The Public Health Film Festival kicked off this year with the Academy Awarding winning film Dallas Buyers Club, followed by reflections on the film by Akshay Khanna, a human rights lawyer and queer activist along with Salla Sariola, a researcher from the Global Health Bioethics Network. They touched upon the ideas of queer identity in the film and its…
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Professor John Ashton, President of the Faculty of Public Health in the UK, welcome the Public Health Film Festival and calls for more imaginative ways of engaging the public in debate about the public health problems we face today.
Saturday 28th June, 15.30 Radcliffe Humanities Building Unborn – https://vimeo.com/36184574. A selection of films from House on the Hill Productions A selection of films from the International Red Cross Followed by a talk from Christopher Nicholas, Audiovisual Producer for the International Committee of the Red Cross, and audience Q&A Sunday 29th June, 12.45 Radcliffe…
Friday 27th June, 20.30 Radcliffe Humanities Building Akshay Khanna works on the intersections of anthropology, activism and development praxis and is a founder member of Prism, a Delhi-based queer activist collective, and has worked as a human rights lawyer, focusing on issues arising out of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and contributed to drafting the law against…
Sunday 29th June, 12.45 At this year’s festival there will be a special screening for families, followed by an afternoon of fun activities aimed at engaging kids of all ages to learn about their own health and well-being: 11.00 Screening of Disney’s WALL-E, Phoenix Picturehouse Cinema, Oxford “Health Promotion for the future generation”…
Saturday 28th June, 15.30 Radcliffe Humanities Building Learn from Gary Black, a leading specialist in film and public health from the USA, how to make your own films using just a smart phone, the internet and free software. This session is limited to 25 people. Gary Black is a Public Communications Professional from Meckleburg County,…