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The Day After Peace: 192 and Beyond...
Kiribati, the small island nation that straddles the equator in the central Pacific Ocean and is bordered on its eastside by the International Date Line, will be one of the first countries to begin its celebration of Peace Day, on 21 September. There, at the University of South Pacific, Kiribati campus, they will gather in the ‘maneaba' - a type of traditional public meeting house - for a screening of the documentary film, The Day After Peace.
Produced in association with the BBC and Passion Pictures, The Day After Peace charts Jeremy Gilley, filmmaker and founder of Peace One Day, on his extraordinary 10-year journey to establish 21 September as Peace Day, a day of global cease-fire and non-violence. To date, the film has been licensed for television broadcast in 96 countries and screened at more 70 international film festivals.
And this year, Peace One Day has launched its ‘192 and Beyond Screening Campaign' to manifest Peace Day screenings of the film in all 192 member states of the United Nations.
Already, individuals and organizations from more than 170 nations have offered to host screenings on or around Peace Day. "Simply screening the film is an incredible gesture," says Gilley. "It doesn't matter where it is played - it can be at a school, a sitting room, or a cinema."
In addition to classrooms, traditional theatres, and living spaces inside individuals' homes, screenings are currently being planned for an even broader array of settings, including: cinema club screening rooms; restaurants; gardens; museums; bars and nightclubs; refugee centers; waiting rooms of physician offices and treatment centers; prisons; parks; yoga centers; and, company cafeterias.
Slum Cinema, a project that uses documentary films as a way to improve information in slums and other deprived areas, screened The Day After Peace on a number of occasions, in 2008, and is currently planning to screen the film in Kenya, Zimbabwe, Uganda Kampala, and Surinam, on Peace Day 2009. Gerard Bueters, Managing Director of the BasicViews Foundation, which oversees Slum Cinema, recently said, "I think The Day After Peace provides a great example of what can be accomplished through the efforts of just one individual. And this idea to screen the film on Peace Day is a tremendous statement to the world."
We would like to offer a FREE DVD to the first individual, group or organisation from each country to approach us wishing to screen the film to 21 people or more on Peace Day 21 September. We are still missing a few countries. If you can commit to a screening in one of these countries on Peace Day, with a minimum of 21 people present, you qualify for the free film. Screenings still need to be organized in the following countries: Algeria, Central African Republic, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, DPR Korea, Greece, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Kuwait, Mauritania, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tunisia, and Turkey.
Those interested in helping to reach the milestone should check the ‘192 and Beyond Screening Campaign' page on the Peace One Day website, and make your commitment to host a screening.
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