Document HRFF: Student Forum - The Fourth Estate

The Student Forum returns to Document! In the past two years we have shown films that explore the crisis in Syria and the youth experience in Palestine - using them as a launch point for post-screening discussion. This year we are offering two opportunities to watch and learn with your peers. Following the screening in the Cinema we'll be conducting workshops led by the Glasgow Human Rights Network in the Clubroom.

The Fourth Estate (2015, UK)
Dir. Lee Salter

Produced in the UK on a zero-budget, the filmmakers spent two years contacting and interviewing journalists, organisers and critics of the corrupt industrial practices highlighted by, but not limited to, the Leveson Inquiry in 2011. This opportunity for serious consideration of the true, entrenched causes and effects of the UK’s inadequate media must not go unexplored, and the recent press scandals must not be framed in terms of the “bad apple” soundbites we’re so often fed. The Fourth Estate examines the people and practices of the media industries. Illuminating not only specific incidences of corruption by press groups, but how the wider business as a whole, including the film and entertainment industries, has a huge amount to answer for in the state of the political economy of the west.

Steve Presence, who is featured in the film will be at the post-screening discussion along with Beth Pearson and other members of the Glasgow Human Rights Film Festival.