RELEASE LAWYER YANG ZAIXIN. HALT PULP MILL PLANS IN BEIHAI.
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RELEASE LAWYER YANG ZAIXIN. HALT PULP MILL PLANS IN BEIHAI.
Chinese lawyer Yang Zaixin has been imprisoned in Beihai, Southern China since June 2011. We demand that the Finnish government and officials and forestry company Stora Enso take action to end his unjust imprisonment. Read more...>>>"DEN TYSTA SKOGEN" ON SWEDISH TV 20 MAY 2012
Red Forest Hotel (Den tysta skogen) is aired on Swedish SVT2 on Sunday, 20th May at 22.00. "Svensk-finska skogsjätten Stora Enso planerar en ny massafabrik i Kina. Men i skuggan av den gigantiska investeringen finns rykten om våld mot lokalbefolkningen, markstölder och miljöproblem." Read on SVT.
FESTIVALS & SCREENINGS IN EUROPE
Red Forest Hotel will soon appear in these European film festivals:One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in Prague (March 6-15). Screenings were sold out!
Stockholm: DocLounge 3. April at 18.00.
London: Dochouse on April 12. UK Premiere + panel discussion with Green Politics Expert Larry Lohmann and Senior China Advisor of Global Witness Lizzie Parsons.
Petrozavodsk, Russia: Barents Ecology Film Festival BEFF 18-22. April 2012Leuven, Belgium: Docville International Documentary Festival 27.April - 5 May 2012
Planete Doc-festival in Warsaw, Poland, May 11-20.
Brussels, Belgium: One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival 17-26 May, 2012
SCREENINGS IN FINLAND
The Finnish version of the film is running in various cinemas across the country in January. See here for times & places.2011/12/08RED FOREST HOTEL SELECTED TO DOCPOINT 2012
Red Forest Hotel has been selected to Docpoint, Helsinki Documentary Film Festival."Also this year the jury put weight on the originality of the films as well as on the directors' ability to view things anew. All selected films deal with international subjects: the film makers are interested in other countries' conditions and in Finland's global role in the world economy."
Screening: Tuesday Jan 24 20.30 in Maxim 2.
2011/11/29MOVIE THEATRE PREMIERE
Date for movie theatre premiere in Finland is 2012/01/13.
2011/11/10RED FOREST HOTEL WORLD PREMIERE AND SCREENINGS AT THE IDFA
Red Forest Hotel will have its World Premiere on 20 November 2011, at the 24th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. The film participates in the IDFA Competition for Green Screen Documentary... Read more >>
2011/10/31/PREMIERE & PANEL DISCUSSION
"Red Forest Hotel" will premiere at IDFA festival in Amsterdam, taking place from 16-27 November 2011. http://www.idfa.nl/nl/Festival.aspx... Read more >>