UCDVO Development Film Series UCD Cinema STUDENT CENTRE, BELFIELD 6pm 2020

27 03 10 JAN FEB FEB

GAZA PUSH FOR SAMA

17 24 SUPPORTED BY FEB FEB

The Biggest Youth Little Farm Unstoppable

www.UCDVO.org UCDVO UCDVO welcomes the UCD and wider community to participate in the Development 8th UCDVO Development Film Series from the 27th January to the 24th Film Series February. For 5 consecutive Mondays, the Film Series will screen award- 2020 winning, international documentaries on global justice and equality issues followed by a guest speaker. The Film Series continues to be a highly valued part of UCDVO’s Development Education Programme and is funded by Trocáire and Concern Worldwide. This event is free of charge and all are welcome. Follow us on facebook for updates and reminders. Seat bookings must be made in advance of each screening by emailing: [email protected]

About UCDVO

UCDVO is a registered charity and was established in 2003 in response to an expressed desire among students to engage in voluntary work overseas. UCDVO runs a year-long Volunteering & Development Education Programme which includes 4 weeks volunteering overseas with local partners in India, Tanzania and Uganda. UCDVO’s Development Education Programme works to ensure that participants are responsible, responsive and ethical in their approach to international volunteering, while also opening up opportunities for those with an interest in development issues from a local and global perspective.

Get Involved

Check out our Facebook and Twitter for regular updates. Apply to the UCDVO Volunteering & Development Education Programme 2020/2021. Check out our evening courses, ‘Be the Change’ and ‘Skills in Development Education’. Attend the UCDVO Annual Forum in September 2020. 27 JAN

GAZA

WINNER OFFICIAL OFFICIAL Dublin International Film SELECTION SELECTION Festival, Critics Circle Best Documentary Hot Docs Sundance 2019 2019 2019

Gaza brings us into a unique place beyond the reach of television news reports to reveal a world rich with eloquent and resilient characters, offering us a cinematic and enriching portrait of a people attempting to lead meaningful lives against the rubble of perennial conflict. This elegantly shot and masterfully crafted portrait of Palestinian life offers a rare chance to be immersed in the heart of Gaza, as we glimpse behind the walls of this misunderstood land to get to know the real people who inhabit it.

Guest Speaker Garry Keane DIRECTOR / PRODUCER

Garry studied film at the London College of Communication and at the Irish National Film School. After graduating in 1992, he worked as a DOP in New York and London, before finally settling in Ireland, where he has been a documentary filmmaker for the last 25 years. In that time Garry has directed over 100 hours of TV documentaries for European and American broadcasters in over 20 countries worldwide. In 2011 he set up Real Films and since then Keane’s documentaries have been nominated for 11 Irish Film & Television Academy Awards; of these, his films have won four, including two in the “Best Director TV” category in 2013 and 2018.

Further Learning

The Guardian, Gaza live blog

Sadaka, The Ireland Palestine Alliance

Gaza: Preparing for Dawn by Donald Macintyre 03 feb

Push

IRISH OFFICIAL UK PREMIERE SELECTION PREMIERE Irish Film Institute’s Sheffield Doc Festival Documentary Film Festival Hot Docs 2019 2019 2019

Push is a new documentary from award-winning director Fredrik Gertten, investigating why we can’t afford to live in our own cities anymore. Housing is a fundamental human right, a precondition to a safe and healthy life. But in cities all around the world, having a place to live is becoming more and more difficult. Who are the players and what are the factors that make housing one of today’s most pressing world issues?

Guest Speaker Mary Higgins

Mary has worked since the 1970s in the delivery, design and management of services for groups who are socially disadvantaged including children, single parent families, migrants, people who are homeless or in housing distress and survivors of institutional abuse in voluntary and statutory organisations. She has worked on campaigns for the abolition of illegitimacy, improvement of welfare rights and the rights of tenants, and the right to housing. She worked as Director of Threshold, and was founding Director of the Homeless Initiative, the Homeless Agency and Caranua. She currently works as an independent management and social policy consultant.

Further Learning

Listen to RTE’s ‘Trends emerging of a global housing crisis among developed nations’

Support Raise the Roof

Read Insight Report: Making Affordable Housing a Reality in Cities 10 FEB

For Sama

AWARD AWARD AUDIENCE Cannes Film Festival Dublin International Film Festival AWARD Best Documentary Best Documentary and Human Rights SXSW Film Festival 2019 2019 2019

For Sama is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war. A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while cataclysmic conflict rises around her. Her camera captures incredible stories of loss, laughter and survival as Waad wrestles with an impossible choice– whether or not to flee the city to protect her daughter’s life, when leaving means abandoning the struggle for freedom for which she has already sacrificed so much. The film is the first feature documentary by Emmy award-winning filmmakers, Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts.

Guest Speaker Calvin Sweeney

Calvin is co-founder of the SCOOP Foundation, an Irish NGO which fundraises through the arts to support their projects in Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria, Yemen, Kenya, Cambodia, India and Ireland. Calvin is currently project managing their art therapy and IT programmes for Yazidis affected by the IS wars in the region.

Further Learning

Syrias Vibes – Scoop Foundation

Watch ‘City of Ghosts’

Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline 17 FEB

The Biggest Little Farm

DIRECTOR’S GRAND AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD JURY PRIZE AWARD Best Documentary Best Documentary Best Feature Documentary Palm Springs International Sedona Film Festival Gasparilla Film Festival Film Festival 2019 2019 2019

The Biggest Little Farm chronicles the eight-year quest of John and Molly Chester as they trade city living for 200 acres of barren farmland and a dream to harvest in harmony with nature. Through dogged perseverance and embracing the opportunity provided by nature’s conflicts, the Chester’s unlock and uncover a biodiverse design for living that exists far beyond their farm, its seasons, and our wildest imagination.

Guest Speaker Aaron Bailey

Aaron Bailey is a resident in Cloughjordan Ecovillage, and has been living there since construction began 10 years ago. He works regularly with Cultivate, a sustainability co-operative based in the Ecovillage, that host trainings and events in community resilience, sustainable living and permaculture design. Aaron has been very involved with Extinction Rebellion to passionately ring the alarm bell for transformative change. Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Tipperary, aims to showcase one model of what the change can look like, living intentionally in community: including over 50 eco-homes with community woodlands, renewable energy, a community amphitheatre, wood-fired bakery, research gardens & a community farm.

Further Learning

Cloughjordan Ecovillage and Farm

Third Space Galway – Interdisciplinary Arts Research Project

Gareth Conlon Ted X: We can only regenerate the land if we see our interconnectedness 24 feb

Youth Unstoppable

NOMINATED WINNER BEST Best Documentary Student Choice Award CANADIAN Riviera International Telluride Mountainfilm Festival FEATURE Film Festival Planet in Focus Film Festival 2019 2019 2018

Youth Unstoppable takes us inside the rise of the Global Youth Climate Movement. Slater Jewell-Kemker was 15 when she began documenting the untold stories of youth on the front lines of climate change refusing to let their futures slip away. Over the course of 12 years and set against stunning visuals of a planet in crisis, Youth Unstoppable follows the evolution of a diverse network of youth rising up to shape the world they will live in.

Guest Speaker Jane Mellett

In 2018, Jane walked 1,000km from Italy to the UN Climate Summit (COP24) in Poland as part of The Climate Pilgrimage. Jane has a keen interest in Theology, Spirituality and Social Justice and in recent years her focus has moved to the climate crisis and how faith communities can respond. Jane has a lot of experience of overseas volunteering, mostly in India, and now works for Trócaire on a climate justice project called “Laudato Si - Care for Our Common Home. Since December 2018, Jane has been involved with the weekly Fridays For Future protests outside Dail Eireann encouraging intergenerational groups to get involved.

Further Learning

Fridays for Future

Greta Thunberg on the Youth Unstoppable panel at COP24

Climate Generation: Awakening to Our Children’s Future by Lorna Gold UCDVO Film Series Programme

27 GAZA 17 THE BIGGEST JAN Guest Speaker: Garry Keane FEB LITTLE FARM Director/Producer Guest Speaker: Aaron Bailey UCD Cinema 6pm UCD Cinema 6pm

03 PUSH 24 YOUTH FEB Guest Speaker: Mary Higgins FEB UNSTOPPABLE UCD Cinema 6pm Guest Speaker: Jane Mellett UCD Cinema 6pm

10 FOR SAMA FEB Guest Speaker: Calvin Sweeney UCD Cinema 6pm

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The UCDVO Development Film Series is kindly supported by Trocáire and Concern Worldwide. The content and views represented in these films should not be taken to reflect the policies and views of Trócaire, Concern or UCD Volunteers Overseas.