documentary

Earth Day event to explore how finance sector can help save the planet

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 04/14/2021 - 11:34pm

University of Exeter academics and business leaders will explore how the finance sector can save the planet in a special documentary screening and panel event for Earth Day on 22 April.

The panel discussion will be chaired by Professor Gail Whiteman , Professor of Sustainable Business at the University of Exeter Business School and founder of Arctic Basecamp , a unique science-communication platform that holds a flagship event at the World Economic Forum in Davos each year.

It will follow a screening of the WWF documentary Our Planet: Too Big To Fail , a film showing the...

A Cambodian Spring Screening @ Exeter Picturehouse and Q&A with Venerable Luon Sovath and Chris Kelly

Event Date: 
24/06/2018 - 5:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Picturehouse

Critically acclaimed & powerful political documentary A Cambodian Spring will be screening at Exeter Picturehouse on 24th June followed by a Q&A with Director Chris Kelly and Venerable Luon Sovath.

Tickets: £11.60

Certificate: 15

RAMM screens Somme documentary

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Mon, 06/20/2016 - 11:28am

This year, Imperial War Museums (IWM) and Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) are working together to show the UNESCO listed film

The Battle of the Somme, to audiences across the world. Shot and screened in 1916, it was the first feature-length documentary about war and changed the way both cinema and film was perceived by the public. In the year of its release around 20 million people, almost half the population of Britain at the time, watched The Battle of the Somme many hoping to see the image of a loved-one, or friend captured on film. One hundred years later, this...

Hannah - Buddhism's Untold Journey

Event Date: 
15/06/2016 - 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix (Studio 74)

Exeter Diamond Way Buddhist Centre have the pleasure to announce the screening of the award winning Buddhist documentary "Hannah - Buddhism's Untold Journey" in Studio 74 at the Exeter Phoenix.

For more information and to see the official trailer please visit www.hannahthefilm.com After the film there will be the opportunity for a Q&A session hosted by one of the films directors.

Chronic pain relief explored by Exeter academic in BBC documentary

Life expectancy in the developed world is increasing, but for those with chronic pain, living longer could be seen as more of a curse than a blessing.

A University of Exeter academic will be exploring ground-breaking research into relieving chronic pain in a BBC Radio 4 documentary on 15 July at 9pm.

As we live longer more of us will begin to suffer chronic pain, but conventional medicine cannot offer a complete cure and usually only provides limited relief.

It is estimated the NHS will need an additional £5 billion by 2018 to deal with chronic conditions, leading...

Exeter historian's role in BBC documentary

The final episode of a three-part BBC 2 TV drama-documentary series Armada: 12 years to save England - Endgame will feature a University of Exeter medical historian on Sunday 7 June at 9pm.

Dr Alun Withey will share his knowledge about the role of the barber surgeon on board ship and the sorts of things he had to treat in battle and the sorts of instruments he used.

Elizabeth I played by Anita Dobson shows the monarch as politically astute and presenter Dan Snow takes to the sea to tell the story of how England came within a whisker of disaster in summer 1588. He explores...

New BBC documentary stars Exeter academic

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 02/04/2015 - 11:41am

A ground breaking interactive BBC documentary series exploring some of the biggest questions facing mankind about its past, present and future features expert commentary from University of Exeter religion scholar Professor Francesca Stavrakopoulou. The ‘Story of Now’ series uses the latest video technology to enable viewers to explore films and hear from 20 experts about some of the world’s fundamental issues from religion, to politics, creation to consciousness. Hollywood star, Idris Elba presents the series on the BBC’s new online platform for trying out digital content and emerging...

Exeter filmmaker's moving work

Authored by SueScott
Posted: Tue, 06/24/2014 - 10:41am

‘An unexpectedly affecting film’ – The Times ‘A complex, oddly moving portrait’ – The Guardian ‘Poignant and compelling’ - Bizarre

Exeter University filmmaker Toby Amies presents The Man Whose Mind Exploded Picturehouse Cinema, Exeter, July 1, 6.30pm

When you can’t remember yesterday, why worry about tomorrow? The only time that matters is the present.

For Drako Zarharzar, a landmark eccentric on the Brighton scene – so well-known that you could find him on Google Maps - the philosophy of the now was a way of coping with the ‘broken recorder’ in his brain.

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RETURN TO HOMS comes to the Exeter Picturehouse

Event Date: 
09/07/2014 - 6:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Picturehouse

Sundance-winning documentary RETURN TO HOMS will be screening at the Exeter Picturehouse on WEDNESDAY 9 JULY at 6:30pm, followed by Q&A with director, Talal Derki.

The film follows nineteen-year-old goalkeeper-turned-insurgent, Abdul Basset, as he and a ragtag group of comrades fight to protect the captive inhabitants of the besieged city of Homs. As one of the unlikely leaders of the Syrian rebellion Basset has become something of a totemic figure, with Le Monde labelling him an 'icon of the revolution'. His protest songs and dark sense of humour reflect his dream of...