George Bizos Icon, a private screening of the new documentary.
George Bizos Icon
The Anti-Apartheid Legacy: Centre of Memory & Learning and the Queen Mary University of London’s Forum for the Study of Empire and its Afterlives (formerly the Postcolonial Seminar) are convening a private screening of George Bizos Icon for an invited audience of secondary and tertiary students and academics in the fields of law, political science, sociology and history; solicitors and barristers in the human rights field; representatives of NGOs in human rights fields, members of the Southern African diaspora and former anti-apartheid activists.
We are delighted to host the filmmakers (Director and Executive Producer Jane Thandi Lipman and partner Alexi Bizos, son of George Bizos) who will take a short Q&A after the film engaging the film’s genesis, themes and intentions.
The screening will be held at BLOC, a new cinema, arts lab and post production suite at QMUL on Wednesday 25th September 2024.
About the film, George Bizos Icon:
George Bizos (1927-2020), a teenage refugee from Greece becomes a relentless human-rights lawyer in the crucible of a violent racist regime in South Africa. He represents freedom fighters including Mandela, in a political chess game, and a negotiated end to apartheid in which George participated. A champion of Constitutionalism in South Africa, George was key in its creation. Key in writing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) law he represented families there. With populism on the rise George speaks truth to power, advocating legal rights for the poor, and holding perpetrators of violence and corruption to account, including recent reopened inquests of activists murdered in the apartheid era, and the Marikana Massacre. In 2016 George was awarded the Freedom of the City of London in recognition of his fight for freedom, justice and equality.
Using an extensive public and media archive of George Bizos himself, the film juxtaposes the personal and political sides of George’s life showing the tapestry of his life and his motivation in his work. It uses public and never-before-seen archive in a semi-chronological way with a historical thread throughout the film. It also uses his family’s 8mm and still archive, and interviews with notables, colleagues, and family, engaging the viewer to the end (a short trailer can be viewed at https://vimeo.com/873603071/af25de296f )
Admission free but by invitation only – THIS EVENT IS NOW FULLY BOOKED
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