IMS Conferences and events
Advisory conferences are organised by IMS as a means to create a platform for innovation and sharing of knowledge within the field of media developmentConferences
- CDAC Media & Technology Fair
- Conference on media development in Myanmar
- Conference on media development in Myanmar – Presentations
- Covering the Arab Spring: Middle East in the Media – Media in the Middle East
- CPH:DOX 2011
- Day of the Dead 2011 Campaign
- DOX BOX Global Day: Documentaries from Syria
- IMS conference on ICTs and networked communications environments
- Moving Voices - a radio documentary training course
- Southeast Asian Partnership Meeting – Bangkok 2012
- World Press Freedom Day 2012 in Baghdad
- World Press Freedom Day 2012 in Tunis
CPH:DOX 2011
Together with CPH:DOX, the largest scandinavian documentary film festival, International Media Support is showcasing some of this year's most exciting and thought-provoking documentaries and seminars from November 3-13 in Copenhagen.
Photos: CPH:DOX
Under the title "Free Radicals" this year's seminars and documentaries present a range of inspiring journalists, bloggers, artists, and filmmakers who give their perspectives on the public uprisings in the Arab world and aim to expand the public's understanding of the documented events in the Middle East - and of the documentary forms themselves.
IMS has worked with CPH:DOX to invite key speakers and arrange partnerships between film producers and creative professionals who will be speaking at the seminars starting November 5. For several years IMS has brought together journalists, film artists, directors and other creative professionals to exchange ideas and experiences across cultural and geographical borders. Click here for more information.
With more than 200 documentary films from around the world the festival is devoted to supporting independent and innovative film and presents the latest tendencies in non-fiction, art cinema and experimental film. CPH:DOX also presents art exhibitions, concerts and five whole days of professional seminars.
In 2011 CPH:DOX runs from 3-13 November.
Seminars
We are all revolutionaries
Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark
Documenting a revolution
5 November at 15:00 in Cinemateket, Gothersgade 55, 1123 Copenhagen K – FREE OF CHARGE
January 2011: The Danish-Palestinian film director Omar Shargawi ('Go With Peace Jamil' and 'My Father From Haifa') has just arrived in Cairo to start shooting a new film about street children. A short time after his arrival, the revolution breaks out and thousands of Egyptians take to the streets.
Social media have played a decisive role in allowing thousands of people to gather in a short time during the revolutions in the Middle East. While some people protested on Tahrir Square in Cairo, others joined the revolts online. The internet became a new forum, where people could voice their solidarity - a tool for mobilisation. Rooted in a desire to create a change in society, people took part in the revolution both on the streets and through the many interactive platforms on the Internet.
'We are all revolutionaries' is a debate between the web editor Nora Younis from the Egyptian newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm, the Egyptian-American journalist, author and blogger Mona el-Tahawy and the Danish film director Omar Sharqawi, who was in the middle of shooting a film project in Cairo, when the Egyptian revolution started.
The debate is moderated by Michael Irving Jensen.
Seminar and film: Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark
8 November at 16:00 in Cinemateket, Gothersgade 55, 1123 Copenhagen K – FREE OF CHARGE
If a tree falls in a forest and there is no one around to hear it, does it make a sound?
A country that seems to be forgotten by the world, with its people at the mercy of their dictator. 'Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark' unfolds the dramatic and hopeless situation facing Bahrainian society, as its people fight for their right to be heard and to be part of the Arab Spring.
Commissioning Editor Jon Blair of Al-Jazeera will elaborate on the production of "Shouting in the Dark" in Bahrain. What impact does the presence of the media have on a revolution? What if the cameras are not rolling?
Blair will be debating with the Bahraini human rights activist Maryam Al-Khawaja who is currently Head of Foreign Relations at Bahrain Center for Human Rights. Al-Khawaja is an active voice for the demonstrators in the struggle for democracy and civil rights in the Middle East. As a child, she and her family were granted political asylum in Denmark, where she lived for 12 years before returning to Bahrain.
Moderator: Michael Jarlner, Politiken
Director: May Ying Welsh – Qatar, Bahrain, USA 2010 – 51 min
A country that seems to be forgotten by the world, with its people being at the mercy of their dictator. 'Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark' unfolds the dramatic and hopeless situation which Bahraini society is facing. The people's attempt to be one of the Arab Spring's successors fails as a result of the ruthless and intransigent actions of their oppressors. Shot undercover in Bahrain over the course of three months, the film follows the saga of a people fighting for democratic rights who broke the barriers of fear. The film is foremost set in the inside of a hospital where doctors and nurses equally try the impossible, to treat the interminable torrent of incoming wounded protesters and state militia with their last ounces of strength. They conduct their work with devotion and respect for humanity, and yet: one will remain shocked and speechless after watching the film, knowing that all of them are sentenced by now. The protests have been strangled at birth - 'Shouting in the Dark' remains the last testimony of a forgotten country.
9 November at 16:15 in Cinemateket, Gothersgade 55, 1123 Copenhagen K – FREE OF CHARGE
Thousands, maybe even millions, of video clips, images and sound bites have been disseminated through traditional and new media outlets since the uprisings in the Middle East started in December 2010. This massive documentation is a symbol of a new way of interacting, which has fundamentally altered relations between the media and the citizens.
Meet film director Elyes Baccar (Tunisia), journalist Thameur Mekki (Tunisia), film event maker Lara Baladi (Egypt), photographer and blogger Meggi Osama (Egypt) in a debate about documenting an unfolding revolution.
Moderator: Henrik Grunnet.
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