1. About CIJ Film Week

    About Film Week

    Over a week we show a selection of films followed by a question and answer session with the filmmaker.

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  2. Bahrain, the Forbidden Country

    Bahrain, the Forbidden Country
    Tuesday 15 January 2013
    France 2012
    Directors: Stephanie Lamorre
    Producers: Luc Hermann
    Language: French with English subtitles and voice-over
    Duration: 52 min
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  3. The Murder of the Honeybee

    The Murder of the Honeybee
    Wednesday 16 January 2013
    The Netherlands 2011
    Directors: Hetty Nietsch, researcher Manon Blaas
    Producers: Mascha Boogaard, Wendel Hesen
    Language: Dutch with English Subtitles
    Duration: 36 min
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  4. Bloodcoal

    Bloodcoal
    Thursday 17 January 2013
    The Netherlands 2010
    Directors: Sander Rietveld, Siebe Sietsma
    Language: Afrikaans, Dutch, Hindi, Spanish with English subtitles
    Duration: 45 min
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  5. The Poison in our Homes

    The Poison in our Homes
    Friday 18 January 2013
    Romania 2011
    Directors: Andrei Ciurcanu
    Producers: Carmen Avram
    Language: Romanian with English subtitles
    Duration: 22 min
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  6. Law of the Jungle

    Law of the Jungle
    Friday 18 January 2013
    Denmark 2011
    Directors: Hans LaCour, Michael Christoffersen
    Producers: Henrik Underbjerg, Stefan Frost. Co producer Finn Mathiasen
    Language: Spanish with English subtitles
    Duration: 85 min
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  7. Tracked

    Tracked
    Saturday 19 January 2013
    France 2012
    Directors: Paul Moreira
    Producers: Luc Hermann
    Language: Dubbed in English
    Duration: 60 min
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  8. Cotton for my Shroud

    Cotton for my Shroud
    Saturday 19 January 2013
    India 2011
    Directors: Kavita Bahl, Nandan Saxena
    Producers: Kavita Bahl
    Language: Hindi, Marathi and English. English subtitles
    Duration: 75mins
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About CIJ Film Week

15-19 January 2013

Venues: Foreign Press Association at the Commonwealth Club and Oliver Thompson Theatre, City University London

 

Seven exciting investigative documentaries, including six UK premieres were shown during the 2013 CIJ Investigative Film Week: Cotton for My Shroud (India), Bahrain: the Forbidden Country (France), Tracked! (France), The Poison in Our Homes (Romania), Blood Coal (The Netherlands) and The Murder of the Honeybee (The Netherlands) will all be seen in the UK for the first time. Law of the Jungle (Denmark), which has had a limited UK release will also be shown. 

As part of Film Week, we also held a Webdocs Workshop and Screenings. Webdocs is an emerging genre of storytelling: a mixture of documentary filmmaking, data visualisation and computer games. It is becoming an invaluable tool for investigative journalists working for the web. 

The 2013 Investigative Film Week took place in association with the Foreign Press Association.

The event is kindly sponsored by the Lorana Sullivan Foundation.

 

About Investigative Film Week

 

The CIJ held its first investigative film week in 2010 and the event is now an annual feature in the CIJ's calendar. Over a week we show a selection of some of the best investigative documentaries followed by a question and answer session with the filmmaker. This not only gives the audience the chance to watch foreign investigative films rarely seen in the UK, but they also get to find out first hand from the filmmakers how they made the film, their approach and their research methodology.

 

Submissions for the 2014 week are now open.  If you are a filmmaker or simply know of a good investigative film, please contact Juliet Ferguson on juliet@tcij.org

 

CIJ Investigative Film Week 2013 in the media:

 

Investigative Film Week - in The Guardian's Guide
The Murder of the Honeybee by OneWorld - Journalists with Bees in their Bonnets
The Murder of the Honeybee by OneWorld - Honeybee Whodunnit
Bahrain, the Forbidden Country by OneWorld - Bahrain Uprising Through Women's Eyes

Cotton for my Shroud by OneWorld - The Largest Wave of Suicide in History

Tracked by OneWorld - Tracking the Trackers of the Internauts

 

 

 

 

 

Bahrain, the Forbidden Country
UK Premiere
15 Jan 2013 - 6:30pm Duration: 52 min Three destinies, three perspectives from the forgotten country of the Arab Revolution. Bahrain, ruled by the Al Khalifa royal family, is the country that has been forgotten by the West. In the last...
Bahrain, the Forbidden Country 15 Jan 2013 - 6:30pm Duration: 52 min
The Murder of the Honeybee
UK Premiere
16 Jan 2013 - 6:30pm Duration: 36 min The critical level of bee mortality is a major threat to our food supply. Eighty percent of all plants on earth depend on pollination by bees for reproduction and evolution. Of all the countries in...
The Murder of the Honeybee 16 Jan 2013 - 6:30pm Duration: 36 min
Bloodcoal
UK Premiere
17 Jan 2013 - 6:30pm Duration: 45 min The Netherlands is Europe’s largest importer of carboncoal for power stations.The coal is mainly imported from Colombia and South Africa where the world’s leading companies...
Bloodcoal 17 Jan 2013 - 6:30pm Duration: 45 min
The Poison in our Homes
UK Premiere
18 Jan 2013 - 6:00pm Duration: 22 min In the heart of the Romanian city of Turda only a short distance from the international tourist attraction Salina Turda (Turda Saltmines), on the ruins of a former chemical plant, children and adults...
The Poison in our Homes 18 Jan 2013 - 6:00pm Duration: 22 min
Law of the Jungle
18 Jan 2013 - 7:30pm Duration: 85 min In 2008, the Peruvian government divided 70% of the country into more than 100 blocks. It then sold the rights to exploit this land, much of it precious rainforest, to multinational companies. In...
Law of the Jungle 18 Jan 2013 - 7:30pm Duration: 85 min
Tracked
UK Premiere
19 Jan 2013 - 2:00pm Duration: 60 min Internet technology made the Arab spring possible. It also enabled the outside world to see whatwas happening in the otherwise closed countries like Libya and Syria. But there is another side to...
Tracked 19 Jan 2013 - 2:00pm Duration: 60 min
Cotton for my Shroud
UK Premiere
19 Jan 2013 - 4:00pm Duration: 75mins Cotton for my Shroud investigates the ongoing farmer suicide crisis in India and the culpability of the multinational Monsanto and the Indian government. It examines the strategy of multinational...
Cotton for my Shroud 19 Jan 2013 - 4:00pm Duration: 75mins
Presumed Guilty Antonio Zuniga was a 26-year-old street vendor and aspiring dancer/rapper when in December 2005 police grabbed him off a Mexico City street and shoved him into a police car. For 48 hours he was put...
Presumed Guilty 25 Jan 2012 - 6:30pm Duration: 87 min
Gasland "The largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history has swept across the United States." The Halliburton-developed drilling technology of "fracking" or hydraulic fracturing...
Gasland 26 Jan 2012 - 6:30pm Duration: 98 min
Blood in the Mobile We love our cell phones and the selection between different models has never been bigger. But the production of phones has a dark, bloody side. The main part of minerals used to produce cell phones...
Blood in the Mobile 27 Jan 2012 - 6:30pm Duration: 80 min
The Whistleblower Based on a true story, Kathy Bolkovac (Academy Award-winner Rachel Weisz) is a Nebraskan police officer who takes a job working for the United Nations as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. Her...
The Whistleblower 28 Jan 2012 - 4:00pm Duration: 112 min
Panorama: Undercover Care On the top floor of a special hospital, locked away from their families and friends, a group of men and women are subjected to a regime of physical assaults, systematic brutality, and torture by the...
Panorama: Undercover Care 29 Jan 2012 - 2:00pm Duration: 60 min
Bahrain, the Forbidden Country Three destinies, three perspectives from the forgotten country of the Arab Revolution. Bahrain, ruled by the Al Khalifa royal family, is the country that has been forgotten by the West. In the last...
Bahrain, the Forbidden Country 15 Jan 2013 - 6:30pm Duration: 52 min
The Murder of the Honeybee The critical level of bee mortality is a major threat to our food supply. Eighty percent of all plants on earth depend on pollination by bees for reproduction and evolution. Of all the countries in...
The Murder of the Honeybee 16 Jan 2013 - 6:30pm Duration: 36 min
Bloodcoal The Netherlands is Europe’s largest importer of carboncoal for power stations.The coal is mainly imported from Colombia and South Africa where the world’s leading companies...
Bloodcoal 17 Jan 2013 - 6:30pm Duration: 45 min
The Poison in our Homes In the heart of the Romanian city of Turda only a short distance from the international tourist attraction Salina Turda (Turda Saltmines), on the ruins of a former chemical plant, children and adults...
The Poison in our Homes 18 Jan 2013 - 6:00pm Duration: 22 min
Law of the Jungle In 2008, the Peruvian government divided 70% of the country into more than 100 blocks. It then sold the rights to exploit this land, much of it precious rainforest, to multinational companies. In...
Law of the Jungle 18 Jan 2013 - 7:30pm Duration: 85 min

Bookings

£5 or £4 - concs, except Cotton for my Shroud: £8 (£7 concs) and includes the reception. Cash only on the door.

The Venues

The 2013 film week will take place in two locations: the Foreign Press Association at the Commonwealth Club and the Oliver Thompson Theatre, City University London.
 

The Foreign Press Association
The Commonwealth Club
25 Northumberland Avenue
London, WC2N 5AP

 


Map to The Foreign Press Association

 

By Tube
Charing Cross on the Northern and Bakerloo lines and Embankment on the District line.

 

By Bus
Routes 3, 6, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 23, 24, 29, 53, 87, 88, 91, 139, 159, 176, 453 pass nearby.

 

Oliver Thompson Theatre
City University London
Northampton Squere
London, EC1V 0HB

 

The Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre is in The Tait Building on Northampton Square. It is bordered by Spencer Street and Goswell Street.

 


Map to City University London

 

By Tube
Angel on the Northern line (City branch) and Farringdon on the Metropolitan, Hammersmith and City and Circle lines.

 

By Bus
Routes 4, 19, 30, 38, 43, X43, 55, 56, 73, 153, 214, 243, 341, 505 pass nearby.

 

By Car
Parking in the roads surrounding the university is on parking meters. The nearest National Car Park to Northampton Square is on Skinner Street, off St John Street.