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We were delighted to welcome the following guests. We were so excited they agreed to contribute to making this first year of the festival so interesting, inspiring and dynamic.
See overview of the particiapants in the daily thematic discussions by clicking here.
Opening
Erik Rudeng - Director Freedom of Expression Foundation, Oslo
Erling Borgen - Film director. The focus of a retrospective on the 3rd, including films that had real impact on Norwegian businesses, and a film never screened in Norway before.
Guests from abroad
Hubert Sauper - Director of Darwin's Nightmare the film that has been voted as the best documentary of the last 20 years. Also of Kisangani Diary 1998 (not screening at festival) a terryfying picture of 80,000 lost Hutu refugees in eastern DR Congo - all too relevant for what is still going on today.
Shaheen Dill-Riaz - Bangladesh. Director Ironeaters. Knows the conditions and background of the ship-breaking yards.
Kalsang Dolma - Tibet/Canada. Filmmaker What Remains of Us.
Rex Bloomstein - UK. Director, An Independent Mind. Has made many films about human rights, independently and for the BBC. Participating in Freedom of Expression discussion 6th Dec.
Faraj Bayrakdar - Syria (now Sweden). Journalist/poet featured in An Independent Mind. He was imprisoned for 15 years because of the political nature of his writing; he was subjected to regular and severe torture during this time.
Farid Tukhbatullin - Turkmenistan (now Austria). Human rights activist and former political prisoner. Appearing in Shadow of the Holy Book.
Ingvild Jenssen - NGO Platform on Shipbreaking, Brussels, working to prevent human rights abuses and environmental injustice linked to toxic waste on board end-of-life vessels.
Charles Mukandirwa- DR Congo (refugee in Denmark). Human Rights Defender. Participating in Oppression Discussion, 5th Dec. and introducing Shockwaves.
Tom Heinemann - Denmark, Director of Et Tårn av Løfter, the film that revealed the working conditions of the suppliers to Telenor in Bangladesh.
Annette Carlsen - Denmark, Mohammed Cartoonist
Guests from Norway
Jan Helgesen - Participating in Freedom of Expression discussion 6th Dec.
Anne Hege Simonsen - Senior lecturer in journalism, University College Oslo. Introducing Slavery
Jon Wessel-Aas- Lawyer at NRK. Introducing Freedom of Expression
Halle Jørn Hanssen - Previously NRK correspondant in East Africa and Secretary General for Norsk Folkehjelp. Introducing Taking Root
Jan Borgen - Secretary General Transparency International, Norway, introducing Dictator Hunter
Kristin Holter - Director Initiativ for Etisk Handel, introducing China Blue
Morten Bøås Regional Coordinator for Africa, FAFO, introducing Shockwaves.
Joakim Sharp-Bergersen - researcher at UMB on Burma, previous advisor to UNDP in Laos, introducing Total Denial
Jon Peder Egenæs - Amnesty International, participating in Activist Discussion 7th Dec.
Øystein Alme- Voice of Tibet, introducing Undercover in Tibet.
Nora Sveaass- Psychologist, Norway's representative on UN Committe on Torture. Participating in Oppression Discussion 5th Dec.
Mari Linløkken, Anti-racism Centre. Participating in Activist Discussion 7th Dec.
Sten Inge Jørgensen- Morgenbladet. Moderating Oppression Discussion 5th Dec
Maria Gjølberg - Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo. Participating in Business and Human Rights Discussion 4th Dec
Ola Mestad -Professor of Law at University of Oslo and member of the Council on Ethics (Etikkrådet), Norwegian Government Pension Fund. Participating in Business and Human Rights Discussion 4th Dec
Stian Antonsen - Leader of Skeiv Ungdom. Participating in Activists Discussion Sun 7th Dec
Safia Yusuf Abdi - Somali from Kenya working for Norsk sykepleierforbund and Mangfold i Arbeidslivet (Diversity at Work). Participating in Activists Discussion, 7th Dec, with relationship to A Walk to Beautiful.
Alexandra Wacko, Masters student at University of Oslo, speaking after Lesson in Belorussian Sun 7th Dec
Daria Shuk, Belarusian exchange student currently at University of Oslo, speaking after Lesson in Belorussian Sun 7th Dec
Elisabeth Nordfjord Kristelig Folkepartis Youth Section, speaking after Lesson in Belorussian Sun 7th Dec
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DID YOU MISS THE FOLLOWING?
Erling Borgen talking about the role of documentary film in human rights, and how controversial his films became in Norway, and Tom Heinemann answering questions about the Telenor film: Et Tårn av Løfter
Hubert Sauper director of Darwin's Nightmare - voted best documentary film of the last twenty years
Faraj Bayrakdar and Rex Bloomstein talking about the methods governments use to suffocate freedom of expression
Shaheen Dill-Riaz and Ingvild Jenssen explaining the effects of transporting toxic waste to developing countries
Farid Tukhbatullin talking about what is going on in one of the most closed countires in the world, one that StatoilHydro is giong to start in in 2009- Turkmenistan
Charles Mukandirwa who is a refugee from the conflict nightmare that DR Congo has been for many years, and which is now in the media due to worsening of conditions still further.
Kalsang Dolma and Øystein Alme giving a voice to what is going on inside Tibet- a place from where very little information gets out.
Jan Borgen knows Reed Brody- the Dictator Hunter. Come and hear how these lawyers work with human rights.
Kristin Holter who knows just how much company profiling is spin and how much is hidden from the public eye.
Jon Wessel Aas who works on the legal restrictions for free speech in the Norwegian media- how free are we to express ourselves?
Halle Jørn Hanssen who knows Wangari Mathaai. He worked in Kenya for NRK and has long experience from East Africa
Nora Sveaass who has recently returned from leading the UN Torture Commission through an anlaysis of the psychological effects of oppression in Kenya and China
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