Africa in Motion/Document Film Festival: Immigration Stories From Across Scotland

Africa in Motion Film Festival and Document Film Festival join forces to bring you Immigration Stories From Across Scotland, a day-long event full of screenings, workshops, seminars and more.

Immigrants from all over the world who now reside in Scotland were invited to submit their immigration stories on film. Bringing together many of these films, the programme will be curated thematically between screenings, performance but also panel discussion facilitated by NGOs working with refugees in Glasgow. Through this event we want to give an opportunity to immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers and people from diaspora communities living in Scotland, to share their stories and experiences of their lives in Scotland.

The theme of Africa in Motion 2013 is 'Twende (Let's Go): Africa on the Move', focusing on films and events that captures Africa's diverse richness and beauty through movement. Using this overarching theme, Immigration Stories From Across Scotland is part of programme that encapsulates all types of movement, including the movement of people across regions and borders. Each year, the film programme is complemented with a wide range of events including academic seminars, film makers’ workshops and masterclasses, music events and arts exhibitions.

Africa in Motion (AiM), is one of UK's largest African film festivals, taking place annually in late October/early November both in Edinburgh and Glasgow. This year is the 8th annual festival, taking place from 24 Oct to 3 Nov. The main aims of the festival have been, since its inception, to introduce Scottish audiences to the brilliance of African cinema and to overcome the under-representation and marginalisation of African film in British film-going culture. We believe that the best way to learn about Africa is to listen to African voices and to view representations created by African themselves, as these often counter the stereotypical representations we see from Africa in mainstream media in the West.

Document is the only dedicated international human rights documentary film festival in Scotland, and is a grass roots initiative that aims to use film as an advocacy tool to raise the profile and promote debate of human rights & social issues across the globe.