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EngageMedia workshop in Padang, Sumatra
EngageMedia workshop on online video distribution.
Online activism and civic engagement
Online activism and civic engagement A free forum discussing the ways Web 2.0 technology can work for activism.
Plug-in TV production meeting for new season!
Are you interested in documentary-making, fundraising or research? Are you passionate about social justice issues? Then come and be a part of the future of Plug-in TV!
"Nowhere here in the middle" – Produced and Directed by Tara Jones.
If the government wanted to build a radioactive waste dump in your backyard... and changed the law to to make it happen... and told you it's perfectly safe.. what would you do?
Melbourne Social Forum 2009 - planning meeting
Melbourne Social Forum organisers are planning a forum for April 2009, and are seeking volunteers, organisers and student interns to fill a variety of roles, such as organising the film festival, and in particular in the area of film, media, and promotion.
Camp for Climate Action (Australia)
Feel passionately about the environment? Sick of just reading about potential strategies to overcome climate change? Want to actively take part in reducing fossil fuel emissions? Camp for Climate Action is inviting you to five days packed full of inspiring discussion forums, workshops, case studies and trainings that are aimed at minimising the use fossil fuels from Australia's coal exports.
Plug-in TV production meeting
Come and join us at our next meeting to help be a part of the future of Plug-in TV.
Activating Human Rights and Peace Conference
The conference will provide a crucial and critical learning space for activating human rights and peace in relation to the fields of law, justice, culture, humanities, education, politics, spirituality and health.
Film Screening: WE DANCE TO WHATEVER MUSIC IS PLAYING: the need for environmental education in the Philippines
WE DANCE TO WHATEVER MUSIC IS PLAYING: the need for environmental education in the Philippines Produced by: Sheryl Oteyza & Felipe Ruiz View the premiere screening of this documentary on Thursday 26 June, 6pm @ Lentils as Anything (Abbotsford Convent). Cost $10. Proceeds from the screening will help build libraries & education institutions in the communities visited in the Philippines.
Artist Talk: theweathergroup_U
Artist Talk: theweathergroup_U Sunday, 22 June 2008, 12:30pm, Cockatoo Island, Free theweathergroup_U is a collective pursuing experimental methods of audio-visual media production, environmental mapping and monitoring technologies, and processes of community-based interaction. theweathergroup_U seeks to examine how people from differing social and cultural backgrounds can connect with and further understand the environmental and ecological systems that surround them.
World Refugee Week Event - "Are We There Yet?"
Where we are up to in the struggle for refugee rights? A public forum in regard to issues involving Asylum Seekers. Featuring guest speakers & performances. The project is funded by Reichstein Foundation & produced in partnership with Refugee Action Collective (RAC) & Multicultural Arts Victoria. No bookings necessary.
EngageMedia Workshop in Yogyakarta
Workshop hosted by IVAA, Combine and MES56 in Yogyakarta
OPEN CHANNEL - Video Slam 2008
VIDEO SLAM will again kick off with a two-day workshop, from Tuesday 6pm 20 May to Thursday 6pm 22 May, wherein participants will learn how to incorporate Creative Commons-licensed content into a short film produced on site at Horse Bazaar, Melbourne’s Digital Arts bar, in under 48 hours. The finished work will be screened at the VIDEO SLAM forum and re-appropriated into the live re-mix event.
The Radioactive Exposure Tour 2008
Go on tour across South Australia with Friends of the Earth to have a first-hand look at the effects the nuclear industry is having on our country.
Indigenous Film Nights 2008
Reconciliation Banyule will be screening free Film Nights on the first Monday of each month.
Refugee Film Festival 2008
Refugee Film Festival 2008 – Call for film submissions Are you passionate about refugee issues? Are you an emerging refugee or non-refugee film makers willing to showcase your talent to a diverse audience? Triumphant! International invites you to take part in Australia’s second annual Refugee Film Festival. The festival will take place on the evening of Thursday 19 June at the Pitt St Congregation Uniting Church in Sydney’s CBD. The film festival will screen as part of 2008 National Refugee Week and further screenings will take place around Australia.
Melbourne Premiere of A Delicate Balance - The Truth
Nominated as the best 'unreleased' movie for the Australian Film Critics Association Awards, A Delicate Balance - The Truth is a new and inspiring documentary that will leave you with a very clear picture of how our health and our environment are so closely linked. Every person today has been touched or will be touched by the loss of a loved one to illness. In a time when modern medicine and science have made such enormous advancements, why is this so? A Delicate Balance - The Truth will leave each person fully informed as to what causes these problems and offers a solution. The film shows not only a way out of this cycle of sickness, of both human and the environment but also how our choices will help change the health and environment of all beings on this planetScreening of the film A Delicate Balance - The Truth. Cost is $10 per ticket and can be pre purchased via our website www.adelicatebalance.com.au You can purchase tickets online just visit: http://www.adelicatebalance.com.au/buy.html
EngageMedia film screening at 2008 Melbourne Social (Mini) Forum
EngageMedia will be presenting and screening short documentary films at this years (2008) Melbourne Social (Mini) Forum. The Forum will focus on the themes of Transport, Food Production and Urban Planning, and their place in a vibrant, ecologically sustainable and equitable community. The films presented by EngageMedia will touch on these themes as well as highlight some of the more outstanding documentaries that have been recently posted. This is a great opportunity to meet the minds behind EngageMedia, network with likeminded people, and see some great films. Entry is by Gold Coin donation
"Sex, Drugs and Lies" Film Premiere
Cambodian sex workers fight for their rights. In 2004, US pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences, the University of California, the University of NSW and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation were involved in setting up a drug trial on 960 sex workers in Cambodia. This is the sex workers story.
CHIKA: A Documentary Performance
This is the story of Chika Honda. Chika is a real person. She is a Japanese woman who spent a decade in Australian jails for a crime she has always insisted she did not commit. She was one of a Japanese tour group who were arrested for importation of heroin in 1992. She was released on parole in November 2002 and is now living in Japan.
EngageMedia Indonesian workshops
The Other Film Festival