Human Rights Watch Film Festival – Frontline Club

HRWFF – Ghost Fleet

Frontline Staff — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 16:00:40 +0000

The Frontline Club is a presenting partner for another film from this years Human Rights Watch Film Festival. These screenings will be taking place at Regent Street Cinema on 18th March, 7:30pm and on March 19th at the Barbican, 6:15pm.

Bangkok-based Patima Tungpuchayakul has committed her life to rescuing and returning home men from Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, and other Southeast Asian nations who have been sold to Thai fishing companies by human traffickers.

Once at sea, these captive men go months, even years, without setting foot on land, earning little to no pay, trapped in a modern form of slavery on the boats and forced to endure horrific and often deadly conditions.

Patima and her small team of activists risk their lives on remote Indonesian islands to find these men, fight for their emancipation and seek justice for them. In the face of illness, death threats, corruption, and complacency, Patima’s fearless determination reveals stories of criminal conspiracy at the heart of the global seafood industry, as she calls on her nation and the world to wake up and take action.

“You and I have to work together to tell this story. If this is going to change, it’s going to take all of us.”
Patima Tungpuchayakul, film subject

For further information about the Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2019, click here.

HRWFF – Bellingcat: Truth in a Post-Truth World

Frontline Staff — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 15:57:01 +0000

The Frontline Club is proud to be presenting partners with the Human Rights Watch Film Festival on 3 groundbreaking films offering fresh perspectives and critical insights on human rights concerns impacting people around the world. The first screening takes place at the Barbican on Thursday March 14th.

“In citizen journalism…trust is generated not by the brand name or the glory of the institution, it’s generated through transparency.“ – Jay Rosen, film subject

Bellingcat – Truth in a Post-Truth World follows the revolutionary rise of the “citizen investigative journalist” collective known as Bellingcat, dedicated to redefining breaking news by exploring the promise of open source investigation.

This highly skilled and controversial collective exposes the truth behind global news stories – from identifying the exact location of an Islamic State murder through analysis of a video distributed on YouTube, to tracking the story behind the mysterious poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in the UK, Bellingcat hunts down answers using social media, reconstruction techniques and audio analysis.

From his East Midlands home, de facto leader Eliot Higgins and his team of volunteer truth-seekers put newspapers, networks and governments to the test, shedding light on the fight for journalistic integrity in the era of fake news and alternative facts.

For further information about the Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2019, click here.

Frontline partnered screenings at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival

Charlotte Cook — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:37:48 +0000

The Frontline Club is proudly partnering with three screenings at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. The festival is running between March 23 – April 1 and there are many important, and excellent, films featured.

We highly recommend seeing the three we’re partnering with (details below). Also if you missed them at the club please do go and see Laura Poitras’ The Oath and Jennifer Arnold’s A Small Act.

The Team, dir. Patrick Reed

March 27 4.30pm (link to book)
Ritzy Cinema, Brixton Oval – box office 0871 902 5739

March 28 9pm (link to book)
Ritzy Cinema, Brixton Oval – box office 0871 902 5739

Granito, dir. Pamela Yates

March 25, 6.15pm (link to book)
ICA, The Mall – box office 0207 930 3647

March 26, 4pm (link to book)
Curzon Soho, 99 Shaftesbury Avenue – box office 0871 7033 988

When the Mountains Tremble, dir. Pamela Yates

March 26, 6.30pm (link to book)
Curzon Soho, 99 Shaftesbury Avenue – box office 0871 7033 988

More information about the festival can be found here.