"Take One Action's focus on empowering local audiences to engage through film with global and environmental injustice is unique in the UK. This work is really, really important."
Patrons Ken Loach & Paul Laverty
2012 Festival
This is an archive of events that happened during the 2012 Take One Action Film Festival.
Fri 21 Sep 2012 – Sun 23 Sep 2012
Surviving Progress + Director Q&A
Martin Scorsese-produced rollercoaster into the future of humanity
Key themes: environment (general), globalisation
Age group: 12+
Sat 22 Sep 2012 – Fri 5 Oct 2012
Blue Tiger + family activities
Live action+animation for all ages about imagination+green space in our cities
Key themes: environment (general), youth/family friendly
Age group: 8+
Sat 22 Sep 2012
Powerful and nuanced drama about the impact of HIV in South Africa
Key themes: education, HIV and AIDS, poverty (global)
Age group: 15+
Sun 23 Sep 2012
The Dancing Forest + world food
Powerful story on sustainable food production and development in Togo
Key themes: gender and power, hunger/food issues
Age group: 8+
Sun 23 Sep 2012
Inspiring alternatives to hunger from Latin America
Key themes: empowerment/activism, hunger/food issues
Age group: 12+
Sun 23 Sep 2012
Food, films, music & discussion
Key themes: empowerment/activism, hunger/food issues
Age group: 12+
Sun 23 Sep 2012
The Price of Sex + Director Q&A
Provocative exploration of a multi-billion dollar industry
Key themes: gender and power
Age group: 15+
Tue 25 Sep 2012
Global Encounters: shorts programme and workshop (Edinburgh)
Our first shorts programme, plus discussion on the image of poverty
Key themes: poverty (global)
Age group: 12+
Tue 25 Sep 2012 – Wed 26 Sep 2012
Extraordinary spoof-drama about who owns the image of poverty
Key themes: media issues, poverty (global)
Age group: 15+
Tue 25 Sep 2012 – Thu 27 Sep 2012
Stunning doc on art, exploration and climate change
Key themes: climate change, world-changing film
Age group: 12 cert
Wed 26 Sep 2012 – Tue 2 Oct 2012
War Witch (schools), Edinburgh & Glasgow
Beautiful and arresting drama about child soldiers in Africa
Key themes: conflict/reconciliation, poverty (global)
Age group: 15+
Wed 26 Sep 2012
Acclaimed doc and political act: imprisoned filmmaker Jafar Panahi speaks out
Key themes: historical profile, world-changing film
Age group: U cert
Wed 26 Sep 2012 – Fri 28 Sep 2012
Tender and challenging film about maternal health across the globe
Key themes: health, poverty (global)
Age group: 15+
Wed 26 Sep 2012
The Carbon Rush - bike-powered screening
Compellingly explores the impact of Scotland’s carbon emissions across the world
Key themes: corporate responsibility, environment (general)
Age group: 15+
Wed 26 Sep 2012 – Thu 27 Sep 2012
Award-winning frontline account of the Egyptian revolution
Key themes: democracy/political systems, empowerment/activism
Age group: 15+
Thu 27 Sep 2012
Global Encounters: shorts programme and workshop (Glasgow)
Our first shorts programme, plus discussion on the image of poverty
Key themes: poverty (global)
Age group: 12+
Fri 28 Sep 2012 – Sat 29 Sep 2012
5 Broken Cameras + director Q&A
Sundance Best Doc about Palestinian father and filmmaker Emad Burnat
Key themes: Mid East/Isr-Palestine
Age group: 15+
Fri 28 Sep 2012 – Thu 4 Oct 2012
Cape Spin: an American power struggle
Hilarious and intimate take on US wind power dispute in Martha’s Vineyard
Key themes: empowerment/activism, environment (general), media issues
Age group: 12+
Sat 29 Sep 2012 – Sun 30 Sep 2012
Mary Poppins: battle of the bankers (free)
Art, street theatre and a classic Disney film
Key themes: corporate responsibility, youth/family friendly
Age group: U cert
Sun 30 Sep 2012
Gripping full-access account of the story that shook the USA and the world
Key themes: historical profile, media issues
Age group: 12+
Sun 30 Sep 2012
Powerful new drama about the sex-trafficking crisis that hit the UN in 2001
Key themes: gender and power, historical profile
Age group: 15 cert
Tue 2 Oct 2012 – Wed 3 Oct 2012
Beautiful and arresting drama about child soldiers in Africa
Key themes: conflict/reconciliation, poverty (global)
Age group: 15+
Tue 2 Oct 2012
We’re Not Broke / European preview
Sundance doc about the effect of corporate tax dodging on public services
Key themes: corporate responsibility, democracy/political systems
Age group: 12+
Wed 3 Oct 2012 – Thu 4 Oct 2012
Beautifully shot portrait of the young people who made the Arab Spring
Key themes: empowerment/activism, historical profile
Age group: 15+
Fri 5 Oct 2012
Haunting and inspiring tale of Ugandan gay rights activists
Key themes: empowerment/activism, gender and power
Age group: 15+
Sat 6 Oct 2012
Surprise Screening: Audience Award (tickets from £1) Edinburgh only
Simply the best film of the festival – as voted for by you
Key themes: world-changing film
Age group: 15+
Coming soon...
A River Changes Course
Thu 30 May at 18:00
Powerful reflection on the frontline impacts of our global food system
Canned Dreams
Fri 31 May at 17:45
Social impacts of food production centred on Europe
Fresh and Wild - Meal & Ceilidh
Fri 31 May at 20:00
Community meal, short films, ceilidh
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