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(Apologies for cross-posting): Edinburgh International Film Festival DocSalon Documentary in the Age of Fake News Saturday, 1st July at 13h30 Traverse Theatre (Edinburgh) Tickets available from 10h00 on the day of the event Inflammatory clickbait, conspiracy theories, and misinformed memes gone viral affect public perception and comprehension of our world. ‘Alternative facts’ grants equal credence to truth and falsehood, while the cry ‘fake news’ takes a totalitarian cast as it forecloses on debate or contradiction. At the same time, the embrace of evidence and facts impedes necessary reflections on authoritative discourse and the intersections of power and knowledge. Both extreme credulity and radical scepticism reign as the present information order simultaneously devalues and inflates evidentiary currency. Under these circumstances what are the challenges and obligations facing documentary film? Join us for a public conversation, which brings together filmmakers, producers, programmers, and the audience to reflect on fake news and what it means for documentary and other media. Organised and chaired by Dr Leshu Torchin (University of St Andrews) with the Edinburgh Film Festival. Confirmed speakers: Firas Fayaad (Director, Last Men in Aleppo) Flora Gregory (International Documentary Consultant; former commissioning editor for Al-Jazeera English) Sonja Henrici (Scottish Documentary Institute; Producer of Donkeyote (Chico Pereira), Future my Love (Maja Borg), Seven Songs for a Long Life (Amy Hardie) Luke Moody (Director of Film Programming, Sheffield Doc Fest) Richard Warden (Producer, Middlefish Films; Film Lead, Mental Health Foundation) Further Details: https://ww.edfilmfest.org.uk/2017/docsalon-documentary-age-fake-news Dr Leshu Torchin Director of the Centre for Film Studies Senior Lecturer in Film Studies Department of Film Studies University of St Andrews 101a North Street St Andrews, UK KY16 9AD Tel: 44 (0) 1334 467 476 Publications: Click to see my contributions to Souciant<http://souciant.com/author/leshu-torchin/>, an online magazine of culture and politics Creating the Witness: Documenting Genocide on Film, Video, and the Internet<http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/creating-the-witness> (University of Minnesota Press, November 2012) <http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/creating-the-witness> <http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/creating-the-witness> Film Festival Yearbook 4: Film Festivals and Activism<http://stafs.org/books/film-festival-yearbook-4/> (ed. Dina Iordanova and Leshu Torchin, St Andrews Film Studies, 2012) http://stafs.org/books/film-festival-yearbook-4/> The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland, No. SC013532 -------------------------------------------------------- BAFTSS mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the BAFTSS list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=baftss ------------------------------------------------------- This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members of BAFTSS. --------------------------------------------------------