Press Release 3
For
Immediate Release: 20/9/01
Film
Premiere
of Circling The Line
Saturday 22nd Sept 2001, Cinema City, 1pm
In July 2001 Michelle Savage travelled to Ghana to meet women who were setting up businesses with the help of a system of tiny loans called microcredit. Michelle is a member of the Norwich microcredit project Full Circle run by WEETU - the Women's Employment, Enterprise Training Unit. Michelle's business is making videos for voluntary organisations.
On Saturday 22nd September 2001 Michelle will be showing her film at Cinema City. The event begins at 1pm and will last approximately 45 minutes. Children are welcome and there is a free chocolate tasting session for all. There is also an exhibition of photographs from the film in Take 5 café bar.
Michelle,
a Film Studies graduate from UEA, expects the film to appeal to a wide
audience.
" If you are interested in starting your own business, you will be
inspired by what the women are achieving in Ghana; if you want to know
more about African culture and life, you will love the images and sounds;
if you are shopping in town on Saturday and you just want a break, then
come to Cinema City and be transported to the other side of the world."
There
will also be an opportunity to find out more about the local microcredit
project, Full Circle, that was started by another UEA graduate, Erika
Watson, director of Weetu. Says Ms Watson:
"I
first heard about microcredit when I was a mature student doing a degree
in Development Studies at UEA. I was confident that a system that was
helping women to start businesses in the developing world could also help
women here in Norfolk. I'm looking forward to Saturday and being able
to see what happens when women from the different cultures meet."
Michelle's
film was funded by a Millennium Award from On the Line which is a partnership
between Oxfam GB, Channel 4 and WWF-UK, and is the brainchild of Channel
4 broadcaster, Jon Snow. It focuses on the similarities of life and culture
from the UK to Ghana along the meridian line and aims is to change the
way we in the UK see, think and act towards the developing world.
ENDS
For general enquiries
see www.ontheline.org.uk
On The Line was founded by Oxfam GB, Channel
4 and WWF-UK and is registered charity, number 1073841
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