Documenting Reality

Oct 14, 2024, 11.30 AM @ Festival Center D'24

Event language: English

At a time when fake news and threats are ubiquitous on social media, the importance of accurate and reliable documentation has never been greater. In this discussion, we will reflect together on the role that documentaries and other media can play in the fight against disinformation and misinformation, and how we can find constructive approaches.

We will take a look at the different forms of storytelling we find in today's media landscape. From investigative journalism to citizen journalism, from documentary film to the reel, we will examine the different approaches to documenting reality and informing society.

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Guests

Leni Velasco

Leni Velasco is a Filipino artist-activist and human rights advocate. She co-founded DAKILA and serves as its Secretary General and the Executive Director of its Active Vista Center. She's worked on advocacy communications, social movement building, and creative campaigning, and has been recognized for her contributions to human rights.

Anna Alboth

Anna Alboth is a Polish journalist, blogger and political activist. She gained international attention as the initiator of the Civil March for Aleppo - a peace march on foot from Berlin to Aleppo from December 2016 to August 2017, for which she was nominated for the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize. In the summer of 2021, Alboth co-founded Grupa Granica - a group of Polish human rights organisations caring for refugees on the Belarusian-Polish border.

Valentin Thurn

Director Valentin Thurn gained international recognition with 'Taste the Waste - Global Food Waste' and '10 Billion - How can we feed everyone? Both films were huge hits with audiences and won numerous awards at home and abroad. In 2003, he founded ThurnFilm GmbH in Cologne and has since produced films by other authors and directors - always with a focus on socio-political content. In 2022 he was elected as one of the board members of AG Dok.

Askold Kurov

Born in Uzbekistan in 1974, now based in Turkey. In 2010 took a degree in documentary filmmaking at the Marina Razbezhkina Film School in Moscow. In 2012 he was one of the directors of the award-winning documentary «Winter, Go Away!»& His next films «Leninland», «Children 404» and «The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov» also won critical acclaim and screened at numerous festivals. His work focuses on human rights issues and social conflicts in contemporary Russia.

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Anna Ramskogler-Witt

Anna Ramskogler-Witt began her career in the film industry in 2006 at Vienna's Pool Film Distribution, where she set up the education programme. Since the beginning of her career, she has been convinced that documentaries can achieve a longer life and a larger audience through an impact approach. From 2019 - 2023 she served as Artistic Director of the Human Rights Film Festival Berlin. Together with Vivian Schröder, she founded The Good Media Network in 2024 and serves as the Artistic Director.

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Film

Of Caravan and the Dogs

How do you report on a war being waged by your own government when the word “war” is banned in reporting? This film accompanies teams from Novaya Gazeta, Radio Echo of Moscow, and Rain TV on their fight for press freedom.