Three Continents Film Festival in South Africa on human rights

[Steve Smith]

›PO Box 1003 Auckland Park 2006, South Africa Tel: +27 11 403 8438  Fax: +27 11 403 8499  * [EMAIL PROTECTED]  * [EMAIL PROTECTED]  www.3continentsfestival.co.za   PRESS RELEASE                                                                                         July 1, 2003   RE: The 3 Continents Film Festival   This coming September, South Africa will host the 3 Continents Film Festival, showcasing recent outstanding documentary and feature length films from Latin America, Africa and Asia that explore compelling issues around human rights. The 3 Continents Film Festival is an initiative of Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR), Southern African Communications for Development (SACOD) and Uhuru Productions.   The 3 Continents Film Festival will build upon the successful 1st Annual 3 Continents Film Festival held last September in Buenos Aires, Argentina hosted by the Latin American Movimento dos Documentalistas. The 3 Continents Film Festival will strengthen ties between filmmakers, producers and distributors from the countries of the south, while developing a film audience from these regions. The festival embarks from the premise that film and video serve a vital role in insuring and restoring historical memory around struggles, oppression and denial of basic freedoms and inalienable rights.    From September 12th to the 21st at Cinema Noveau in Rosebank, Johannesburg and from September 19th to the 28th at Cinema Noveau at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town, the 3 Continents Film Festival will showcase films dealing with a range of themes including: transitional justice, reconciliation, racism, women’s empowerment, HIV/AIDS, socio-economic rights, xenophobia, migration and communal divisions.  A number of visiting filmmakers will be in attendance during the festival and will be available for Q&A sessions after screenings.   Besides the 20 days of screenings in Johannesburg and Cape Town, the 3 Continents Film Festival will embark on a wide-scale road show traveling to rural areas, townships and universities around the country.  In early September, as part of a lead-in to the festival, and again during the first week of October, the festival will visit various tertiary institutions in order to expose students to a variety of cinematic _expression_ on socially important themes from different cultural contexts.   The 3 Continents Film Festival is made possible by the financial support of a number of organizations including – the Atlantic Philanthropists, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the Foundation for Human Rights, the National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) and the Gauteng Film Office (GFO).  Further, cooperating partners assisting LHR, SACOD and Uhuru Productions to implement the festival include: the Film Resources Unit (FRU) and the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC).   The 3 Continents Film Festival will hit South African shores far and wide during the months of September and October with the message that film and video that is socially relevant can also entertain and serve as a vital mechanism for transferring messages around the democratic values of human dignity, equality and freedom.      Karam Jeet Singh 3 Continents Film Festival Coordinator Lawyers for Human Rights (073) 204 1297

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