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8 Filmmakers
8 NGOs
8 Short films
8 Millennium Development Goals
Hello. Thank you for attending this press conference
to tell you the story of how,
following the United Nations' commitment to halving world poverty by 2015,
a film was born, with contributions from eight top directors;
a film which has given rise to a unique web-based platform,
which will enable concrete action through eight organizations,
eight both prestigious and effective NGOs.
We embarked on this adventure full of innocent enthusiasm, to be honest:
let's make short films,
but with the prerequisite that the directors be given carte blanche.
You should be aware that the film wasn't commissioned by the UN;
it was on the initiative of an independent French producer,
so we were able to and intent on offering this freedom to the filmmakers.
With the "no time left" project,
we became interested in presenting a project on children's health in the OurŽ Cassoni camp,
a camp that is home to some 28,000 Sudanese refugees in north-eastern Chad.
Here, of course, there are numerous humanitarian problems,
one of which is symptomatic of the difficulties of these refugees
and of their life in the camp, and that's children's health.
It's also because we know, that short films like these,
and notably Jan Kounen's on maternal health,
can explain so much and bring so much awareness;
and it's true that little is known about a cause like women and pregnancy.
Today, there are still half a million women who die every year
because they don't receive medical care during pregnancy.
Everything is based on the actual moment you film the accounts;
that's how you get film to become,
at that precise moment, simply a tool to present subjects,
a culture, human beings, their feelings and their experiences;
to harmonize cognitively,
to put across certain things that will have a rebound effect on us.
Action Against Hunger partnered Abderrahmane Sissako's film,
Tiya's Dream is the dream of Action Against Hunger:
eradicating famine in the world.
You should know that at the time
when the Millennium Development goals were signed in 2000,
there were 800 million people suffering from hunger.
Today, there are over one billion people suffering from hunger in the world.
The film that was chosen
and the way in which the subject of women's equality was treated
was extremely provocative:
she's an educated Muslim woman, living in London,
who leaves her husband and child and claims the freedom to do so.
It's a film that caused a reaction, a film that disturbed people,
a film that brought reaction from the highest levels of the UN,
and Care is delighted to be the partner of this film,
to attach its name to this film.
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