{"id":8896,"date":"2010-03-08T18:06:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T18:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=8896"},"modified":"2012-04-25T17:29:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T16:29:27","slug":"what-you-don%e2%80%99t-get-to-see-libels-impact-on-documentary-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=8896","title":{"rendered":"PAST EVENT: What you don\u2019t get to see: Libel&#8217;s impact on documentary film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UK film-makers join the Libel Reform campaign for a free event highlighting the impact our libel laws have on British films and documentaries<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Thursday 11 March, 6:30pm at Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, London, EC1R 3GA<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is a FREE event. Phone 0207 324 2570 or email: bookings@freewordonline.com, to book your place.<\/p>\n<p><em>Speakers include:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tracy Worcester<\/strong> is a documentary film maker who directed and produced the film \u2018<a title=\"Pig Business\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pigbusiness.co.uk\">Pig Business<\/a>\u2019. During the making of her film, Tracey was threatened with libel actions, and spent months re-editing her work. She will talk about how English libel law has affected her work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher Hird<\/strong> is a leading figure in UK independent documentary making. He runs\u00a0<a title=\"Dartmouth films\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dartmouthfilms.com\/who_we_are\">Dartmouth Films<\/a>, chairs the Channel Four Britdoc Foundation and a board member of Index on Censorship.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Duncan Campbell <\/strong>is an investigative journalist and filmmaker who specialises in privacy, civil liberties and secrecy issues. He has faced successive libel actions for 20 years. In 1976, he was the first journalist to reveal the existence of intelligence agency GCHQ. As a result, the government made a failed attempt to jail him for up to 30 years for breaking official secrecy laws.<\/p>\n<p>The event will include the screening of an extract from the film \u2018Pig Business\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11 March: What you don\u2019t get to see. Film-makers Tracy Worcester, Christopher Hird and Duncan Campbell discuss libel&#8217;s impact on documentary film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"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\/8896"}],"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\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8896"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8908,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8896\/revisions\/8908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}