Republican News · Thursday 31 January 2002

Film Festival to show Colombia documentary

A film exposing the United States role in Colombia is to be screened in West Belfast on Thursday 28 November.

'Exposing Plan Colombia will be premiered at the Cultúrlann on the Falls Road at 8pm as part of the éirí Amach film festival presented by Cinilingus and the Falls Community Council

Jaime Meain, a Colombian refugee, will introduce the film, and a spokesperson foor the Bring Them Home Campaign will speak.

The film, written and directed by Anne O'Casey and lasting 40 minutes, features interviews with Colombian guerrilla fighters, trade unionists and activists, this film documentary exposes the story behind one of Latin America's most turbulent countries.

The film festival began on 14 November with the screening of 'Traveller - May The Road Rise Up', which depicts the personal journey of photographer Allen MacWeeney, who returns to Ireland to find Travellers he photographed and recorded 30 years before in Dublin and Galway.

After the screening Mark Donahue of Belfast Travellers Education and development Group said of the film: "The movie 'Into The West' romanticised Travellers as wondering magical people, but this documentary shows Travellers as humans, a people who were struggling with poverty and hardship and still are today."

The third film, Gambling on Europe, a critical documentary about EU immigration policies and economic immigrants, will be shown on Thursday 5 December. It will be introduced by Aengus Ó Snodaigh, TD for Dublin South Central.