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SUMMARY:Challenging Documentaries: Alternative Perspectives\, Ethical Film
 making and Creative Development - Taghi Amirani\, Clive Patterson and Tom 
 Feiling
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DESCRIPTION:Taghi Amirani made his directorial debut in 1989 on Channel 4 
 with ‘Earth Calling Basingstoke’ a quirky look at the extraterrestrial
  lives of English amateur astronomers. He has since made 35 films\, one fi
 ction short\, and a handful of commercials. Among his documentaries are 
 ‘The Dispossessed’\, shot in a Taliban controlled refugee camp in 2001
 \, and ‘Watch This Space’ about the historic comet crash of 1994.  Tag
 hi has been a jury member at the International Emmys\, Royal Television So
 ciety\, One World Media Awards and Sheffield DocFest. In 2010 he was award
 ed a TED Senior Fellowship. \n\nClive Patterson\nAfter graduating from uni
 versity and spending 3 1/2 years travelling and living abroad\, Clive unde
 rtook a 2 month placement at October Films in 2008\, before being taken on
  by Insight News TV as an intern. Within a year he had co-produced his fir
 st news feature for BBC Newsnight. This was quickly followed by a document
 ary for Al- Jazeera International called ‘Return to Rwanda’\, which he
  produced\, co-filmed and edited. His latest project is a Channel 4 Dispat
 ches on homosexuality in Africa\, for which he is Associate Producer.\n\nT
 om Feiling\nTom is a writer\, journalist and documentary filmmaker. He spe
 nt a year living and working in Colombia before making Resistencia: Hip-Ho
 p in Colombia\, which won numerous awards at film festivals around the wor
 ld\, and was broadcast in four countries. In 2003 he became Campaigns Dire
 ctor for the TUC's Justice for Colombia campaign\, which organizes for hum
 an rights in Colombia. In 2009\, Penguin Books published his first book\, 
 The Candy Machine: How Cocaine Took over the World. \n\nRegister at www.ca
 m-era.org
LOCATION:NCR\, Corpus Christi College\,Cambridge
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