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Get involved with Document 2018!

The 16th edition of Document Human Rights Film Festival is taking place from 30th November – 2nd December and we’re looking for a team of enthusiastic volunteers.

If you have a passion for documentary film, human rights, and are keen to get hands-on experience in a small, friendly festival environment, get in touch with your CV and tell us a little bit about yourself and why you want to get involved.

Volunteers play a key role at Document, as you’re often the first point of contact for guests and audiences, so we’re looking for reliable, committed and friendly team members. You’ll have the chance to work in Front of House, Hospitality and Tech roles. Please indicate in your email if you have any particular interest in or skills relevant to either of these areas.

You need to be available to work at least 2 shifts over the festival dates. Shifts will be no longer than 6 hours, with regular breaks.
As a volunteer, you will be able to attend all festival events for free (subject to ticket availability). Document will provide snacks and a contribution towards travel expenses.

Document is Scotland’s only dedicated human rights film festival, developing inclusive programmes that are both critically engaging and aesthetically striking. Through screenings, discussions, workshops and performances we look to contribute to a wider awareness and understanding of human rights, to promote equality and to advocate for a nuanced, intersectional analysis of both local and global struggles.

To apply, please send your CV and motivation to sanne@documentfilmfestival.org before 20th October 2018.

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Posted: 9 September 2018

Document 2017 Festival Passes now on sale!

Weekend and day passes for Document 2017 are now on sale! Festival passes can be exchanged for tickets to any screening or event, subject to availability. NB All tickets are free to refugees, asylum seekers, OAPs and those on income support.

Weekend Passes: £20 (£18) + £1 booking fee
Day Passes: £10 (£8) + £1 booking fee

Weekend pass: Buy now

Friday pass: Buy now

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Sunday pass: Buy now

Document 2017 takes place at Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), Glasgow, 350 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3JD, 0141 352 4900. 

If you have any queries about festival passes, contact us: info@documentfilmfestival.org

Browse our full 2017 programme here: documentfilmfestival.org/programme

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Document 2017: Full Programme Online

Our 2017 programme is now online! There are over 50 screenings, workshops, panels and special events taking place during our main festival weekend from Thursday 19th October until Sunday 22nd October. Full details of those can be found here. Tickets for all screenings and events at CCA Glasgow are available here. Day and weekend passes will soon be available.

We also have special free community screenings across Glasgow in the weeks leading up to our festival weekend. Full details of those here.

Women, Native, Other, part of our Trinh T Minh Ha retrospective, opens at The Pipe Factory, Glasgow on Saturday 7th October. Details here.

Our brochure can be found at locations across the city and Scotland now. You can browse our brochure online at Issuu:

 

SQIFF & Document: FREE CeCe!

The Scottish Queer International Film Festival returns to Glasgow on 27/09 and runs until 01/10/17. We’re very excited to be teaming up with our friends at SQIFF to present a film during their festival weekend. FREE CeCe! (Jacqueline Gares, 2016) tells the story of trans woman Chrishaun Reed “CeCe” McDonald. On her way to the store with a group of friends, CeCe was brutally attacked and in defending her life, a man was killed. After a coercive interrogation, CeCe was incarcerated in a men’s prison in Minnesota.

An international campaign to free CeCe garnered significant support from media and activists, including actress Laverne Cox. Cox signed on as executive producer of FREE CeCe!, committed to exploring the role race, class, and gender played in the case. In the end, CeCe emerged not only as a survivor but also as a leader. The harassment CeCe faced is unfortunately all too familiar for trans women of colour. As Cox told the LA Times, “I might not be here if one day some decided to take it too far or I felt the need to defend myself and ended up in prison. But for the grace of God, I haven’t had to fight for my life in the same way CeCe had to that day.”

The screening will be followed by a discussion with Chryssy Hunter from Bent Bars Project, a letter-writing scheme for LGBTQ+ people in prison in the UK.


FREE CeCe! screens at SQIFF at 1pm, 01/10 at CCA. More details can be found here.

Buy tickets here or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

Full details of SQIFF’s 2017 programme can found at their website, www.sqiff.org.

SQIFF will also present a film during Document’s festival weekend 19-22/10. All will be revealed at our programme launch on 18/09 and full details will be online shortly afterwards.