Facing Repressions

Oct 16, 2024, 12.00 PM @ Festival Center D'24

Event language: English

Working as a filmmaker or journalist in high-risk environments can be dangerous and fraught with challenges. This event will feature a panel discussion with experienced professionals who have faced repression and threats while telling their stories.

Hear from filmmakers, journalists, and authors as they share their experiences and discuss strategies for:

Self-protection: Learn practical tips for staying safe in dangerous situations.
Safeguarding protagonists: Discover methods for protecting the identities and well-being of your sources.
Navigating legal and ethical complexities: Understand the challenges and considerations unique to working in high-risk environments.

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Guests

Karl Malakunas

Karl Malakunas is the director, producer and impact campaign manager of the Emmy-nominated and multi-award winning enviro-thriller documentary, Delikado. Karl won the Walkley Award – Australia's equivalent of a Pulitzer – for Best Longform Documentary for Delikado. Karl has also worked as a journalist and newsroom manager for the international news agency Agence France-Presse since 2001. He is currently AFP's Asia-Pacific Deputy Editor-In-Chief, based in Hong Kong.

Ibrahim Nash’at

Ibrahim Nash’at is a multi-award-winning Egyptian documentary filmmaker based in Berlin, Germany. He co-edited Talal Derki's latest film "Under the Sky of Damascus," which premiered at Panorama - Berlinale 2023 and won the Golden Alexander at the 25th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. Ibrahim has directed multiple short films that have been selected for various film festivals around the world. "Hollywoodgate" is Ibrahim's first feature film, which premiered at Venice.

Milan Vukelić

Milan Vukelić, is a Belgrade-based journalist, born in 1982. He spent the last 19 years working at different newsrooms, most of which were daily newspapers of news portals. His first job was at Blic, a newspaper led by the legendary Serbian editor Veselin Vesa Simonovic. Today, he is an executive editor at Nova.rs, a major Serbian news portal. He is an obsessive consumer of all kinds of media content, and an even more obsessive consumer of music.

Moderation

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.