A presentation given at the 2012 Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand 16th Biennial Conference.
I examine what is meant by human rights cinema, particularly in the context of the wave of docufiction films that are currently being made at the moment, films such as Danfung Dennis' Hell and Back Again (2011) and Pawel Kloc's Phnom Penh Lullaby (2011). These docufictions creatively combine 'fictional' and 'non-fiction' film techniques in a way that not only allows spectators to become critically engaged with the tension between what is real and what is staged but to also enter an ethically uneasy space. I draw on my own experiences programming for the Human Rights & Arts Film Festival and discuss how Hell and Back Again can be classed as a human rights film.
You can listen to the presentation here:
https://soundcloud.com/t-w-music/docufictions-and-the-human
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