Wednesday 28 January 2009 7.30pm start. Free event
FREE MONTHLY REEL ONE NETWORK EVENT
For local Filmmakers, Screenwriters, Digital Artists and crews.
Meet up and find out what’s going on.
With guest speakers and exclusive screenings.
NOW YOU SEE ME, NOW YOU DONT
UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS GO PUBLIC!
Gem de Silva, award winning investigative journalist will talk about “video and the power of the image" as an effective campaigning and lobbying tool for social justice. Prepare for powerful imagery!
Gem’s company “Tracks Investigations” offers a worldwide investigation, campaign and media production service for the environmental and animal protection sector. Gem recently won this years RSPCA’s Special Investigative Award for his investigative work on the international trade in primates.
Gem has worked in the charity sector for the last 12 years where his roles have included Special Projects Manager for Compassion in World Farming and more recently Director of Investigations for the BUAV.
Before moving into the charity sector Gem worked as an independent film and video director, producing many programmes on environmental and social justice issues for both the broadcast and non-broadcast media. He has led many successful investigative campaigns which have resulted in real improvements to environmental and animal welfare legislation.
Zoe Broughton, is a very successful human rights & environmental campaigns video journalist. She’s worked for Undercurrents – the organisation that brings you ‘news you don’t see on the news’ – and recently has been working on a project about disadvantaged teenagers in Oxford.
She films direct action videos for Greenpeace and has been asked to make a film for the Quakers, about keeping protest non-violent.
Venue: OFVM Film
Email: sue@ / www.
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