The festival
Documentary and Disability, 2nd International Festival - Athens 2008
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The 2nd Emotion Pictures International Documentary Festival on Disability was held between 21-23 June 2008, at the New Benaki Museum for Contemporary Art and Design.
The festival, composed of documentary films focusing exclusively on issues of disability, was once again organized by the Secretariat General of Communication - Secretariat General of Information, in collaboration with the Greek Film Centre. Film director Maria Chatzimichali-Papaliou was the festival's artistic director.
The aims and objectives of the festival remained the same, those being, the use of documentary films as a medium that puts on the map issues of disability by artists form around the world and walks of life; to increase public awareness and promote the inclusion of disabled people, whilst further encouraging the media and film-makers, disabled or not, to take an active interest in this area and address the widest possible public.
The message that the festival focused on communicating is accepting and embracing difference.
- See the Festival spot on YouTube.
- Download the Festival flyer (PDF document, 463 KB)
- Download the Festival poster (PDF document, 510 KB)
December 3 - Festival Spot on TV
EMOTION PICTURES participated in the celebration of the International Day of People with Disabilities with a television spot on all the major Greek networks that broadcast nationally.
