her welcome to belmont journal your hyper local news program for belmont i'm jeff hansel and we have a special edition this week on the global cinema film festival and i'm here with rove jacob he is the executive director of the director the film festival is that right that is correct and his welcome to beaumont journal well thanks for having me geoff it's a privilege to be here and also very excited that you folks are coming on as media sponsors for the event this year so we thank you for spotlighting the sensitive films and we appreciate the attention well we'll let folks know out there that the global cinema film festival will be at the studio cinema from march eighth through march eleventh there are a lot of documentaries and narrative shorts which you're going to see some trailers of and we're going to talk a little bit about them how many years now have you done the festival this is something you really started recently is correct yes so this is our third annual event so the global cinema film festival boston which is a logical extension of my production company which is w c s studios and films which has been around for over a decade and our mission  f is to spotlight films that tackle an array of sensitive human rights issues near and far and so we take pride in being a human rights platform that really gives voice to filmmakers  who are at the front lines of some very sensitive issues and you're bringing in filmmakers really from all over the world and some of these films probably you wouldn't see them anywhere else except at the cinema absolutely i mean most of the film so this year we have thirty six films from thirty different countries and we have filmmakers from around the world will be presenting their films to our international community here and we're very proud to bring together a collection of films that many of which will be make there u s premieres and massachusetts premieres including our opening night film a woman captured which just made its u s debut at sundance last month so  we will be the next destination for the film and we're very proud to bring together such a diverse and inclusive program for our community well let's take a look here now at the trailer it's about ok great that was our previews for the documentaries that would be featured in the global cinema film festival next up we have a preview of some of the narrative shorts and that's another important aspect of the shore yes  our festival has an array of different genres so we have the documentary form we have the narrative form in short and feature form and also they're short documentaries as well so we try to put together a program that's not only global in terms of the origins of the film or the filmmaker themselves but that really come together in a way that can educate inform and hopefully inspire our community in terms of the issues that will be explored i mean issues ranging from the current syrian refugee crisis to one of the longest african conflicts in the congo so we're very proud of the collection  our twenty eight hundred programs and spotlighting what we feel are issues that deserve lobel attention ok well let's let's take a look now at the trailer for the narrative shorts and let's take a look at that now ok that was a preview of some of the narrative shorts that are going to be airing or playing at the global cinema filibuster will anything there you want to mention in particular anything that really catches your eye that people should be looking for well i mean you know as the executive director of the festival what i can say is that all these films in a way highlight the plight of the human condition around the world and each and every one of them is a contribution to cinema as it currently stands whether they're pushing technical boundaries of filmmaking or whether the poetic or visual element of these films i mean we have seen  incredible of aleutian not only of the documentary form but of the narrative storytelling techniques that we see in films today so when you get thousands of submissions and you're looking at each of these films and trying to decide what to program it has become so difficult but i think our mission is unflinching and our mission is simple it's films that make us care about the human condition year in far so i think every one of our selections in a way contributes to  who steps in two million ethical minefield where she pays off this family in order to gain access to really yes to film this worker who's working for this family who they've kind of changed her identity and she's been hel condition that's been created for her as i was watching and i just i want to see that whole story you know it's an incredible film because it's a it's an observational piece of really a condition that might seem foreign to us you know that might seem unimaginable but yet that's happening around the walden affects over forty five million people and i think the character that we get to meet in this film just moves us in so many ways and i think the filmmaker you know ethically you know tells this story of a woman who just simply wants to live a normal life and be a good mother to her daughter but yet she's captured by obstacles that hinder her path to progress and so it's a film that you know takes the filmmaker was very brave in capturing  footage and i think it's something that will keep us all on the edge of our seat but also it'll it'll get us thinking about you know the hostile world so a woman captured when i remind people that you can get the tickets for the global cinema film festival online we're showing that link is really where you want to go event bright absolutely folks have an option there you know between getting the all access v i p pass or individual tickets eleven let's take a look at a nother preview for a film called run and when i say a little bit about that briefly sure running is a short documentary i believe it was featured a globe docs last year  it's a film about some local boys that grew up together here in somerville so it's local really it is local and the director is both directors alex hogan and matthew or will be with us for q and a and you know it's a film that looks at the opioid drug addiction problem and the different forms of addiction and what it can do to our local communities and to our children and it's it couldn't be more timely you know in terms of what's happening in our country today running lost a lot of friends over the years you know a lot and i was told many that if you like a couple of friends and have and they do on the streets two thousand one hundred seven massachusetts residents died of addiction related causes in two ok here we are back on this special edition of belmont journal and we're featuring the global cinema film festival two thousand and eighteen with director the festival we've been looking at some of the previews talking about some of the films let's talk about a few more films that you featuring that you're excited about a taste of the met is when you mention shore yeah i mean we have some spotlight films this year and taste of cement directed by xian tool who's a syrian refugee who's currently  living in germany and it's a breathtaking visually stunning film that looks at the plight of syrian refugees and workers in lebanon on these are workers who are living in the shadows literally and they're in charge of the majority of the construction that's taking place eleven on eleven i had a very barbaric civil war you know and the seventy's and so what happens here is that the country is still pretty  much you know there's still a lot of noise taking place so even though they're not hearing the sounds of of guns on a daily basis even though they border syria the sound of construction is always affecting the people i see and so this is a film that looks at kind of the irony of these syrian workers who ran away from their homes that were destroyed in syria but now they're building homes for the lebanese government and it looks at the really terrible conditions that there are a there that they're living in in of all we all we also have a narrative feature film the best of all worlds from austria and the producer will will be with us for up to an essay by the way the director of taste of cement will also be with us for q and a ok and so the best of all worlds is a narrative know and it's a film that kind of plays with the border line of fiction and reality is this boy has to grow up and deal with some obstacles some insurmountable obstacles that him in his mother have to face what country are we talking about here austria austria the film is from australia again a theme that's actually being played out in cities across the united states in some fashion so get to take a look at the film this is congo directed by daniel mckay i believe one of the most powerful films of twenty seventeen period here is a film that looks at one of the longest ongoing conflicts in the world in the democratic republic of congo a conflict that has seen over five million deaths and climbing a conflict that has ravaged the human condition in the congo and it's an unfiltered look an immers e look that literally takes you to the frontlines of this human right catastrophe that's taking place in the congo and it's really a documentary that plays like a thriller it'll keep you at the edge of your seat but it will also give you an unbiased unfiltered look at what has been ravaging this this country and we'll also have the producer and editor of the film with us for q and a on closing night and that's on mar that's on march eleventh at seven pm ok let's take a look at that preview now for this  for security reasons all right we've been looking at some previews and talking about some of the films that are upcoming at the global cinema film festival here with rove jake up the director of the festival march eighth through the eleven studio cinema you can get your tickets where again so exclusively at the studio set of i'm very proud of that we've built a very strong relationship with this to your cinema but you can get your tickets at an event brite dot com ok we highly encourage everyone to get your tickets in advance  to avoid sold out shows and limited seating availability so very proud to have our third annual event and so our mission at g c f f is to bring the best of global cinematography to boston and we take pride in being one of the only platforms that really celebrates and spotlights documentaries human rights documentaries about the human condition near and far these are issues that may not be sexy per se but they are issues that are affecting millions of people around the war from modern day slavery to the plight of syrian war curse and lebannon  the longest ongoing african conflict in the congo here we have a tour around the globe as seen through the eyes of these filmmakers who will take us on a journey to explore the human condition and wow well said so i want to urge people out there to you can watch some global films locally here in belmont at the studio cinema march the eighth through the eleventh