Third Party Category
Third party event organised by Blottr
THIRD PARTY SCREENING ORGANISED BY BBC PERSIAN
Followed by a Q&A with producer Jenny Norton, reporter Mehdi Parpanchi and director Katherine Duchesne.
It's one of the most corrupt countries in the world and widely criticised for its human rights record but this year Azerbaijan is hosting Eurovision - one of the most glitzy TV music competitions in the world.
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Followed by a Q&A with director Maziar Bahari and BBC Persian TV's Pooneh Ghoddoosi.
From Cyrus to Ahmadinejad is a groundbreaking documentary about one of the most explosive conflicts in the world. For the first time on the record, an Israeli official, vice Prime Minister Moshe Yalon, implicitly, accepts the responsibility for the assassination of Iranian scientists, damaging Iranian nuclear centrifuges with a computer virus and destroying Iran's military and nuclear facilities in the past few years. ...more
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There's a long tradition in Afghanistan of families with no sons choosing to bring up one of their daughters as a boy. For the girls this means growing up dressed in boy's clothes, answering to a boy's name and being allowed the freedoms and privileges Afghan boys enjoy both within the family and outside.
Tahir Qadiry's film looks at the issue from a number of different perspectives. He spends time with a girl currently growing up as a boy, talks to a young woman who's still coming to terms with her experience being raised as a boy, seeks the opinion of a mullah and hears from a human rights activist.
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How are the rules of reporting being rewritten by risk? What innovative methods are journalists using to report from some of the world’s most dangerous places?
Journalists working in areas of conflict reveal how they get information when traditional techniques are insufficient. The discussion will focus on the interaction between local hires and foreign journalists.
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"Politics Versus the Personal: Totalitarianism Stamps out Love"
Presented by Borealis Theatre and the Estonian Embassy.
In conjunction with the UK theatre premiere of Purge by Sofi Oksanen at the Arcola Theatre, 22nd February – 24th March, Viv Groskop will lead a dynamic discussion about politics, love and oppression with three influential writers.
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On 25 February, ENO stages the London premiere of The Death of Klinghoffer by John Adams. A powerful and arresting opera from one of the world's greatest living composers, directed by Warhorse's Tom Morris. Based on the hijacking of the cruise liner Achille Lauro, and resulting in the death of Leon Klinghoffer, a Jewish-American passenger. The Death of Klinghoffer is a theatrical presentation of an event that dominated the world headlines and became a defining moment in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
This debate explores the complex role of the arts in illuminating contemporary events touching on the relevance of opera today and ENO's role in bringing fresh, modern work to the London stage, and extending the boundaries of theatre.
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Q&A with filmmaker Bozorgmehr Sharafedin.
BBC Persian's ground-breaking documentary, The Ayatollah's Seal, charts the Ayatollah's reign and, through a number of interviews with relatives, biographers and politicians, builds a profile of Iran's most powerful man.
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Followed by a Q&A with BBC Persian's Karen Zarindast and the film's producer Darius Bazargan in conversation with Iranian-American writer, journalist and author of Lipstick Jihad Azadeh Moaveni
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THIS EVENT IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Ten years after 9/11 and a year before what are likely to prove deeply divisive Presidential elections, BBC Global News sent a combined team from BBC Persian and BBC Arabic TV on an epic road trip across the USA to find out what it is like to be a Muslim in America today. America's complicated relationship with Islam is examined through the eyes of two reporters - Karen Zarindast who grew up in Iran and Samir Farah who grew up in Lebanon.
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Overfishing and dying oceans are in the media spotlight as never before. Will it change anything?
'End of the Line', the film about overfishing, has been screened across the globe. Channel 4's "Fish Fight' series this year prompted a huge public response in the UK. London department store Selfridges' "Project Ocean" event mixed scientists and royalty in discussing ocean issues. Celebrity chefs have taken up the cause, and stories about the dying oceans now seem to dominate environmental reporting by the media.
Will the increased spotlight on marine damage bring real change? Or is the ocean just the latest 'fad', as climate change issues fall out of favour with editors and politicians? Media, campaigning and policy experts will discuss the growing focus on 'blue' issues.
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