Miners Shot Down nominated for Cinema for Peace Award

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Miners Shot Down nominated for Cinema for Peace Award --

Tue, 27 Jan 2015 11:10

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Miners Shot Down, a documentary by Rehad Desai which documents the Marikana miners strike in 2012, has been nominated for the Cinema for Peace Award and will feature at the Luxor African Film Festival in Egypt and FESPACO in Burkina Faso.

We are overjoyed about the prospect of millions of Africans seeing this story on TV sets and in local cinemas. Both of these festivals are highly respected and this will give further exposure to one of South Africa s most important events in the post- apartheid period, commented Desai.

The Cinema for Peace Gala in Berlin will take place in Berlin on 9 February 2015.

The annual event aims to raise awareness of the social relevance of film and to make active use of the influence of movies and documentaries on the perception and resolution of the global social, political and humanitarian challenges of our time. In recent years Cinema for Peace has also established itself in New York, Los Angeles and Cannes, and has supported a number of important causes with the help of artists such as Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio, Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman, Charlize Theron and personalities such as the Dalai Lama, Muhammad Ali, Bill and Hillary Clinton, president Mikhail Gorbachev and our former Honorary Patron Nelson Mandela.

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