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RECENT NEWS

Iron Ladies of Liberia Honoured
02-12-2008
Iron Ladies of Liberia has won the Nigrizia Award at the XXVII Festival di Cinema Africano di Verona. Judy Kibinge's short film, Coming of Age also received a special mention.

Please Vote For Me Wins A Grierson
21-11-2008
Please Vote For Me has won at the 2008 Grierson Awards in London. The documentary was awarded the Jonathan Gili Award for Most Entertaining Documentary.

Please Vote For Me Wins in Chicago
06-11-2008
The Chicago International Children's Film Festival has honoured Please Vote For Me with two awards. They were the Adult Jury Award (1st prize) and Children's Jury Award (2nd prize) for 2008.

FEATURED FILM:

	10 DOCUMENTARIES : Dinner with the President

Director:
Sabiha Sumar and Sachithanandam Sathananthan
About this film:
Filmmakers Sabiha Sumar and Sachithanandam Sathananthan ask what democracy means in Pakistan – where its main promoter is the Chief of the Army who assumed power through military coup, and where society often still functions according to older tribal rules for political and social life.

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10 DOCUMENTARIES
Documentaries have an unrivalled power to use human stories to make us think about much broader issues. The 10 films at the centre of Why Democracy? do just that...
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SHORT FILMS
Running alongside the 10 documentaries, and integral to the outreach component of Why Democracy? is a collection of short films made by emerging filmmakers across the planet.
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10 QUESTIONS PLAYER
We asked all sorts of people ten tough questions about democracy and filmed their answers and made a great player for you to sort through them.
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LATEST BLOGS

Blaming Rumsfeld - Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:59:20 +0100

Almost a year after the Why Democracy film Taxi to the Dark Side won the documentary Oscar, revelations are still emerging about the US military's treatment of prisoners and the government's role. The latest is a US Senate committee report (co-issued by Michigan Senator Carl Levin and a certain Arizona Senator named John McCain) that faults top Bush administration officials, including Donald Rumsfeld, for the abuses at Abu Ghraib in Iraq and elsewhere.

Terrorism 2.0 - Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:15:45 +0100

The Mumbai attacks have left India in a state of shock. The demand for political accountability has already seen the resignation of a few high level politicians. With the world's largest democracy in such a vulnerable state, how can these acts be stopped in an age of 'celebrity terrorism'?

Guantanamo Bay Facing Closure - Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:07:01 +0100

Recent reports in the media have stated that US president-elect, Barack Obama, is planning to close the Guantanamo Bay detention centre. Having been at the center of US interrogation debacle, Guantanamo Bay has become a human rights disaster for the United States military.


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