{"id":61200,"date":"2014-10-24T14:42:16","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T13:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=61200"},"modified":"2014-11-05T14:17:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T14:17:08","slug":"30-oct-giant-screening-discussion-bfi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=61200","title":{"rendered":"30 Oct: We Are the Giant screening + discussion at BFI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"We are the Giant - Official UK Trailer\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gseD-v1l3x0?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Index on Censorship is partnering with the BFI and others for a screening of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/whatson.bfi.org.uk\/Online\/default.asp?doWork::WScontent::loadArticle=Load&amp;BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::article_id=937F370B-FDFE-4F96-8A8D-B4B7EACCCA2F&amp;BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=2FD3589C-65D5-4CEE-9436-02B5B5F0750B#\">We Are the Giant<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; <\/strong>a documentary featuring inspirational and gripping stories of three\u00a0individuals who spoke their minds during the Arab Spring including Bahraini activist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2014\/10\/bahrain-maryam-al-khawaja-nabeel-rajab-human-rights\/\">Maryam Al-Khawaja<\/a>. The screening will be followed by a discussion featuring Maryam and Index on Censorship&#8217;s Melody Patry.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by award-winning filmmaker Greg Barker and first presented\u00a0at the Sundance Film Festival 2014, We Are the Giant tells the stories of three\u00a0ordinary individuals who are transformed by the critical, moral and personal challenges they encounter when standing up for what they believe is right during the Arab Spring.<\/p>\n<p>The screening will be followed by a panel discussion featuring\u00a0Bahraini human rights activist\u00a0Maryam Al-Khawaja with Greg\u00a0Barker (film director), Kristyan Benedict (Amnesty International) and Melody Patry (Index on Censorship). The chair will be New York Times columnist and Arab spring authority Roger Cohen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEN:<\/strong> Thursday 30th October, 6.20pm<br \/>\n<strong>WHERE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/whatson.bfi.org.uk\/Online\/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=contact\">BFI Southbank, London<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>TICKETS:<\/strong> Available to buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bfi.org.uk\/news-opinion\/news-bfi\/features\/bearing-witness-arab-spring-we-are-giant\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A documentary featuring inspirational and gripping stories of six individuals who spoke their minds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":61216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61200"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61500,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61200\/revisions\/61500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}