival is part of the artistic and public engagement activities of the project aiming to fill the gaps between research and the wider public.
TODAY'S FEATURE FILM is “Pink Ribbons, Inc.” (Canada, 2011), directed by Léa Pool. Also not to be missed is the premiere of “The UTI Documentary”, by Healthy Scepticism’s artist-in-residence Rita Conry. The UTI Documentary tells the story of people living with acute, current or chronic UTIs, a condition that is so common as to seem mundane. But it is also all too often both life-altering and also – in the words of producer and historian of medicine Agnes Arnold Foster - routinely “disregarded, neglected, brushed over, or spoken about as though it’s a consequence of being female and you just have to live with it.”
A set of historical health films, chosen by prominent experts in the field, will provide the public with a flavour of what health filmmaking looked like in the past.
Live events with scholars, artists and patients will offer the public the opportunity to debate the issues raised by the movies and, more generally, healthcare related topics.
We hope to see you at some of our events!
https://healthyscepticismfilmfestival.com/
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