Liberation season: sexual taboos, India's women and protest online

Our powerful documentary season begins tomorrow with acclaimed director Sorious Samura's new film Africa's Last Taboo showing the persecution experienced by gay men throughout Africa. A month of talks looking at Protest kicks off on Tuesday with Online Protest: power to the people? exploring the potential of social media to bring about social and political change.

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Liberation Season: Screening - Africa's Last Taboo

Thu 5 Aug, 7pm
£10/£8 early booking

Followed by a Q&A with Director Sorious Samura and Producer/Director Robin Barnwell

What is Africa's last taboo? Emmy award winner and director of Cry Freetown Sorious Samura, brings to light the brutal and little-reported contemporary persecution faced by tens of thousands of African gay men.

Liberation Season: Screening - India's Forgotten Women

Mon 9 Aug, 7pm
£10/£8 early booking

Followed by a Q&A with Director Michael Lawson

India's forgotten women delves into the startling reality of women's lives in India, which are often dictated by ancient rites and customs, alive and thriving within the world's largest democracy.

Online Protest: power to the people?

Tue 10 Aug, 7pm
£12.50/10 early booking

Social media has opened up new ways for people to communicate, organise and campaign. But in what ways are people using social media for political ends? With Benjamin Chesterton, co-founder of duckrabbit; Mike Harris, of Index on Censorship and Libel Reform Campaign and Sina Motalebi, BBC Persian TV head of output and author of one of Iran's first blogs Rooznegar.

Google: friend or foe for news publishers?

Wed 11 Aug, 7pm
£12.50/10 early booking

There's no doubting the power Google: having re-written the online advertising rule-book, its AdSense system is now used to make money by publishers around the world who rely on its search algorithm to drive traffic. But is dealing with Google and search engines an inevitability, or do SEO techniques cheapen journalism?

Where do we go from here? - The closure of the UK Film Council

Thu 12 Aug, 7pm
£12.50/10 early booking

Moderated by Dave Calhoun, Time Out Film editor. Panellists incude Chris Atkins, director of Taking Liberties and Starsuckers; Charlie Phillips, marketplace director, Sheffield Documentary Film Festival and Jamie King, director of Steal This Film and founder of Vodo. Please join us at the Frontline Club for an open discussion on the repercussions of the closure and where it leaves the British film industry.

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