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Pusat Rakyat Loyarburok (3.127894, 101.677601)
Film Synopsis: Dadaab: The largest refugee camps in the world. Situated in Northeastern Kenya, it accommodates approximately 500,000 refugees, mostly from Somalia. A great number of these people have lived there most of their lives, trying to survive in congested and seemingly hopeless conditions. For those who know little more than life inside the camps, the outside word is just an ‘abstract thought’, far away from daily reality. Both the invisible and the real gates of Dadaab have made hundreds of thousands of people feel like prisoners, losing hope for the future. ‘One Flew Over Dadaab’ offers a rare insight into the ongoing drama of people who are forced to live in some of the most severe conditions on earth. It depicts the continuous humanitarian crisis through the eyes of the staff of the United Nations and other international organizations: people who are fighting an epic battle against hopelessness, trying to improve the fate of refugees, both children and adults, by using education and learning as their tools. Produced by UNESCO and Asia-Africa Kappa Productions Written and Directed by Andre Vltchek Edited by Takeshi Hata Cinematography by Satya Sivaraman and Andre Vltchek Music performed by Yuan Sheng Edited at Gurigura Studio in Tokyo, Japan Contact: UNESCO Regional Office for Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya ([email protected] / telephone: +254 20 762 2659) The film will be screened, followed by discussion with the director himself. Pls RSVP via email to [email protected] or sms 012-5180863. A simple donation will be collected for the rental of the space. Thank you. Date of Screening: Saturday, January 12th 2013, 8pm. Venue: Pusat Rakyat Loyarburok Address: 3-4, 4th Floor, Jalan Bangsar Utama 3, Bangsar Utama, 59000 Kuala Lumpur. (near Bangsar LRT) Director Bio: Novelist, filmmaker, investigative journalist, poet, playwright, and photographer, Andre has covered dozens of war zones and conflicts from Bosnia and Peru to Sri Lanka, DR Congo and Timor Leste. He is the author of a novel Nalezeny, published in Czech. Point of No Return is his major work of fiction written in English and translated and published in French by Yago. Other works include a book of political nonfiction Western Terror: From Potosi to Baghdad (translated into Turkish and published by Bilim + Gonul). Pluto publishing house in London recently published his provocative and critical book 'Indonesia: Archipelago of Fear'. Together with Rossie Indira, he is responsible for a book of conversations with the foremost Southeast Asian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Exile (translated into Korean, Spanish and Bahasa Indonesia). Non-fiction book Oceania (published by Expathos) is a result of his five years work in Micronesia, Polynesia and Melanesia and a damning attack against neo-colonialism in the Pacific. The plays Ghosts of Valparaiso and Conversations with James were translated into several languages including Spanish. He has collaborated with UNESCO in Vietnam, Africa and Oceania through various publications including fiction books The Story of Ann and The Story of Moana. Presently he is finishing writing his monumental political novel Winter Journey. He is a Senior Fellow at The Oakland Institute. He writes and photographs for several publications worldwide, corporate and progressive, including CounterPunch, Z Magazine, Newsweek, Asia Times, People's Daily, China Daily, Irish Times, A2 and Asia-Pacific Journal (Japan Focus). He produced the feature length documentary film about the Indonesian massacres in 1965 'Terlena – Breaking of The Nation', as well as the film on the biggest refugee camp in the world Dadaab: 'One Flew Over Dadaab'. His feature documentary film 'Rwandan Gambit' is reversing the official narrative on 1994, exposing Rwandan and Ugandan plunder of DR Congo on behalf of Western imperialism. His Japanese crew recently filmed his lengthy debate with Noam Chomsky on the state of the world which is presently being made into a film and a book. He is working on several new documentaries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. He frequently speaks at major universities, including Columbia, Cornell, Oxford, Cambridge, Sydney, Hong Kong, Auckland and Melbourne. Cofounder and Coeditor of Mainstay Press and Liberation Lit, he presently lives in Asia and Africa. His website is: http://andrevltchek.weebly.com/index.html