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York Human Rights Film Festival – The Divide
March 17, 2017 @ 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm
York Human Rights Film Festival 2017 is sponsored by the York Human Rights City Network (YHRCN) in association with the Centre for Applied Human Rights (CAHR), University of York. This year’s Festival brings three films over the course of three days which focus on a wide variety of human rights issues:
The Divide tells the story of 7 individuals striving for a better life in the modern day US and UK – where the top 0.1% owns as much wealth as the bottom 90%. By plotting these tales together, we uncover how virtually every aspect of our lives is controlled by one factor: the size of the gap between rich and poor.
This isn’t based on real life. This is real life.
Wall Street psychologist Alden wants to make it to the top 1%; KFC worker Leah from Richmond, Virginia just wants to make it through the day; Jen in Sacramento, California doesn’t even talk to the neighbours in her upscale gated community – they’ve made it clear to her she isn’t “their kind”.
By weaving these stories with news archive from 1979 to the present day, The Divide creates a lyrical, psychological and tragi-comic picture of how economic division creates social division. The film is inspired by the critically-acclaimed, best-selling book “The Spirit Level” by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett.
Tickets are free but need to be reserved through Eventbrite.
For further information contact: yhr.film.festival@gmail.com
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