THE EIGHTH annual Screening Rights Film Festival will be showcasing a series of thought-provoking pictures in Birmingham and Coventry this weekend.
The festival will feature seven films between October 27 and October 30 and will be screened at Coventry’s Warwick Arts Centre and Birmingham’s Midlands Arts Centre.
Screening Rights is part of Resonate, a year-long programme of interactive events that brings the work of the University of Warwick to life.
The Coventry leg of the festival starts on Friday, October 28 with a screening of ‘Eternal Spring’, followed by ‘Unloved’, ‘Huronia’s Forgotten Children’, ‘Silence Heard Loud’ and ‘Nico’ the following day.
Then on Sunday, October 30 the festival will end with a screening of ‘Eat Your Catfish’.
Dr Michele Aaron, Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick, who established the festival in 2015, said: “Screening Rights was established to explore and harness the potential of film to affect change in individuals and even politically.
“It’s a chance to see important films that deal with powerful human issues and also to then hear from the filmmakers and other experts on these issues, and talk about what has just been seen on the screen.”
“You see Hollywood films that look to tackle important issues but very often we are only moved to pity those we see on screen and the films we choose for Screening Rights have to go beyond that.
“We ask the question of whether films can promote or propagate the truth of human experience or actually serve to mask or manipulate it.”
Visit http://screeningrights.com for more information or to book tickets.
