The Film Panel Notetaker

Telling Their Own Stories: The Individual as Documentarian and The Impact of User-Generated Media
(Preceded by Screening of Jennifer Arnold’s A Small Act)
Envision: Addressing Global Issues Through Documentaries
A Joint Program of IFP and the United Nations’ Department of Public Information
TheTimesCenter
New York, NY
July 10, 2010
After a lunch break following the “Education Obstacles and Solutions in Africa – [...]

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Education Obstacles and Solutions in Africa
Envision: Addressing Global Issues Through Documentaries
A Joint Program of IFP and the United Nations’ Department of Public Information
TheTimesCenter
New York, NY
July 10, 2010
By Erin Essenmacher
This panel directly followed the screening of Jennifer Arnold’s documentary  A Small Act.  The film follows the parallel stories of Chris Mburu, a UN worker from Kenya and Hilde [...]

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Keynote Speech: Harry Belafonte
Envision: Addressing Global Issues Through Documentaries
A Joint Program of IFP and the United Nations’ Department of Public Information
TheTimesCenter
New York, NY
July 10, 2010
By Brian Geldin

Photo by Erin Essemmacher.
The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) and the United Nations Department of Public Information (UN DPI) presented its second annual “Envision: Addressing Global Issues through Documentaries” forum [...]

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Two years ago, I visited the United Nations building for the very first time for an event to benefit renewable energy and awareness of climate change where I didn’t get to meet Leonardo DiCaprio.  My friends at IFP have alerted me to their event in which they’ve hooked up with the UN called ENVISION: Addressing [...]

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