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TAKE ONE ACTION FILM FESTIVAL
Film festival tackles female empowerment, social inequity and climate action
Take One Action, the UK’s leading global change fi lm festival, is returning to venues across Edinburgh and Glasgow this autumn with a programme of 20 feature fi lms and more than 20 shorts. Now in its 12th year, the festival will also make its way to Aberdeen (15–17 Nov) and Inverness (22–24 Nov). Alongside the featured fi lms, attendees can also enjoy a variety of masterclasses, workshops, community meals and more.
The festival strives to champion female talent and that is refl ected in the fact that more than 60% of fi lms in its programme are directed or co-directed by women. These include Ruth Reid’s Scheme Birds, which follows a teenage girl growing up on Motherwell’s Jerviston housing estate; Grit, featuring an Indonesian teenager challenging corporate impunity and corruption; and The Prosecutors, which looks at lawyers fi ghting for victims of confl ict-related sexual violence. There is also space in the programme for highlighting intersectional movements (Everything Must Fall, pictured), the issue of human traffi cking in the food industry (Ghost Fleet) and youth activism (Inventing Tomorrow).
Take One Action aims to be as accessible as possible, offering a sliding scale of ticket prices and subtitled, captioned and BSL interpreted screenings, bringing these global issues to a global audience. (Sofi a Matias). ■ Various venues, Edinburgh & Glasgow, Wed 18–Sun 29 Sep,
50 THE LIST 1 Sep–31 Oct 2019