RAI Film Festival 2023

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As Chair of the RAI Film Committee, Judith Aston, Associate Prof in Film and Digital Arts, would like to draw your attention to this upcoming Film Festival on-line and here in Bristol.

The RAI Film Festival showcases the best in ground-breaking and innovative documentary filmmaking from around the world.

RAI Film Festival 2023 will take place online globally from 3-31 March and in Bristol from 22-25 March.

Highlights in Bristol include a screening and live Q&A with acclaimed Vietnamese Director, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and an in-conversation between Abenaki American-Canadian filmmaker, Alanis Obomsawin, and indigenous media scholar Faye Ginsburg.

There will also be an XR roundtable featuring five multisensory and immersive works by emerging creators and Judith will be convening a workshop on her Polyphonic Documentary project, which has grown out of her ongoing work with i-Docs.

Alongside the Festival there is also a Conference taking place on-line from 6-10^th March on the theme of Visual Anthropology and Speculative Futures.

Highlights for this include a retrospective with observational filmmaker David MacDougall, an in-conversation with Kat Cizek about Collective Wisdom; Co-creating Media for Equity and Justice, and a keynote with Sarah Pink, Director of the Emerging Technologies Lab at Monash University.

The Festival is truly global and has a strong anti-racist theme. It gives access to some films currently doing the rounds on the main documentary festival circuit and others which attendees are unlikely to see anywhere else.

There will also be a limited number of individual tickets available for the main screenings and events available to the public via the Watershed Box Office.