A two-day documentary film event featuring screenings, workshops and Q&A with directors looking at the role of filmmaking in challenging public perceptions of incarceration and detention.
Friday 4 November
Day 1
1-2.30pm Workshop/Seminar ‘Working with Archives’ led by Nicolas Drolc.
3-4.30pm Workshop/Seminar ‘Film as Method’ led by Michele Devlin, Laurence McKeown and
Claire Hackett.
5.30pm Opening of Captured: Documenting Incarceration.
5.45pm Screening of A Kind of Sisterhood followed by Q&A session with directors Michele Devlin and Claire Hackett.
7.45pm Launch of Professor Azrini Wahidin book Ex-Combatants, Gender and Peace in Northern Ireland: Women, Political Protest and the Prison Experience (Palgrave, 2016)
Drinks reception hosted by the School of Social Sciences, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Trent University and Palgrave Macmillan
For the evening of free screenings please
Saturday 5 November
Day 2
10am Screening of Sur les Toits followed by Q&A session with director Nicolas Drolc.
1pm Screening of Injustice
2.45pm Q&A session on ‘Activism and Advocacy’ with director Ken Fero.
4pm Screening of Encountering Attica followed by director Teresa Miller in conversation with a survivor from the 1971 Attica prison riots.
5.30pm End.
Free, The Space