Take One Action Film Festival Stories of our Lives + Campaign Short Film Awards Sun 20 September 2015 CCA
Take One Action Film Festival
Stories of our Lives + Campaign Short Film Awards
Sun 20 September 2015
CCA
6pm, £5 (£4.50 concessions), Theatre
Ages 15+
Book online via Take One Action / 0141 352 4900
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Take One Action Film Festival
Sat 19 September — Wed 23 September 2015
Despite being banned in its native Kenya, this vital montage of poetic black-and-white short films by art collective The NEST offers a deeply humane look at the challenges facing LGBT men and women in many parts of Africa.
Addressing topics such as the search for identity and self-determination, enforced heterosexualisation and the struggle for acceptance, their subjects have one thing in common: they all describe the need for love, and their fear of fulfilling this love openly.
Time and again, their fears prompt the question: it is better to hide away, resign oneself to the situation and leave the country, or stay and fight openly for diversity? The members of The NEST have opted for the latter and are determined to continue their struggle for recognition.
The screening will be preceded by Take One Action’s inaugural Campaign Short Film Awards, celebrating the very best film media spurring grassroots social action.
Stay with us after the film for conversations with Sunny Dolat – stylist, production designer and co-founder of The NEST Collective – and Zara Kitson of LGBT Youth Scotland.
“A beautiful film about love, about humanity, about one of the many facets of what it means to be African” – Indiewire
Dir. Jim Chuchu, Kenya, 2014.
Presented in assocation with Africa in Motion Film Festival.
Centre for Contemporary Arts
350 Sauchiehall Street
Glasgow G2 3JD
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