RWANDA AGAIN IN COMPETITION AT DOCUMENT8

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RWANDA AGAIN IN COMPETITION AT DOCUMENT8

The documentary co-produced by Fabrica and RSI, Swiss Television, participates at The International Human Rights Document Film Festival in Glasgow

Treviso, October 2010. Long observational shots, macro details, silence, solemn nature, time passing, concepts being communicated through observation not opinion, life portraiture.

These are the elements of “Rwanda Again”, the documentary co-produced by Fabrica, Benetton’s research centre on communication, and RSI – Swiss Television, that will participate at Document8, the International Human Rights Document Film Festival, that will take place in Glasgow, from October 26th – 31st October 2010.

Lawrence Blankenbyl and Phoebe Mutetsi, two young Fabrica residents, wanted to describe Rwanda fifteen years after one of the most brutal occurrences in recent history, the Genocide, with the delicacy of the daily life of its inhabitants who try to rebuild, through their work and simple values, what they once had and what they must have: food, shelter, liberty and trust for fellow human beings.

“Rwanda Again” tells the story of survival and remembrance as a means for healing the wounds of Genocide. The documentary focuses on life in five key locations where the atrocities of the ethnic conflict were perpetrated - an oar mine, sugarcane field, fishing lake, a cattle slaughterhouse and farms where life continues over grounds stained by violence.

This documentary marks a further step in the collaborative process between Fabrica and RSI. Fabrica is a place for experimentation and innovation, created in 1994 with the aim of combining culture and industry in an unprecedented way. Based near Venice, Fabrica offers young creative talents from around the world a one-year grant with which to develop their projects – guided by an international team of experts – in the fields of video, graphics, cinema, industrial design, publishing, new media and photography.

Ever since it was established 50 years ago, RSI (the Italian-language unit of the Swiss broadcaster SRG-SSR), has given prominence to documentaries among its cultural programmes and analyses of current affairs.

SCREENING:

Friday, October 29^th, 2010 at 4.00pm

Centre for Contemporary Arts

350 Sauchiehall Street
Glasgow G2 3JD

For further information:

Loredana Rigato

Fabrica Press Office: +39 0422 516349/516340

www.fabrica.it

Watch the trailer: http://fabrica.it/project/rwanda-again-trailer