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FORBIDDEN VOICES

FORBIDDEN VOICES

by The Daily Eye Team December 11 2013, 5:00 pm Estimated Reading Time: 1 min, 4 secs

Synopsis

Their voices are suppressed, prohibited and censored. But influential cyber feminists from Cuba, China and Iran keep blogging about the dictatorial regimes in their countries. Putting their lives at great risk, these fearless women stand for a new, networked generation of modern rebels who use social media like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter as their tools to denounce and combat the violations of human rights and freedom of speech in their countries.

Festivals & Awards
Winner- Amnesty International Award Human Rights Film Festival San Sebastián, 2013
Nominated – Best Documentary, Swiss Film Award, 2013
Winner – WACC-SIGNIS Human Rights Award, 2013
Vox Feminae Festival, Zagreb, Croatia, 2013
Moscow Journfest, Moscow, Russia, 2013
SIAMO PARI! Film Festival, Milan, Italy, 2013
Half The Sky Film & Arts Festival, Nepal, 2013
Kino Orion Dübendorf, Switzerland, 2013

Director’s Statements

Director’s Bio
BARBARA MILLER was born in Switzerland. She studied cinema sciences, philosophy, psychology and law. She worked as assistant director on the Oscar nominated documentary War Photographer. Since 2001 she is working as documentary director for Swiss National TV and directed over ten critically acclaimed 50-minute documentaries on a variety of socially oriented subjects, ranging from the Anti-Globalization Movement to Domestic Violence, Youth Violence to The Clitoris. Forbidden Voices is her first feature length documentary.

Links
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Piroj Wadia


PIROJ WADIA is a journalist of long standing, she was Assistant Editor for Cine Blitz and  The Daily,  and   edited TV & Video World, India’s first & only authentic television magazine. She is  equally ardent about television as  she is about films, and critiques both. She has been keenly watching and observing television since the 1990s and has witnessed the industry’s growth and sea changes.   She has  served on the jury for the Indian Television Academy (ITA)  and the  Indian Documentary Producers’ Association (IDPA); and on the script committee of the Children’s Film Society, India (CFSI). Currently, she is  researching on the contribution of the Parsis to Indian cinema.


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