Speakers - Wellington
A twenty-minute speakers’ panel will follow all film screenings
Speaker information is correct at time of publishing, but subject to last minute changes.
All the Invisible Children
Screening Thursday 10 May – 8pm
Speaker one: Sonya Hogan
Sonya is the New Zealand Programme Manager for Save the Children
New Zealand. Her work includes advocating for children's rights in New
Zealand by providing information, education and opportunities for action
on key child rights issues. These include issues that work to address
the elimination of poverty, the protection of children from abuse and
violence and the participation of children in issues that interest and
affect them.
Speaker two: Belinda Gorman
Belinda is the International Programme Officer for UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund) in New Zealand. Prior to this position, she worked with street children in Vietnam and Mongolia for the Christina Noble Children’s Foundation.
Speaker three: tba
Facilitator: Mary Parker
Past writer for North & South and Staple, and has been radio host on Radio 95bFM in Auckland and Radio Active in Wellington, Director of the Millennium Public Art Gallery in Marlborough. Was Research Director for TVOne arts show 'Frontseat'; and Production Manager and Researcher 'Sex and Lies in Cambodia', and until recently Deputy Chair of the New Zealand Fringe Festival
Barakat
Screening Tuesday 15 May – 6pm
Speaker one: Joy Liddicoat
Human Rights Commissioner, has worked for sixteen years as a lawyer across the public, private and community sectors. Specialising in human rights law, with particular emphasis on violence against women and children, she is also an expert in constitutional and public law. Community participation includes working with community law centres, women's organisations (including the National Council of Women, YWCA and women's refuges), and lesbian and gay organisations. Ms Liddicoat has a boutique legal practice specialising in human rights education and training both in New Zealand and overseas.
Speaker two: Alistair Thompson
Co-editor www.Scoop.co.nz Of Scottish and Irish extraction. 36 years old. Of Wellington New Zealand. Journalist with 17 years experience at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. Has been known to be mildly obsessive about foreign affairs and weather maps.
Speaker three: Nicci Simmonds
Worked with human rights as the basis for development projects, campaigns and policy development in a variety of contexts. She provided capacity-building and training support to the Afghanistan Human Rights Commission in 2005, and from 2001 to 2003 worked at the European Centre for Conflict Prevention in the Asia-Pacific Searching for Peace programme.
Facilitator: Keith Locke
Keith Locke has been a Green Party MP since 1999 . He is the Green spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Disarmament, Defence, Immigration and Overseas Aid and Police. In Parliament he sits on the Foreign Affairs and Trade Select Committee. He is widely known and respected for his work on global human rights, peace and justice issues since he has been the Parliament, and for many years before that. He has been most concerned to stop the so-called "war on terrorism" undermining our human rights and inveigling us into George Bush's wars.
Breaking Ranks
Screening Saturday 12 May – 1pm
(Preceded by Children of Leningradsky)
Speaker one: Rae Julian
Currently Executive Director, Council for International Development (an umbrella body for 73 international agencies based in New Zealand). Previous 10 years spent as Canada Fund Co-ordinator, Fiji, Kiribati, Tuvalu; Field Representative, Cambodia, Vietnam, Lao PDR. Volunteer Service Abroad (VSA), and District Electoral Supervisor as part of the UN Mission to Cambodia. Five years as a Human Rights Commissioner, 10 years in the Labour Research Unit and 5 years as a secondary teacher, interspersed with periods doing contract research complete her paid working life.
Speaker two: Andrena Paterson
Army Officer and lawyer for New Zealand Defence Force 1995-2005. Served as operations lawyer in two peacekeeping operations: East Timor 1999 and Arabian Gulf on HMNZS Te Mana 2003. Lawyer for Ministry of Justice 2005-2007.
Speaker three: Peter Love
Patron New Zealand Council of Civil Liberties. Trustee The Dalai Lama Trust, The Karori Wildlife Sanctuary, Wellington Tenths Trust (representing Iwi Mana Whenua, -Wgtn), Maori Partnership Board – CCDHB, Te Atamira Taiwhenua (Maori Advisory) Internal Affairs (Chair), Ngati Te Whiti Hapu Society Inc - New Plymouth (Chair)
Facilitator: Chris Lamonica
Lecturer in International Relations at VUW. His research interests include international relations theory and practice, African politics, and development issues. Prior to entering academia Chris worked with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, France, the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) in Cambridge, MA USA, and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in Lusaka, Zambia.
Breaking Ranks
Screening Monday 14 May – 8pm
(Preceded by Children of Leningradsky)
Speaker one: Ramon Das
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at VUW, works mainly in moral and political philosophy. He is especially interested in questions about ethics and international relations, as well as questions about what responsibilities ordinary citizens have to alleviate global suffering. Other research areas include philosophy of law, philosophy of economics, and moral psychology. He is currently writing a book on the ethics of globalization. >
Speaker two: Keith Locke
Keith Locke has been a Green Party MP since 1999 . He is the Green spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Disarmament, Defence, Immigration and Overseas Aid and Police. In Parliament he sits on the Foreign Affairs and Trade Select Committee. He is widely known and respected for his work on global human rights, peace and justice issues since he has been the Parliament, and for many years before that. He has been most concerned to stop the so-called "war on terrorism" undermining our human rights and inveigling us into George Bush's wars.
Facilitator: David Capie
Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington. His research focuses on conflict and security issues, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region. His recent work includes research on weapons trafficking in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, and efforts to get non-state armed groups to comply with humanitarian norms.
Breath of Peace
Screening Saturday 12 May –3pm
Speaker one: Sam Buchanan
Sam Buchanan is a long-term Wellington peace and social justice activist currently working to encourage anarchist methods and oppose authority, capitalism, militarism and dickheadedness. He is a member of the Common Ground community garden group, the Wildcat Anarchist Collective, The Service and Food Worker’s Union and the New Zealand Deerstalkers Association. Currently (May 9th), he feels like a small fluffy bunny sitting in the path of the zombie-driven bulldozer of global capitalism. Another opinion, from a commentator on the New Zeal blog, calls him: "a typical liberal "pinko" unwittingly supporting socially destructive pro-ethnic nationalist doctrines that originated with Communists."
Speaker two: Stephanie Mills
Involved in Women for Peace and anti-nuclear warship campaigns in the early 1980s, & then joined NZ Herald as a journalist. Joined CND in 1986 (the UK Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) in London as a media officer and editor. Returned to New Zealand in 1990 & joined Greenpeace initially as the South Pacific nuclear testing campaigner for Greenpeace International; 13 years in various roles including nuclear testing campaign at Moruroa in 1995, lobbying at the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, organising campaigns against plutonium shipments and initiating Greenpeace's campaign against President Bush's Star Wars programme in 2001. Stephanie now lives in Wellington with her partner and three children and works as Communications Director for NZEI Te Riu Roa, the union for primary and early childhood teachers and principals and school support staff.
Speaker three: tba
Facilitator: Kaspar Beech
Kaspar Beech has been working for the Parliamentary Network for Nuclear Disarmament for three years, most recently as assistant global coordinator. His role has included advocacy, management and diplomacy both in New Zealand and overseas. He is currently studying International Relations and Economics at the Victoria University of Wellington. Before taking this job he worked in impoverished slums in Brazil’s largest city, São Paulo. He is proficient in a number of languages.
Carla’s List
Screening Friday 11 May - 8pm
Speaker one: Elizabeth Stanley
Senior lecturer in Criminology at VUW, previously spent five years as a Lecturer in Critical Criminology at the Centre for Studies in Crime and Social Justice, UK. Elizabeth’s research interests are in the areas of state crime, human rights, transitional justice and social justice. She has undertaken studies on rights and detention in NZ and the UK, and her work in South Africa, Chile and Timor Leste has focused on truth commissions and court processes.
Speaker two: Todd Cleaver
Works with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and is soon to be posted to Suva as New Zealand's Deputy High Commissioner. From 1995-2001 Todd Cleaver worked in the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the ICTY, latterly as part of the Leadership Research Team building cases against many of the 'principals', including Milosevic and Karadzic. He had previously led a large humanitarian aid operation in central Bosnia during the conflict (1992-1995)
Speaker three: Stuart Beresford
Principal Advisor, Bill of Rights/Human Rights Team at Ministry of Justice
Facilitator: John Shaw
For the last five years John Shaw has been Amnesty International New Zealand's Development Manager -- responsible for fundraising, recruitment and promotion. He has 20 years experience in communications and marketing, for NGOs and corporates; and in previous careers has worked as a journalist, television producer and secondary school teacher.
Coca: The Dove from Chechnya
Screening Tuesday 15 May – 8.15pm
Speaker one: Sharon Clair
Vice president Maori of the CTU since 2005, after 29 years working in nursing and health, and most recently as the Policy Analyst Maori of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation. Sharon is a member of the Maori Women’s Welfare League, an executive on her hapu trust and continues her involvement in her whanau/hapu development. Sharon is the co chair of MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY in Aotearoa, an executive committee member on the National Consultative Committee for Disarmament, an executive committee member of the Peace Foundation Aotearoa and a regular political commentator on Radio Waatea.
Speaker two: Nicci Simmons
Has a strong interest in human rights and human security, involved in the global women's movement and in the peace movement. She was educated in NZ but have worked with civil society organisations in Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Philippines, Indonesia, and in the Pacific. Nicci was the coordinator for the 1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005 campaign and is now a member of the Pacific working group for PeaceWomen Across the Globe.
Speaker three: Andrew Ladley
Andrew Ladley is the Director of the Institute of Policy Studies at
Victoria University. The Institute is a think tank concerned with
domestic and foreign policy issues. His interests, teaching and research
are in the areas of conflict resolution, peace building and restorative
studies, with a particular emphasis on constitutions and state building.
This builds on his background as a constitutional lawyer and his
substantial practical experience on behalf of the United Nations,
Amnesty International and others in countries as diverse as Cambodia,
Bougainville, South Africa, Bosnia, the Gambia, Jamaica and East Timor, and more recently, in Tonga and the Solomon Islands.
Facilitator: Joy Liddicoat
Human Rights Commissioner, has worked for sixteen years as a lawyer across the public, private and community sectors. Specialising in human rights law, with particular emphasis on violence against women and children, she is also an expert in constitutional and public law. Community participation includes working with community law centres, women's organisations (including the National Council of Women, YWCA and women's refuges), and lesbian and gay organisations. Ms Liddicoat has a boutique legal practice specialising in human rights education and training both in New Zealand and overseas.
Goal Dreams
Screening Wednesday 9 May – 6.30pm
-Opening Night Function and Screening-
Speaker one: Hamid Abu-Shamad
Hamid was born in Palestine ( in a village outside Hebron). In 1977 he finished his school & went to England to study. He did his first University degree and Ph.D at the University of Leeds. In 1988, he married a British woman and moved into Secondary teaching, and taught Physics/Science in Leeds for 12 years. In January 2001, he started work with the 'Department for International Development' (British Government) as a Science Education Adviser to the Island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic. He then moved with his family to New Zealand in October 2004 and teaches Physics/Science in Wellington, where he lives with his wife, daughter and son. His family (mother, brothers and sisters) lives in the West Bank and he visits about once every 3 years.
Speaker two: Vicky Mason
Fellow at the University of Melbourne and is currently a Visiting Lecturer in the School of History, Philosophy, Politics and International Relations at Victoria University. Her research and teaching focuses on human rights, the Middle East, South Africa and broad issues of racism and discrimination, particularly Islamophobia.
Speaker three: Katrina Bayliss
Assistant director and youth outreach coordinator of the Peace Foundation in Wellington, a member of the Wellington Peace City Committee and founder of the Palestine Peace and Solidarity Group, which aims to achieve justice, peace and reconciliation in the Middle East and between Middle Eastern peoples (Palestinian, Arab, Israeli, Jewish, Muslim, Christian and others) in Wellington. Has had an eclectic career in theatre, events coordination and as an advocate and educator for peace, justice and reconciliation.
Facilitator: Father Gerald Burns
Catholic priest working in Newtown, Wellington. Has had pastoral experience in Peru and Timor Leste and a long-standing interest and involvement in social justice issues in NZ and overseas. Currently completing studies in international relations at Victoria University.
Goal Dreams
Screening Tuesday 15 May – 1pm
Speaker one: Katrina Bayliss
Assistant director and youth outreach coordinator of the Peace Foundation in Wellington, a member of the Wellington Peace City Committee and founder of the Palestine Peace and Solidarity Group, which aims to achieve justice, peace and reconciliation in the Middle East and between Middle Eastern peoples (Palestinian, Arab, Israeli, Jewish, Muslim, Christian and others) in Wellington. Has had an eclectic career in theatre, events coordination and as an advocate and educator for peace, justice and reconciliation.
Speaker two: Glenn Barclay
Glenn Barclay has been a Minister of religion for 21 years and has been an overseas Peace worker in Northern Ireland and the Middle East.
Speaker three: Boris Van Beusekom
Senior Advisor, Bill of Rights/Human Rights Team, Ministry of Justice; co-convenor of the Human Rights Film Festival
Facilitator: Chris Laidlaw
Radio NZ broadcaster, columnist, author, Wellington Regional Councillor, sports commentator and former Rhodes Scholar, Ambassador, Race Relations Conciliator, Human Rights Commissioner, All Black and MP
The Iron Wall
Screening Sunday 13 May – 8.30pm
(Preceded by In Working Progress)
Speaker one: Vicky Mason
Fellow at the University of Melbourne and is currently a Visiting Lecturer in the School of History, Philosophy, Politics and International Relations at Victoria University. Her research and teaching focuses on human rights, the Middle East, South Africa and broad issues of racism and discrimination, particularly Islamophobia.
Speaker two: Katrina Bayliss
Assistant director and youth outreach coordinator of the Peace Foundation in Wellington, a member of the Wellington Peace City Committee and founder of the Palestine Peace and Solidarity Group, which aims to achieve justice, peace and reconciliation in the Middle East and between Middle Eastern peoples (Palestinian, Arab, Israeli, Jewish, Muslim, Christian and others) in Wellington. Has had an eclectic career in theatre, events coordination and as an advocate and educator for peace, justice and reconciliation.
Speaker three: Hamid Abu-Shamad
Hamid was born in Palestine ( in a village outside Hebron). In 1977 he finished his school & went to England to study. He did his first University degree and Ph.D at the University of Leeds. In 1988, he married a British woman and moved into Secondary teaching, and taught Physics/Science in Leeds for 12 years. In January 2001, he started work with the 'Department for International Development' (British Government) as a Science Education Adviser to the Island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic. He then moved with his family to New Zealand in October 2004 and teaches Physics/Science in Wellington, where he lives with his wife, daughter and son. His family (mother, brothers and sisters) lives in the West Bank and he visits about once every 3 years.
Facilitator: Nigel Parsons
Lecturer in Politics at Massey University in Palmerston North. He specialises in Palestinian institutions, particularly the Palestine Liberation Organisation, the Palestinian Authority and the Fatah movement. Currently researching the politics of closure, colonisation and borders in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, political change within Fatah and the Palestinian Authority, the meaning of elections in the Islamic Republic of Iran, the evolution of the National Democratic Party as Egypt's party of state, and political restructuring in the Sudan. His book entitled The Politics of the Palestinian Authority: From Oslo to al-Aqsa was published by Routledge in 2005.
The Iron Wall
Screening Wednesday 16 May – 6pm
(Preceded by In Working Progress)
Speaker one: Katrina Bayliss
Assistant director and youth outreach coordinator of the Peace Foundation in Wellington, a member of the Wellington Peace City Committee and founder of the Palestine Peace and Solidarity Group, which aims to achieve justice, peace and reconciliation in the Middle East and between Middle Eastern peoples (Palestinian, Arab, Israeli, Jewish, Muslim, Christian and others) in Wellington. Has had an eclectic career in theatre, events coordination and as an advocate and educator for peace, justice and reconciliation. >
Speaker two: Hamid Abu-Shamad
Hamid was born in Palestine ( in a village outside Hebron). In 1977 he finished his school & went to England to study. He did his first University degree and Ph.D at the University of Leeds. In 1988, he married a British woman and moved into Secondary teaching, and taught Physics/Science in Leeds for 12 years. In January 2001, he started work with the 'Department for International Development' (British Government) as a Science Education Adviser to the Island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic. He then moved with his family to New Zealand in October 2004 and teaches Physics/Science in Wellington, where he lives with his wife, daughter and son. His family (mother, brothers and sisters) lives in the West Bank and he visits about once every 3 years.
Speaker three: Tal Rogoff
Peace Foundation, & in her final year studying English Literature at Victoria University of Wellington. Working primarily on Babel - a culture-focused youth project with Peace Foundation’s Youth Outreach Co-ordinator Katrina Bayliss. Born and bred Jewish and Israeli, Tal defines her interest in the Peace Foundation’s work for the teaching of conflict resolution and mediation skills as personal. With Katrina – who has Palestinian roots - she hopes to provide practical examples of how youth can reach across the cultural and experiential divides created by violent conflict in order generate increased understanding and create the possibility for peace.
Facilitator: Vicky Mason
Fellow at the University of Melbourne and is currently a Visiting Lecturer in the School of History, Philosophy, Politics and International Relations at Victoria University. Her research and teaching focuses on human rights, the Middle East, South Africa and broad issues of racism and discrimination, particularly Islamophobia.
Living Rights
Screening Wednesday 16 May –8pm
Speaker one: Archie Kerr
Paediatrician, Hutt Valley DHB, strong interest in children’s rights
Speaker two: Peter Love
Patron New Zealand Council of Civil Liberties. Trustee The Dalai Lama Trust, The Karori Wildlife Sanctuary, Wellington Tenths Trust (representing Iwi Mana Whenua, -Wgtn), Maori Partnership Board – CCDHB, Te Atamira Taiwhenua (Maori Advisory) Internal Affairs (Chair), Ngati Te Whiti Hapu Society Inc - New Plymouth (Chair).
Speaker three: Ced Simpson
Amnesty International NZ Director.
Facilitator: Mary Wareham
Advocacy Director fo Oxfam New Zealand
Race is a Four Letter Word
Screening Friday 11 May – 1pm
(Preceded by Outlawed)
Speaker one: Te Anau Tuiono
Teanau Tuiono is of Maori and Pacific Island descent. His mother comes
from Ngapuhi and Ngai Takoto his father is from the island of Atiu in
the Cook Islands. Teanau is a parent, activist, philosopher, and
community worker. Teanau walks in two worlds, as a Maori activist
commited to Tino Rangatiratanga ( Maori Independence ), and as a first
generation Pacific Islander commited to community development for
Pasifika communities.
Speaker two: Sean Redmond
Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. He has research interests in race and representation, particularly the power of whiteness to shape the cultural world in its own image. Sean is currently working on the edited collection, The War Body on Screen, (Continuum, 2007).
Speaker three: Hannah Ho
Hannah Ho wai ling is a Chinese-New Zealander. Her extended family has lived in Malaysia for a few generations, her ancestors hail from Guangdong. She cooks for money and is involved in grassroots activism around decolonisation, anti-racism, queer stuff, feminism and environmental stuff. BA degree in sociology/education.
Facilitator: Joris De Bres
Race Relations Conciliator since 2002, was Secretary and Vice- President of the Citizens Association for Racial Equality (CARE) in the 1970's. Was a community organiser, teacher and journalist before joining the New Zealand Public Service Association (PSA) in 1977 as a union organiser, Auckland Regional Secretary and then Assistant General Secretary (Industrial). Joined the Department of Conservation as Public Awareness Manager in 1992 and became General Manager, External Relations in 1997. Has worked extensively with issues relating to Maori, the Treaty of Waitangi, Pacific island peoples, migrants and racial equality. Trustee of the Pohutukawa and Rata Conservation Trust, Project Crimson, Vice-Chairperson of Oxfam New Zealand, and a member of the Advisory Board for the Victoria University Centre for Applied Cross-Cultural Research.
Race is a Four Letter Word
Screening Sunday 13 May – 6.45pm
Preceded by Outlawed
Speaker one: Te Anau Tuiono
Teanau Tuiono is of Maori and Pacific Island descent. His mother comes
from Ngapuhi and Ngai Takoto his father is from the island of Atiu in
the Cook Islands. Teanau is a parent, activist, philosopher, and
community worker. Teanau walks in two worlds, as a Maori activist
commited to Tino Rangatiratanga ( Maori Independence ), and as a first
generation Pacific Islander commited to community development for
Pasifika communities.
Speaker two: Hannah Ho
hannah Ho wai ling is a chinese-new zealander. Her extended family has lived in Malaysia for a few generations, her ancestors hail from Guangdong. She cooks for money and is involved in grassroots activism around decolonisation, anti-racism, queer stuff, feminism and environmental stuff. BA degree in sociology/education.
Speaker three: Nigel Murphy
Pakeha whose special interest area is Chinese New Zealand history. He is the author of The Poll Tax in New Zealand: A Research Paper, and co-author of Aliens at My Table: Asians as New Zealanders See Them. His recent research interest is racism and the formation of national identity.
Facilitator: tba
The Refugees from the Blue Planet
Screening Thursday 10 May – 6pm
(Preceded by Escudo)
Speaker one: Bill Hipwell
Lecturer in Geography and Development Studies at Victoria
University of Wellington. His research with aboriginal peoples in Canada, Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand has frequently dealt with the extant or imminent problem of displacement by environmental pollution, water diversion, or natural resource exploitation. His work now focuses on the construction of networks of resistance to "Industria": the
multiplicitous manifestation of neo-liberal globalisation that threatens to make refugees of us all.
Speaker two: John Overton
Lecturer in Development Studies at VUW; Director, Graduate Programme in Development Studies. Research interests include development theories, development strategies in the Maldives, value of place in the New Zealand wine industry, & land tenure in the Pacific Islands.
Speaker three: Shaliny Jaufar
Maldivian student studying in Vic Uni, doing a Masters in Development Studies under an NZAid Scholarship. Prior to her studies Shaliny worked in a government ministry, in the Community Development Unit, where she will rejoin after her studies.
Facilitator: Judy Lawrence
Director of PSConsulting Ltd working in fields of sustainable development, climate change, energy and science. Has held senior public service positions as Director of the NZ Climate Change Office and CEO of the Ministry of Womens Affairs with a longstanding interest in environment and social justice issues in New Zealand and internationally.
The Refugees of the Blue Planet
Screening Monday 14 May – 1pm
(Preceded by Escudo)
Speaker one: Shaliny Jaufar
Maldivian student studying in Vic Uni, doing a Masters in Development Studies under an NZAid Scholarship. Prior to her studies Shaliny worked in a government ministry, in the Community Development Unit, where she will rejoin after her studies.
Speaker two: Justin Kemp
Justin Kemp is a trustee of the Human Rights Network. He has a background in environmental planning and international development and has a strong interest in social justice, human rights and environmental issues. His involvement in the issue of climate change and its affects stems from his work as a Senior Programme Officer for the Council for International Development where he covers environmental, Pacific and disaster management issues. Justin facilitates the NGO Disaster Relief Forum, an open forum for New Zealand based NGOs involved in international humanitarian action and disaster management.
Speaker three: Dr Sea Rotmann
Dr Sea Rotmann has undertaken her PhD in Environmental Science on a small, isolated island in Northern Papua New Guinea. She worked on the environmental impacts that a major, international gold mine had on the surrounding coral reefs. However, the social impact from the mine seemed to have had a much more significant and long-lasting impact than the environmental destruction.
Facilitator: Tim Jones
Website Content Manager at VUW, Convenor of the Sustainable Energy Forum, and is involved with the Climate Defence Network, writer & poet>
Rosita
Screening Friday 11 May – 6pm
(Preceded by Eviction)
Speaker one: Margaret Sparrow
Family Planning International Development. Retired sexual health physician with a special interest in family planning and abortion. She is also the President of the Abortion Law Reform Association of NZ.
Speaker two: Guada Lagrada
Guada is currently Asia Programme Manager for Save the Children New Zealand, where she coordinates with local partners in several countries in Asia to help deliver immediate and lasting improvements to children’s lives and fight for children’s rights.
Speaker three: : Sister Catherine Hanna
New Zealander and a Sister of Compassion for many years, been involved in Education with the physically and intellectually disabled, in schools on the Wanganui River and for Aborigine in the west of New South Wales. Have been in Social Work for several years, including Arohata prison, Catholic Social Services and now at the Compassion Centre Soup Kitchen- which involves much more than soup.
Facilitator: Ced Simpson
Executive director, Amnesty Internatonal NZ
Rosita
Screening Monday 14 May – 6pm
(Preceded by Eviction)
Speaker one: Joanna Spratt
Manager of the NZ Family Planning Association's International Development unit (FPAID). She has a background in nursing and public health, and as Manager of FPAID works to further sexual and reproductive health and rights throughout the world.
Speaker two: Grace Millar
Grace Millar completed a MA thesis on the history of the Women's Liberation Movement at the end of 2003. She has been involved with activist politics since 1997 when she was arrested on the steps of parliament with 75 other students. She worked for unions for 4 years. Most recently she has been part of the actions that protested police rape, and how rape survivors are treated in our justice system.
Speaker three: tba
Facilitator: CTU –Sharon Clair
Vice president Maori of the CTU since 2005, after 29 years working in nursing and health, and most recently as the Policy Analyst Maori of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation. Sharon is a member of the Maori Women’s Welfare League, an executive on her hapu trust and continues her involvement in her whanau/hapu development. Sharon is the co chair of MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY in Aotearoa, an executive committee member on the National Consultative Committee for Disarmament, an executive committee member of the Peace Foundation Aotearoa and a regular political commentator on Radio Waatea.
The Shape of Water
Screening Saturday 12 May – 6pm
(Preceded by Living Proof)
Speaker one: Alison Lewin
Alison is the Executive Director of the YWCA of Aotearoa New Zealand which is part of a global movement committed to improving the lives of women and girls worldwide. Their priorities are Women’s Leadership, health and justice issues and sustainable development.
She has worked for the NGO/community sector in various management/advisory roles over the last 15 years. Her particular interest has been in the creation of vocational training and community-based employment initiatives for people who tend to be disadvantaged in the labour market.
Speaker two: Judy McGregor
Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) Commissioner. She is a trained lawyer and a former head of the Departments of Human Resource Management and Communication and Journalism at Massey University. Dr McGregor was founder and convenor of the New Zealand Centre for Women and Leadership located at Massey University. Her community work includes improving Maori journalism through the Mana Trust, working on the barriers faced by mature job-seekers, helping women in public life with media campaigns and lobbying for better media coverage of women's sport.
Speaker three: Shutri Navathe
Shruti is currently a PhD student at Victoria University. She grew up in India and has lived in many different parts of the country. She is a feminist, which she defines as "a woman who has a brain and uses it". She has been involved in various women's groups, in the capacity of "doing whatever needed to be done", which has included teaching for Akanksha in one of the many slums in Pune and translating for a sex worker health project in Mumbai. But Shruti considers the most important work she's been involved in has been informal; discussing domestic violence with women in the slums, sex education with confused younger students and convincing random women that they have a right to exist outside their duty to men.
Facilitator: Maria McMillan
DevZone manager, involved in NGOs and community groups for more than 15 years, Maria has developed a particular passion for capacity building in the areas of facilitation, group-decision making and planning. She has a professional background in library and information management, with a Post-Graduate Diploma in Library and Information Studies. In 2003 she returned to university to undertake an Honours Programme in Political Science, where she focused her research on globalisation, water privatisation and theories of war
Sign of the Times
Screening Sunday 13 May – 1pm
(Preceded by Equal Access)
Speaker one: Robyn Hunt
Human Rights Commissioner (part-time), 20 years experience in the fields of human rights and equity issues. Her focus areas have been disability and equal employment issues. Ms Hunt was the first President of the Council of Workbridge Inc and co-chair of the Disability Strategy Sector Reference Group. She is a JP, writer, trainer, coach and mentor and is director of an accessible web services company. She was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to people with disabilities in 2001.
Speaker two: Victoria Manning
Director of Sign of the Times. After attaining her masters degree in mental health counselling from Gallaudet University in America, Victoria worked as a psychologist for the deaf, establishing New Zealand's first deaf mental health services. Victoria also led an 8-year long human rights case that resulted in deaf, hearing impaired and speech impaired people gaining access to the telephone. More recently, Victoria has been working as an analyst with the Office for Disability Issues that included three and a half years of working on the New Zealand Sign Language Bill.
Speaker three: Paul Wolffram
Director of Sign of the Times
Speaker four: Tricia Laing
President of Wellington Association for Deaf Children (2004 -2007). Has been involved in advocating for deaf and hearing impaired children and their families to have free access to NZSL and Deaf culture since her daughter, Erica Dawson (17.5 years), was diagnosed profoundly deaf aged 30 months. Has been a member and deputy chair of the Board of Trustees of van Asch Deaf Education Centre (2001-2006), a member and secretary of the New Zealand Federation for Deaf Children (2001-2007) Wellington Association for Deaf Children is currently establishing a Sunday Sign School to give families easier access to NZSL and Deaf culture. Gained a PhD in anthropology (1976) for a thesis on the experience of Samoan children who had migrated to New Zealand for the purpose of gaining a good education. Has published papers on the concept of hearing parents migrating with their deaf children to Deaf World. Recently edited a collection of papers entitled , Cultural Positions in the Deaf World in SITES: A journal of social anthropology and cultural studies, Vol 3, No 1, 2006. Currently her paid work is as a Senior Research and Evaluation Analyst at Housing New Zealand Corporation.
Facilitator: David McKee
Research Director at Deaf Studies Research Unit & Linguistics Lecturer at VUW. In 1992 he and Rachel Locker McKee established and taught New Zealand's first full-time sign language interpreter training course at Auckland University of Technology.
Research interests have been in Deaf Studies, including the corpus-based description of New Zealand Sign Language, sociolinguistic variation and NZSL lexicography, and comparative studies of sign languages (American, Australian, British, and New Zealand sign languages). He was consulting editor for the Concise Dictionary of New Zealand Sign Language (Bridget Williams Books, 2002).
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Sign of the Times
Screening Wednesday 16 May – 1pm
(Preceded by Equal Access)
Speaker one: Victoria Manning
Director of Sign of the Times. After attaining her masters degree in mental health counselling from Gallaudet University in America, Victoria worked as a psychologist for the deaf, establishing New Zealand's first deaf mental health services. Victoria also led an 8-year long human rights case that resulted in deaf, hearing impaired and speech impaired people gaining access to the telephone. More recently, Victoria has been working as an analyst with the Office for Disability Issues that included three and a half years of working on the New Zealand Sign Language Bill.
Speaker two: Paul Wolffram
Director of Sign of the Times
Speaker three: Tricia Laing
President of Wellington Association for Deaf Children (2004 -2007). Has been involved in advocating for deaf and hearing impaired children and their families to have free access to NZSL and Deaf culture since her daughter, Erica Dawson (17.5 years), was diagnosed profoundly deaf aged 30 months. Has been a member and deputy chair of the Board of Trustees of van Asch Deaf Education Centre (2001-2006), a member and secretary of the New Zealand Federation for Deaf Children (2001-2007) Wellington Association for Deaf Children is currently establishing a Sunday Sign School to give families easier access to NZSL and Deaf culture. Gained a PhD in anthropology (1976) for a thesis on the experience of Samoan children who had migrated to New Zealand for the purpose of gaining a good education. Has published papers on the concept of hearing parents migrating with their deaf children to Deaf World. Recently edited a collection of papers entitled , Cultural Positions in the Deaf World in SITES: A journal of social anthropology and cultural studies, Vol 3, No 1, 2006. Currently her paid work is as a Senior Research and Evaluation Analyst at Housing New Zealand Corporation.
Facilitator: Theresa Cooper
Deaf professional working at Wellington City Council as a Heritage Advisor. Also a Co-ordinator for Deaf at the Council. Project Leader for Wellington Deaf Youth Group, recently set up under Wellington Deaf Society. Leading the committee to organise Third National Deaf Youth Camp. Mainstreamed at local schools, completed a degree in Landscape Architecture at Lincoln University, Canterbury, worked in several government departments focus in heritage management for six years. Only Deaf person in family of four girls.
Total Denial
Screening Saturday 12 May –8.15pm
(Preceded by Bound By Promises)
Speaker one: Behreh Peh
Behreh left Burma in 1993 and lived in a refugee camp until 2005. From 2000 – 2005 he worked for the organisation Burma Issues doing research and documentation. He did several research trips inside the 'black areas' of Eastern Burma collecting information on the human rights situation there
Speaker two: Kyi Kyi
Information & Support Officer, Burmese
Speaker three: Yadana Saw
For many years Yadana Saw has been committed to projects that promote social justice, good food and - like this panel's facilitator - non-dickheadedness. Sharing her name with the oppressive force of this movie (The Yadana Pipeline) by both being products of Burmese heritage, Yadana-the-person is currently completing her MA in Anthropology, which could arguably produce more hot gas than the other (evil) Yadana.
Facilitator: Sam Buchanan
Sam Buchanan is a long-term Wellington peace and social justice activist currently working to encourage anarchist methods and oppose authority, capitalism, militarism and dickheadedness. He is a member of the Common Ground community garden group, the Wildcat Anarchist Collective, The Service and Food Worker’s Union and the New Zealand Deerstalkers Association. Currently (May 9th), he feels like a small fluffy bunny sitting in the path of the zombie-driven bulldozer of global capitalism. Another opinion, from a commentator on the New Zeal blog, calls him: "a typical liberal "pinko" unwittingly supporting socially destructive pro-ethnic nationalist doctrines that originated with Communists."
We’re Normally Different
Screening Thursday 10 May – 1pm
(Preceded by Awaiting Tomorrow)
Speaker one: Bob Hillier
Office of Disabilities, previous with Ministry of Consumer Affairs where he was a Consumer Complaints Officer and Policy Advisor. After training as a lawyer he worked with tenants through the Christchurch Community Law Centre
Speaker two: Fran Renton
Fran Renton is an Advocate for IHC. The Mission of IHC Advocacy is to assist to strengthen the voice of people with an intellectual disability as they assert their right to be valued citizens. This work includes providing information, support and advice to individuals, families and organisations as well as running campaigns to promote improvements in the systems, laws, policies and attitudes that affect the lives of people with an intellectual disability and their families.
Speaker three: Don Bagnall
Father of intellectually disabled son
Facilitator Grant Morris
Senior Lecturer in Law, VUW, PhD in New Zealand Legal History. SibSupportNZ Facilitator since 1997 (this is the group that runs camps for kids aged 8-18 who have a sibling with special needs. It's part of the Parent to Parent organisation that supports the families of disabled people). We started running these camps in Hamilton during the mid-1990s and then all around NZ from 2001. A distinctive aspect of these camps is the way in which we incorporate drama to aid in the discussion/learning process.
