Programme: Day 18 Doc Media Month

Friday 18th

7th Leicester Docfilm Festival documentary film showcase to mark Global Entrepreneurship Week 2016.

1pm, ‘Walk the Talk’ (16 min) – in August 2015, a group of volunteers walked from Leicester to London to raise awareness around the social policies that impact on psychological distress, particularly within the homeless population.

The short film shows what they did and their subsequent meeting with Luciana Berger MP (former Shadow Minster of Mental Health). Thanks to Dani Harker, Trainee Clinical Psychologist for supporting this screening.

12-2pm LCiL Social Media Cafe, West End Centre, Andrewes Street, Leicester LE3 5PA

The ‘pop-up’ Museum of Community Media display hosted at the Doc Media Centre will see children leading the workshops and curating content as part of the 2016 Kids in Museums ‘Takeover Day’. FREE event.

Display of Kids in Museums Takeover promotional materials and several copies of the Association of Independent Museums (AiM) newsletter.

Remembering the young peoples newspaper in partnership with the Leicester Mercury, The Wave. Front cover of Soar magazine – the 16 page ‘community’ section of which I was editor, had its own cover.

4-6pm Doc Media Centre, Highcross

Join Nerina Boursinou and Daphne Mang for this special screening of the documentary, Future My Love.

Future My Love is a unique love story challenging our collective and personal utopias in search of freedom. At the brink of losing the idealistic love of her life, filmmaker Maja Borg takes us on a poetic road trip through the financial collapse, exploring a radically different economic and social model proposed by 95-year-old futurist Jacque Fresco.

How much freedom are we prepared to give to the ones we love? And how much responsibility are we ready to take for our society? Carefully weaving a texture of archive footage, black and white Super 8 film, and colour HD, Borg poignantly depicts the universal struggle between our heads and hearts in times of radical change.