The film festival takes place from 12-15th of October at the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Glasgow Film Theatre. A screening of (((i))) - the film about the Indymedia Argentina collective will also be screened and introduced by film maker Andres Ignolia.

Program out for DOCUMENT 4 : International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, still from i - the film; editorial meeting at raod blockade in Argentina

DOCUMENT 4 : International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival 13–16 October @ CCA & GFT Cinemas, Glasgow Launch Night: Thursday 12th October • 7.30pm • CCA 4&5 Screening 90 films over 4 day — for the full programme please see: http://www.docfilmfest.org.uk The program includes a world-wide round-up of current human rights issues. Following films relevant to Scotland are scheduled: Asylum: A Place of Refuge Peter Barber-Fleming UK • 2005 • 57mins In 2000 Glasgow officially welcomed the arrival of asylum seekers in Scotland. There are now over 7000 living here. This film, made over many months tells the stories, past and present, of 5 individuals or families of differing circumstances, ages and nationalities. It tells of the extraordinary and yet common place circumstances which have brought them to Scotland and explores their present difficulties, fears and aspirations. Welcome to Dungavel Camcorder Guerrillas Scotland • 2004 • 25mins Imagine escaping persecution in your own country, only to be locked up without trial in Dungavel. According to Amnesty International, the UK detains an estimated 25,000 asylum seekers every year: men, women and children. Using documentary, testimony, animation, original music and drama, Visit Dungavel: Monster of the Glen, is a shocking, funny, informative and moving series of short films about detention and what to do about it! A Home of their Own Jak Milroy Scotland • 2006 • 33mins In 2002 Glasgow City Council, through the New Labour Government, gave its tenants a chance to vote for stock tranfer, offering better homes and improved services . Over 80,000 council tenants had the chance to vote - though not all did, 30,000 voted yes. With a winning vote all Glasgow City Council Housing stock was transferred to the newly formed “Glasgow Housing Association”. However, people who had previously bought thier homes from Glasgow City Council or had bought an ex-council house and were factored by the Council, were not given the right to vote. “A Home of their Own” shows what has happened since then. Smoke and Mirrors Neil Gray Scotland • 2006 • 25 mins This film: made in partnership with ‘Edinburgh Against Stock Transfer’ campaign group, documents their successful challenge to The City of Edinburgh Council’s plan to privatize all 23,000 of the city’s council homes. It considers the impact of gentrification programmes on working-class communities, and shows how a well-organised grass-roots, community-based struggle can challenge and defeat deeply unpopular policy decisions. M74: Heading in the wrong direction Neil Gray UK • 2006 • 17mins The proposed M74 motorway in the Southside of Glasgow is the single largest road project in Britain: “A five-mile concrete monster on stilts”. Through lyrical yet horrifying imagery, this film documents the existential nightmare of living by a motorway; and borrowing from past experience in Glasgow, questions and challenges the proposed re-shaping of urban space in an area already blighted by previous planning travesties. Pura Vida? (Pure Life?) Jan Nimmo Scotland • 2006 Imagine Costa Rica: a green paradise, diverse, dense forests full of exotic plants and animals, rivers and coastal waters teeming with life, skies alive with more bird species than all of Europe. Pura Vida! But is there another reality, something rotten, which is tarnishing the green image of the `’Switzerland of Central America‘? Pura Vida? takes a journey through the banana and pineapple plantations of Costa Rica, with local trade unionist and environmentalist, Carlos Arguedas. Carlos shows us how the chemical cocktail used to grow the fruit is affecting workers, the neighbouring communities and the environment, and how this once fertile and unspoilt land is being consumed and laid waste by the greed of the big fruit producers – all in the name of bringing cheap bananas and pineapples to our dinner tables. Mentiras Nick Higgins Scotland • 2006 • 14mins Mentiras is a visually stunning but profoundly unsettling journey through the world’s largest city. Based on one mans’ confession to human rights crimes committed with the backing of the Mexican government - it is the story of a troubled conscience and the rupturing of official lies. —- Tickets: Single Screenings £2/£4 — Day Passes £5/£10 — Weekend Passes £15/£30 — Asylum Seekers Free Venues: CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD GFT, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB AND independent / radical book fair • stalls at CCA throughout the festival • titles with which you can make a positive change in the world • cornerstoned by AK Press: making available radical political books, pamphlets, media and other materials published by independent presses, not the corporate giants, • the sorts of books that are less-and-less publicly available • self-organised bi-monthly events, bringing regular access to independent / radical publishers and producers back to Glasgow Document Festival, 15 Argyle Court, 1103 Argyle Street, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, G3 8ND t: +44 (0)141 4290185 m: +44 (0)7963 476204 e: docfest@gmail.com www.docfilmfest.org.uk

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