Thursday, October 31, 2013

Tonight! Collision: Free Speech and Religion - Opening of the 4th Annual Free Thinking Film Festival 2013



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Tonight!
Collision!  Free Speech and Religion.


Library & Archives, Main Auditorium
395 Wellington, Ottawa
7:00 PM

Admission:  $20, or with Festival Pass.  All tickets available at the door.

We will have a private reception after the film, panel discussion and Q&A. And, please come dressed up for Halloween!
This new documentary, written and presented by Danish Human Rights Lawyer Jacob Mchangama, focuses on one of the defining issues of our time; the global battle of values over the relationship between free speech and religious sensitivities. Recent years have seen increasing demands that free speech should be limited to respect religious feelings. In a globalized world this conflict has become explosive as cartoons published in Denmark and videos uploaded in America have led to violent riots from Cairo to Karachi. The outcome of this battle, says Mchangama, will have profound consequences for the ability of people everywhere to freely express themselves and follow their beliefs.
"Collision! Free Speech and Religion" with Jacob Mchangama (Trailer)


Followed by a panel discussion with Jacob Mchangama, David Kilgour, Terry Glavin, and Joseph Ben-Ami.
Jacob Mchangama is director of the Freedom Rights Project and director of legal affairs CEPOS a think tank in Copenhagen. He has published articles and commented on freedom of expression and human rights in Foreign Affairs, The Economist, Wall Street Journal Europe, The Times (UK), NPR, CBS.com, Jerusalem Post, National Review, South China Morning Post, Jyllands-Posten and many other places. In 2013 he was awarded the Danish Liberal Party's Freedom Award. He is the author and presenter of the video op-ed "Collision! Free speech and religion" which was released in May 2013 and has been mentioned in international media including The Economist and National Review.

"Jacob Mchangama and the Free To Choose Network have pulled off an amazing feat: they have produced a cool and measured documentary on a subject of great controversy. "Collision" is a poignant defense of free speech, and has a remarkable ability to find the seam between the right to free speech, and the sensibilities of religious believers. A remarkable voice, a presence on camera that is at once soothing and committed to the freedom of ideas."
    Fouad Ajami, Senior Fellow
    The Hoover Institute


Terry Glavin to Present on the
Crisis in Syria at the
4th Annual Free Thinking Festival!



The Free Thinking Film Society is proud to announce that award-winning Ottawa
Citizen columnist Terry Glavin will be presenting on the crisis in Syria at the 4th Annual Free Thinking Film Festival in Ottawa.




Glavin's presentation will be on Saturday, November 2nd at 2:15 PM in the Main Auditorium of the Library & Archives Canada.
Earlie this month, Glavin spent two weeks visiting the various Syrian refugee camps in Jordan.  A 4-part series on the Syrian exodus and what it means for the region, for the world and for Syria's future, will be running this week in the Ottawa Citizen.
Terry Glavin is a co-founder of the Canada-Afghanistan Solidarity Committee, is the author of six books, and the co-author of four, traversing subjects from anthropology to natural history.  He has won more than a dozen writing awards, including the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize and the British Columbia Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence, and is now a columnist for the Ottawa Citizen.

The Free Thinking Film Society was established in 2007 in Ottawa to celebrate the efforts of risk-taking documentarians whose work espouses the values of limited, democratic government, free market economies, equality of opportunity rather than equality of result, and the dignity of the individual, all underscored by a healthy and patriotic respect for Western culture and traditions. 

The 4th Annual Free Thinking Film Festival starts on October 31st and runs through November 3rd at the Libary & Archives Canada.  Tickets to see Terry Glavin, and all films and events can be purchases at the door.  Tickets start at $12 and a Festival Pass (to see everything) is just $80.  For further information, please visit our website www.freethinkingfilmfest.ca
 



Major Events/Speakers 
4th Annual Free Thinking Film Festival 2013 

There's a ton of great films, speakers, book launches and panel discussions at the 4th Annual Free Thinking Festival 2013.  Here are the highlights:
  • An Evening with Barbara Kay - one of Canada's finest columnists.  Meet her in person and get her book autographed.
  • An explosive evening on China Cyber Spying.  On Saturday, November 2nd, we'll have a new film about China cyber spying in Australia, followed by an incredible panel of experts - including Brian Shields, who oversaw IT security at Nortel, and Richard Bejtlich, Chief Security Officer for Mandiant Corporation, the company that actually identified the exact buildings the Chinese spy from.
  • Comedy at the Festival - Comedian Rodney Ramsey will be presenting his films making fun of the crazy language police in Quebec.  We also have two comedy documentaries - "The Sheik and I" about a filmmaker who exposes the lack of free speech in the United Arab Emirates; and "The Ambassador" about the selling of diplomatic titles in the Central African Republic.
  • 2 Book launches - Barbara Kay's new book "Acknowledgements" and Elizabeth Nickson's "Eco-Fascists:  How Conservationists are ruining our environment."  Get both of these book autographed.
  • Orchestra of Exiles:  An amazing film about how one violinist saved the best Jewish musicians during WWII and brought them all to Palestine.
  • Broken Soldiers:  A documentary on how Canada's vets aren't getting the treatment they deserve.
  • "Collision:  Free Speech and Religion", a film and panel discussion on the intersection of religion and free speech.  Joining us on the panel will be Danish human rights lawyer Jacob Mchangama, Ottawa Citizen columnist Terry Glavin, and one of the most active person in Ottawa working on democracy, David Kilgour.
  • We'll end the Festival on a positive note with the film, "Delicious Peace Grows in a Ugandan Coffee Bean", a film about a coffee coop in Uganda where Christians, Muslims and Jews work together in harmony.  Our guest speaker for the evening will be J.J. Keki, the leader of the Jewish Abayudaya Community.  And, we'll be serving his Ugandan coffee at the reception afterwards.
Plus, lot's more.

Here's how to get tickets.  You can buy festival passes right now at Compact Music (785 Bank, 206 Bank).  You can also buy Festival Passes, Day Passes for Saturday or Sunday, or passes for individual events on Tickweb.ca.  We will also be selling tickets at the door as well.

Trailer for the 4th Annual Free Thinking Film Festival 2013
Trailer for the 4th Annual Free Thinking Film Festival 2013







How to Buy Tickets for the Free Thinking Film Festival

Tickets will be available at the door.

Festival passes are now on sale at Compact Music (785 Bank, 206 Bank).

You can buy Festival passes ($80), Saturday day Passes ($30), Sunday Day Passes ($30), Individual film tickets ($12), or for the 4 big gala events ($20) online at Ticketweb.ca.










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