Another successful collaboration with The Frontline Club sees Curzon’s documentary strand hosting Rex Bloomfield’s (KZ) new work. Here, the director tackles our most basic right, freedom of speech, and assesses with his sober and humane approach how far many individuals in different countries go in order to preserve this essential right.
DocDays and The Frontline Club present the UK Premiere of AN INDEPENDENT MIND
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Article 19 – Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Director’s statement:
I wanted this to be as global an exercise as possible. It would have been easy to focus on certain parts of the developing world, while ignoring our own Western democracies. But we are also seeing a gradual erosion of this freedom in the West through the broadening in scope of what is deemed ‘unacceptable speech’.
This is an age of extraordinary mass communication, yet Article 19 seems to be an area that is increasingly bitterly contested.
AN INDEPENDENT MIND is a film for our time.
Followed by a Q&A with director Rex Bloomfield hosted by The Frontline Club.