Glasgow Human Rights Network LGBTI Human Rights Activism and Film: And Still We Rise

Scottish premiere with participatory documentary film-making talk and panel discussion

Prof. Nancy Nicol & Richard Lusimbo (Sexual Minorities Uganda) talk on participatory video documentary film-making; And Still We Rise (2015, 70 mins) on resisting the Anti-Homosexuality Act; with Matthew Waites, University of Glasgow

This is the first of two 'LGBTI Human Rights Activism and Film' events at CCA on 15 November, organised by Glasgow Human Rights network, based at University of Glasgow. This event will focus on the innovative work of the Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights transnational project, a partnership with 33 NGOs in 12 countries (http://www.envisioninglgbt.blogspot.co.uk/), in participatory video film-making. Professor Nancy Nicol (Visual Arts department, York University, Canada) who leads the Envisioning project will talk on issues of community building, community outreach, capacity enhancement, human rights documentation and the challenges of grass roots participatory documenting-making in Uganda (30 mins).

This will be followed by the new Envisioning and Sexual Minorities Uganda documentary, And Still We Rise (2015, 70 mins), a documentary created in partnership with Sexual Minorities Uganda. The film follows the conflict over the Anti-Homosexuality Act in Uganda from 2009, and the broad community-based resistance to law, within a wider context of assault in civil liberties.

Finally Professor Nicol will be joined for discussion by Richard Lusimbo (Research and Documentation, Sexual Minorities Uganda), involved in the filmmaking process, and Dr. Matthew Waites (University of Glasgow) co-editor, with Corinne Lennox, of Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change (School of Advanced Study, 2013 - free online).

Partners: Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights; Document International Human Rights Film Festival; Being Human Festival; Human Rights Consortium at School of Advanced Study; Centre for Research on Families and Relationships. Further event info/links here