Writing With Fire

500 W Livingston Street,Orlando FL 32801

25 March, 2022

Description

Meet the fearless women journalists of India's only all-female newspaper. Join Global Peace FIlm Festival, The India Center at UCF and WUCF for a special Indie Lens Pop-Up screening of the Academy Award® nominated feature documentary Writing With Fire. A panel discussion will follow the film. In a media landscape dominated by men, the women journalists of India’s all-female Khabar Lahariya (“News Wave”) newspaper risk it all, including their own safety, to cover the country’s political, social, and local news from a women-powered perspective. From underground network to independent media empire—now with 10 million views on their YouTube site—they defy the odds to redefine power. The Global Peace Film Festival, established in 2003, uses the power of the moving image to further the cause of peace on earth. From the outset, the GPFF envisioned “peace” not as the absence of conflict but as a framework for channeling, processing and resolving conflict through respectful and non-violent means. People of good faith have real differences that deserve to be discussed, debated and contested. GPFF works to connect expression – artistic, political, social and personal – to positive, respectful vehicles for action and change. The festival program is carefully curated to create a place for open dialogue, using the films as catalysts for change.