screenings – Frontline Club

The Frontline Club partners with Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2020

Vaughan Smith — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 12:53:36 +0000

Frontline Club partners with Human Rights Watch Film Festival this March to screen two documentaries, Collective (Collectiv) and Radio Silence

The Hard Stop: portraying the people behind the London riots

Heenali Patel — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 15:01:40 +0000

Words and pictures by Heenali Patel One summer morning in 2011, London’s Metropolitan Police pulled over Mark Duggan– a young, black, British man– and shot him dead. His killing sparked what became known as the Tottenham riots, and set off a chain reaction of arson and looting across the country. Images of burning buildings and […]

He Named Me Malala: Education and the Refugee Crisis

Ratha Lehall — Mon, 23 May 2016 11:48:57 +0000

“We learn so much from Malala, she tells us that we have a voice in the West but we take it for granted”, Guwali Passarlay. On Friday 20 May, the Frontline Club hosted a screening of ‘He Named Me Malala’, an insightful and emotional portrait of Malala Yousafzai, that usher us into Malala’s life; both now and […]

Screening: Open Access + Q&A

Wotienke Vermeer — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 12:06:13 +0000

In 2011 the law ‘On Access to Public Information’ was adopted in Ukraine. Open Access brings together five stories of people in different parts of the country trying to invoke the law to access information. Told by five directors, these stories all illustrate the lack of transparency, indifference, dominance of private motifs and lack of responsibility by the country’s leaders. The screening will be followed by a Q&A via Skype with Ukrainian journalist and protagonist Sergii Leshchenko.

Summer Screenings at the Frontline Club

Wotienke Vermeer — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 15:28:13 +0000

This summer Tuesday’s are the day to come to the Frontline Club for our summer season exploring how technological changes shape the way we view and document the world. Tuesday 30 July 2013, 7:00 PM – Side by Side For almost one hundred years there was only one way to make a movie: photochemical film. Over […]

Mama Illegal

Vaughan Smith — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:00:00 +0000

By Nicky Armstrong Women leaving Moldova and crossing the border into Romania and then on to European countries to work illegally has become a mass phenomenon that is tearing families apart. Bordering Romania and the Ukraine, Moldova is the poorest country in Europe, with an unemployment rate of 80%. Mamma Illegal follows three women between […]

American Muslim: Freedom, Faith and Fear

Vaughan Smith — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:14:24 +0000

By Alan Selby A lot has changed in the years since 9/11. The date itself has become emblematic of a change in attitudes towards Islam, perhaps most notably in the country which bore witness to the infamous attacks that day. Popular opinion has shifted, and the land of the free has become an increasingly […]

THIRD PARTY SCREENING: American Muslim: Freedom, Faith and Fear

Millicent Teasdale — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:00:00 +0000

ORGANISED BY BBC PERSIAN

THIS EVENT IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Ten years after 9/11 and a year before what are likely to prove deeply divisive Presidential elections, BBC Global News sent a combined team from BBC Persian and BBC Arabic TV on an epic road trip across the USA to find out what it is like to be a Muslim in America today. America's complicated relationship with Islam is examined through the eyes of two reporters - Karen Zarindast who grew up in Iran and Samir Farah who grew up in Lebanon.

Tears of an Afghan Warlord

Vaughan Smith — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:58:49 +0000

By Rosie Scammell After nearly a decade in the making, Tears of an Afghan Warlord had its UK premiere on Friday night, with director Pascale Bourgaux on hand to tell the story behind the screen. Bourgaux dedicated the evening to Frontline News Television cameraman James Miller, killed in 2003 while filming in Gaza, […]

Looking ahead to February at the Frontline Club

Vaughan Smith — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:06:48 +0000

Our packed February programme kicks off with an opportunity to hear from former Google executive Wael Ghonim, who helped mobilise support for Egypt’s street protests with his ‘We are all Khaled Said’ Facebook page and was recently named one of Time magazine’s top 100 most influential people. The following week we will be launching a series of discussions, screenings and workshops examining the risks faced […]