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Why Democracy? is a documentary project using film to start a global conversation about democracy.
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Iron Ladies Wins at Banff
17-06-2008
Iron Ladies of Liberia received two distinguished awards at the 2008 Banff World Television Festival. The film won Best Political Documentary and Best Documentary Special Jury Prize.
OneWorld Media Award for Iron Ladies
17-06-2008
OneWorld Media has awarded Iron Ladies of Liberia the Millennium Development Goals (MGDs) Award. The MGD Award is supported by the EuropeAid Cooperation Office of the European Union.
Steps International makes Realscreen's Global 100
28-05-2008
Steps International - the production company behind Why Democracy? - has made Realscreen's list of the top 100 production companies in the world.
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
Italian history repeating - Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:31:29 +0200
Back in power since last April for the third time, media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi is again confronting us with a crucial question: can we consider Italy a democratic country? The first obvious issue concerns the right to freedom of speech in relation to media ownership.

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On Karadzic - Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:38:06 +0200
Journalist Roger Cohen's short, plaintive op-ed on Radovan Karadzic, finally arrested on war crimes charges, somehow captures the climate of fear during the war in Serbia and the remorse and regret that lingers more than a decade later.

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Sokwanele on the Zimbabwe Agreement - Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:59:50 +0200
It is reasonable to assume that Zimbabweans are greeting the deal between Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF and Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC with something less than hope and/or elation. As the Guardian wryly observes in an editorial, talk is about the only thing that's cheap in Zimbabwe these days.

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