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

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

 
… 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

At Hot Docs in Toronto, North America’s largest documentary festival, The Devil Operation received two standing ovations at sold-out screenings. Each presentation had over 300 people in attendance and the festival invited Father Marco to present the film. This August the film premiered in Asia at Korea’s prestigious EIDF festival, held by the country’s public Continue Reading

 
[HotDocs.ca, text: Sarafina DiFelice] “The story of how Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff rose to power and subsequently fell from grace is fascinating enough as a study in the disruptive power of money and how it so effortlessly undermines the American democratic process. But by plucking out the scandalous events surrounding Abramoff, including million-dollar swindle schemes Continue Reading

About the FDCL blog on realeyz.tv - the news here is that our posts (1-2 per week) will be available in the future in German only and in English if the source material is in that language. Based on the experiences gained since starting the blog in mid-February, it has become clear that translating all Continue Reading

Ok, he’s already used to being followed. But that was back before he became politically involved, when he was still a priest who fought together with GRUFIDES activists for the rights of small farmers in the region. Farmers who were in conflict with the Yanacocha mining company over water and land rights (= their sustenance).
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