Alborada presents a screening of the documentary:

MST: Landless Farmers and the Biggest March in Brazilian History
(Director Gibby Zobel, 69min)

Followed by a Q&A with the director.

**Monday 19th October, 6.30pm-8.45pm
The Compass (Function Room), London
Full details below

Synopsis
In 2005, 12,000 people walked the 240km from Goiania to Brasilia, on the longest march in Brazilian history. They were members of the Brazilian Landless Farmers' Movement, the MST, revered as one of the most successful and dynamic social movements in the world, who had come from all over the country for the demonstration. Recording the event was British journalist and filmmaker Gibby Zobel, who turned his footage into the documentary, MST: Landless Farmers and the Biggest March in Brazilian History. 'A social movement as important as the MST deserves more than just brutal stereotyping', says Gibby. Determined to shed some light on the MST, he accompanied the march from dawn till dusk for 17 days, discovering the stories behind the red flags, from landless families, to regional and national coordinators. His work didn’t stop there; after the march had finished, Gibby travelled over 15,000km by bus, to find the people he had met on the road to Brasilia, and see if the march had made a difference to their lives. The result is a polemic, poetic and powerful insight into the MST, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year.

Event details:
Monday October 19th, 6.30pm-8.45pm (film starts 7pm)

£4 entry / £3 concessions

The Compass (Function room),
58 Penton Street,
London N1 9PZ
Nearest Tube: Angel
http://thecompassn1.co.uk

Map:
http://www.multimap.com/maps/?qs=N1+9PZ&countryCode=GB

Facebook event page:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=165957345338#/event.php?eid=171756...

Watch the trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/alboradauk#play/all/favorites-all/0/U3iZx6UZrWY

About the Director:

Gibby Zobel is an English-born writer and broadcaster who moved to Brazil in 2002, where he made his first short, The Shoeshine President, about the historic election of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. During the last six years he has worked as the first Brazilian correspondent for the Arabic network Al Jazeera, as a reporter for the BBC World Service radio station and for the English newspaper The Guardian. He concentrates on highlighting environmental and social justice issues. MST: Landless Farmers and the Biggest March in Brazilian History is his first feature-length documentary. He was the winner, with Christian Spencer, of the Special Award of the International Jury at Ekofilm 2007, Europe’s oldest environmental film festival for Itatiaia: A Look Inside, a short about the Atlantic rainforest where he lived.