¡Protest Chile!

What happens when you privatise a public education system?

PROTEST CHILE

premieres on Saturday 3 December 2011 at
Latin America 2011  A d e l a n t e !
Congress House, Great Russell Street, London WC1

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also screening on Saturday 10 December at
Roehampton Human Rights Film Festival
University of Roehampton

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A video by Michael Chanan

No to Profit!

Filmed in November 2011.

An account of the huge student protest movement in Chile including
occupations, marches, demonstrations, street actions and web activism
and its impact on the country’s political life as they demand the return of free public education
in place of the most intensely privatised education system in the world

Essential viewing for anyone concerned with the future of
schools and universities in Britain under the plans enacted
and laid in by the Coalition Government

with generous collaboration by

Filmmakers
Renato Dennis, Rodrigo Tossi, Marcos Salazar

Archive
Señal  La Victoria, Revista Vaso

Interviews
Carlos Ossa, Manuel Antonio Garretón
Marcia Tambutti Allende

ICEI Universidad de Chile,
Tiziana Panizza, Carlos Flores

Available Soon!

Chronicle of Protest: the film

CHRONICLE OF PROTEST

(UK 2011) dir. Michael Chanan 90m. Digital.
www.chronicleofprotest-thefilm.co.uk

DVD now on sale exclusively from New Statesman

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A video diary about the movement against
government spending cuts in the universities and beyond
with students, activists and citizens of the real big society.

Featuring Terryl Bacon, Terry Eagleton, Mehdi Hasan, Joe Kelleher, Josie Long,
Len McCluskey, Blake Morrison, Paul O’Prey, Nina Power, Michael Rosen,
Lee Salter, Clifford Singer, Sly and Reggie, Mary Warnock and more.

With songs by Banner Theatre.

In collaboration with the New Statesman and Roehampton University.

Premiered Sat 30 April 2011 • East End Film Festival

Video blogging

“Last autumn, in response to the coalition’s spending cuts, Britain saw the emergence of the first mass protest movement in a generation. One result has been an outpouring of online video, giving a very different picture to the one presented by the mainstream media, but making it hard sometimes to see the wood for the trees.

To that end, the New Statesman is pleased to announce a collaboration with the documentary film-maker Michael Chanan, who has been filming some of the events fuelling the protest movement. Focusing on the arts, both within and outside academia, he is building up a picture of the movement as it develops.”

Watch these videos here. Read my blog about the project: Video Blogging for the New Statesman: Camera in hand and idea in the head.

¡Documentary Now! IV

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¡Documentary Now!

CALL FOR PAPERS
A Conference on the Contemporary Contexts and Possibilities of the Documentary

Dates: Friday 28 January and Saturday 29 January 2011

Conference Location: Westminster University, 309 Regent Street

¡Documentary Now! brings together scholars, filmmakers, students, and interested members of the public to discuss current trends in documentary film, from the return of documentary as a theatrical box office phenomenon, to broadcast television, the web, and beyond. It explores questions of industry, audiences, aesthetics, political engagement, documentary’s relationship to the mainstream media and other many other issues. What’s new in documentary? Where is documentary headed?

Keynote speakers to include:
John Akomfrah (subject to confirmation)

The next edition will include a focus on music and sound in the documentary.
Other possible themes will be:

• Sound and Voice
• Genre and Documentary
• Soundtrack, Affect
• Noise and Silence
• Image/Sound relations
• The Overheard, the Unseen
• Place, Space and Locative Media
• Still/Moving Images
• The City (Symphony)
• Migration and Globalisation
• Co-productions
• Documentary Festivals
• Animation and Documentary

If you would like to give a 20 minute paper at the conference OR send proposals for themed panels of 3-4 people, please send proposals (including 500 word abstracts of papers) to: Michael Chanan (m.chanan(at)roehampton.ac.uk) AND Alisa Lebow (asl36(at)earthlink.net)

The deadline for proposals is Friday, 15 October 2009.

There is no fee for attendance but registration is required. A charge will be
made for lunch on Saturday (optional).

¡Documentary Now! is supported by Roehampton University, Brunel University, and the Lincoln Chair of Communications