Take One Action Film Festival
Take One Action - the UK's first major activist film festival - takes three this year. The activist festival which takes place in both Edinburgh and Glasgow is all about people and movies that are changing the world.
The third Take One Action film festival will have more than 30 screenings of films on global and environmental justice themes from across the planet.
Highlights in 2010
- the UK premiere of the epic Climate Refugees, with director Michael Nash in Scotland for Q&As in Edinburgh and Glasgow
- the Scottish Premiere of Sundance favorite Budrus (pictured), about transformative protest against separation in Israel-Paelstine, with the film’s award-winning Brazilian director Julia Bacha here for Q&As
- the bicycle-powered, all age, twilight garden preview screening and Scottish Premiere of animated adventure Mia and the Magoo
- inspirational activists from around the world including the stars of Nero’s Guests (the multi-internationally award-winning Indian reporter, P Sainath) and Persona Non Grata (the priest-artist Venezuelan folk hero Frans Wuytack)
- dedicated strands on the Millennium Development Goals, Green Shoots and Alternative Visions from Latin America.
There will also be dozens of related events including exhibitions, tree-planting, food, music, activist workshops, and speaker events.
Each screening is accompanied by audience-led discussion with directors or leading speakers from the worlds of development, politics and the media.
The festival aims to reclaim cinema as a forum for social and political engagement. Festival director Simon Bateson calls the festival "a unique chance for audiences to become the action heroes. Our hilarious, enraging and world-changing line-up of films is just as much about getting bums off seats as on them."
