Exodus: Our Journey to Europe
Event date
17 January 2019
Event time
17:00
Oxford week
Venue
Lecture Theatre Manor Road Building
Speaker(s)
James Bluemel
James Bluemel: Winner of the BAFTA Award (2017) for Best Director Factual
Acclaimed documentary film-maker James Bluemel will show clips from and talk about his BAFTA winning BBC and PBS documentary series Exodus: Our Journey to Europe. The production team gave cameraphones to people attempting to reach Europe, escaping war, poverty or persecution. They filmed where regular film crews could not go: on the inflatable dinghies crossing from Turkey to Greece, in the back of lorries entering the Eurotunnel, or in open trucks driven by people smugglers across the Sahara. The result is a terrifyingly intimate yet uniquely epic portrait of the biggest movement of people that Europe has seen since World War Two.