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Tonight!
Collision! Free Speech and Religion.
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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.
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"Collision!
Free Speech and Religion" with Jacob Mchangama (Trailer)
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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
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Terry Glavin to Present on the
Crisis in Syria at the
4th Annual Free Thinking Festival!
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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
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Major Events/Speakers
4th Annual Free Thinking Film Festival 2013
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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.
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Trailer
for the 4th Annual Free Thinking Film Festival 2013
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How to Buy Tickets for the
Free Thinking Film Festival
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