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Dear All,
Just a reminder that the Bristol Radical Film Festival finally gets underway next week. All events during the week are free with donation, and tickets for the head-line weekend (2-4th March) are now available from our website. Details below.
Best wishes and hope to see you there,
Steve Presence
The UWE Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries and Education present a Film Studies Research Group event:
BRISTOL RADICAL FILM FESTIVAL, 27th Feb - 4th March 2012
Despite being used since its inception as a tool to educate, agitate and inspire action on some of the most important social, political and economic issues facing society, the vast majority of audio-visual media today is dominated almost entirely by the profit
motive. Consequently, the majority of our screens are filled with a cinema which, when not entirely reactionary, gleefully reproduces the status quo and the social, political and economic values that go with it.
The Bristol Radical Film Festival showcases a radically different kind of cinema. Taking place over the course of a week, the festival hosts some of the most socially and politically engaged documentary films from around the world. Showing in a variety of community-based
venues and culminating in a weekend of screenings, talks, workshops and debates at the entirely volunteer-run and not-for-profit cinema, The Cube, the festival aims to bring this kind of cinema out from the shadows and into the community.
In the wake of the recession and the unnecessary and unjust attempts to make ordinary people pay for it, recent months and years have seen an explosion of protest, resistance and solidarity. The fight back is on. Come and see what cinema can do to help.
For more information, visit: www.bristolradicalfilm.org, or see our Face Book pages here: https://www.facebook.com/RadicalFilmFestival and here: https://www.facebook.com/?ref=tn_tnmn#!/events/233660030059074/