¡Protest Chile!

December 2, 2011 Announcements, News, Video No Comments

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!

Video blogging

January 28, 2011 Announcements, Video No Comments

“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.