Editor

Tomorrow evening at 8 pm the 9th Amnesty Filmfestival will open with the actual and impressive movie The Mark Of Cain. The opening will be at the tropenmuseum in Amsterdam.
Filmmaker Mark Munden, scenariowriter Tony Marchant and actor Shaen Dooley will be at the opening.

The filmfestival is taking place from the 14th untill the 18th in Amsterdam (Balie, Uitkijk and Paradiso) and Den Haag (filmhuis). In special programms filmmakers, human rights defenders, actors will talk about human dignity, human rights and filmmaking.

Since 1995 this film event is a platform for committed film productions about human rights and human dignity. The festival screens both documentaries and feature films. In discussions and talk shows surrounding the films, the film makers, human rights activists and audience have the opportunity to exchange ideas and views.

For more than forty years Amnesty International has devoted itself to the observance of human rights, all over the world. The written and spoken word in the form of rapports, letters to prisoners, governments and international organisations etc.- has proved and still proves to be a powerful medium. Amnesty International emphatically cannot and will not ignore the global shift towards a visual culture. The significance of film (image) as an information source is increasing. Images have the power to break through indifference. The last years have shown numerous examples of the camera helping to start international actions. The making of the film can itself also be seen as a form of campaigning. Due to the more and more advanced and small DV-camera’s it is becoming easier to keep a close eye on regimes in all parts of the world.

For more information check www.amnestyfilmfestival.nl