The Persian Gulf holds many attractions for the intrepid traveler, but I’ve already made up my mind: for a media junkie, no visit to Qatar can be complete without a trip to the Al Jazeera TV channel headquarters in downtown Doha. Full story

A view of the city of Doha

 Posted by Stephanie Boyd
It feels like I’ve won the lottery. A documentary I made about Peruvian farmers standing up to US and British-owned mining companies has been selected for the Al Jazeera International Documentary Film Festival in Doha, Qatar. Suddenly I find myself far from my Andean mountain home Continue Reading

 
… in Chorolque. That’s the location of the film Daughter of Chorolque, which the FDCL sponsors with a film partnership on realeyz.tv. The film tells the story – in fascinating and at times breathtaking images - of the difficult lives of the women who earn their living for themselves and their children in the mines Continue Reading

Growth is the plan – and the goal is production capacity of 7 million fine ounces of gold (currently at $ 1,500 per ounce) by 2017 at the latest. Production is now at about 5 million ounces and the projected increase should mainly occur in Latin America, in Peru and Surinam. The sensitive natural balance Continue Reading

On this day March 31 in the year 2001, Godofredo García Bacas was killed.The truth behind his murder has not been adequately explained to this day.  But that hasn’t stopped the resistance against the Canadian mining company Manhattan and the Peruvian state institutions that are party to the problems. That the resistance goes on is Continue Reading

 
… once again, the Movie that Matters Film Festivaltook place again this year in Den Haag - a city in Holland that is also the headquarters of important international tribunals and courts. The main section of the film festival  A Matter of Act highlights the dangerous and important work by human rights advocates from around Continue Reading

Auditorium Arditi, Geneva

  An audience of nearly 600 watched The Devil Operation at the Auditorium Arditi in Genf at the closing festivities of the FIFDH film festival.  Stephanie Boyd und Marco Arana can be seen here in the picture on the left as they deliver a thank you speech. Their film was awarded a ‘Special Mention’ Continue Reading

The Film Festival and International Forum for Human Rights (FIFDH) in Geneva offers not only films but also live debates.  Anyone interested can watch the debates in their entirety in the Live Debates section. The themes: Right to be a Roma, Human Rights Are Not Negotiable, Europe under the Boot of Populism or What’s after Continue Reading

Father Marco Arana (pictured here with Bianca Jagger), the Catholic priest who supports indigenous Peruvians in protecting their eco-system in opposition to foreign mining companies, received the Cinema for Peace Human Rights Award.
Arana and the surveillance operation and intimidation campaign mounted against him are the subjects of Stephanie Boyd’s (CHOROPAMPA, TAMBOGRANDE, co-directed with Ernesto Cabellos) Continue Reading

… We didn’t just sit around in cafés or tour exciting cities like Dresden, covered as they were in late November snow slush!! No, no, we were too busy. And if you don’t believe it, then take a look at at the taz newspaper Bewegung (movement) platform. There’s not only a nice gallery of photos Continue Reading