"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
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- Artistic Director: Simon Bateson
- Patrons: Ken Loach and Paul Laverty
- Screenings: exciting screening | screening discussion
- Other events: sociable workshops | discussion workshops
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Reviews and accolades
New Internationalist, Sept 2010
...brings together the most acclaimed, globally conscious movies of the year.
www.newint.orgThe List, Sept 2010
So much more than the sum of its parts, this excellent film fest successfully, and no less impressively merges silver screen discoveries with activities and workshops galore… A chance to speak up and speak out, Take One Action we salute you!
www.list.co.ukThe Metro, Sept 2010
With the UK Film Council going belly up, it’s been a bleak time for lovers of world cinema, so thank goodness for Take One Action…
www.metro.co.ukThe Skinny, Sept 2010
A fresh progamme of films with a globally conscientious perspective… Sobering and positive in equal measure, Take One Action Film Festival returns in its third year to once again raise audience awareness and advocacy around an extensive range of pressing global issues… Don’t miss it!
www.theskinny.co.uk/film/features/100243-reel_change_take_one_action_film_festivalThe Herald, Sept 2010
The best “serious” cinema doesn’t have to be the cultural equivalent of a cold shower or political hustings, of course, and that’s where the Take One Action Festival steps in. Running in Glasgow and Edinburgh from September 23 until October 5, this series of UK and Scottish premieres aims to engage local audiences with global stories, to break down the barriers of race, religion and geography that separate us from people whose daily lives are shaped by issues that, in all honesty, aren’t always very distant from our own experiences.
www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/film-tv-features/global-issues-with-a-local-perspective-1.1056324Deborah Burton, Tipping Point Film Fund, September 2009
Films can often shape and influence our local, national and global debates…and the more we can engage a wider and wider audience on the key issues of our day the more this awareness will lead to direct impact on those who need to hear and make change happen. It is great to see such a wide range of content in Take One Action – films of appeal to all ages – and every single one linked to an appropriate campaign or action. As an organization that values the power of the moving image to inform, entertainment and move to action, Take One Action is an invaluable organisation that reflects a growing public appetite for such films, be they fiction or documentary.
www.tippingpointfilmfund.comKen Loach and Paul Laverty, patrons, January 2010
Take One Action’s focus on empowering communities to engage with global and environmental issues through great film is unique in the UK. … This work is really, really important.
www.sixteenfilms.comCreative Scotland, April 2010
An exemplar in relation to true audience engagement... An organisation whose medium is as important as the message... What could easily have become a tub-thumping platform of mediocre films is rather a festival whose medium is as important as the message. The standard of work screened is excellent and the stories told are always delivered in engaging high-quality work which stands in its own right.
www.creativescotland.comThe Guardian, 18 September 2010
Want to save the world but not sure where to start? This festival should at least give you some pointers, if not rouse you into action. Its mission is to bring together audiences, film-makers and activists and to highlight pressing global issues through film. There's no shortage of material. Big issues such as global warming, hunger, the oil industry and Israel-Palestine are well covered in fiction and documentary, but it's not all bad news. There are inspirational stories, such as Persona Non Grata, about a crusader for slum justice in Venezuela, or classic doc Powaqqatsi with a live score, and even a Namibian HIV drama, in which the audience decides the ending.
www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/sep/18/this-weeks-new-film-eventsComing 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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