Gimme Shelter
The world’s first film festival dedicated to climate-linked migration
Thursday 16 – Sunday 19 March 2017
Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle
16 – 19 March 2017, Newcastle UK
Gimme Shelter
The world’s first film festival exploring the connections between climate change and migration
15 events
4 days of films, workshops and exhibitions exploring climate change and migration
Newcastle, UK
Happening at Tyneside Cinema between the 14th and 19th of March
Thursday 16th March
EXHBITION: distant neighbours
Through Distant Neighbours Lucy Wood ultimately wants to create a visual global book spanning decades, which will amount to an archive and testimony to human movement available to future generations, at the centre of this work is people’s story telling. Exhibition...
SCREENING: The Age Of Consequences (80m) 2016 with Director Q&A 🗓 🗺
"The Hurt Locker meets An Inconvenient Truth" Age of Consiquences is show is part of the world's first film festival dedicated to climate linked migration The Hurt Locker meets An Inconvenient Truth, The Age Of Consequences investigates the...
ARTIST Q&A: Lucy wood, Distant Neighbours 🗓 🗺
Through Distant Neighbours Lucy Wood ultimately wants to create a visual global book spanning decades, which will amount to an archive and testimony to human movement available to future generations, at the centre of this work is people’s story telling....
Friday 17th March
SCREENING: Climate Refugees – with expert panel discussion 🗓 🗺
Followed by panel discussion with Professor Tahseen Jafy, Glasgow Caledonian University, Prof. Andrew Baldwin, Durham University and artist Kooj Chuhan. Climate Refugees is showing as part of the world's first film festival dedicated to climate linked migration...
SCREENING: A Syrian Love Story + Q&A with director Sean McAllister 🗓 🗺
Plus short film 9 Days From My Window in Allepo A Syrian Love Story is show as part of the world's first film festival dedicated to climate linked migration Amer, 45, met Raghda, 40, in a Syrian prison cell 15 years ago. He first saw her...
SCREENING: The Anthropologist (78 mins) – plus introductory talk 🗓 🗺
At the core of The Anthropologist are the parallel stories of two women: Margaret Mead, who popularised cultural anthropology in America; and Susie Crate, an environmental anthropologist currently studying the impact of climate change. This event as part of the...
Saturday 18th March
SCREENING: Beasts of the Southern Wild 🗓 🗺
Beasts of the Southern Wild Rating: 12a 1 h 33mShowing: March 19, 12:30 Showing: March 19, 2017 12:30 Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle Beasts of the Southern Wild is show is part of the world's first film festival dedicated to climate linked migrationIt would be too simple...
SCREENING: This Changes Everything 🗓 🗺
Inspired by Naomi Klein’s international non-fiction bestseller, this documentary attempts to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. This event as part of the world's first film festival dedicated to climate linked migration Inspired by Naomi...
SCREENING: The Crossing + Q&A with director George Kurian 🗓 🗺
This event as part of the world's first film festival dedicated to climate linked migration A first-hand account of the perilous journey made by a group of Syrian refugees. Traversing land and sea on an old fishing boat manned by smugglers, the...
WORKSHOP: Understanding climate change and migration 🗓 🗺
This event as part of the world's first film festival dedicated to climate linked migration Climate change will re-shape patterns of migration and displacement across the world. Altered patterns of extreme weather and disasters will force people from...
TALK: Displacement, climate change and disasters – before screening of Beasts of the Southern Wild 🗓 🗺
Get to grips with the links between climate change, disasters and displacement - before coming to a screening of Beasts of the Southern Wild This event as part of the world's first film festival dedicated to climate linked migration Explore some of the...
TALK: climate change and Syria 🗓 🗺
This event as part of the world's first film festival dedicated to climate linked migration In 2015 the media exploded with coverage linking climate change to the crisis in Syria. This lecture looks behind those headlines to explore the complex links...
Sunday 19th March
SCREENING: The Anthropologist (78 mins) 2015 + live Q&A with Dr Susan Crate (the subject of the film) 🗓 🗺
At the core of The Anthropologist are the parallel stories of two women: Margaret Mead, who popularised cultural anthropology in America; and Susie Crate, an environmental anthropologist currently studying the impact of climate change. This event as part of the...
SCREENING: Mediterranea (2015) (107m) 🗓 🗺
Two men make the dangerous journey from Africa to Italy for a better life, but then face hostility and violence in this shocking look at the life-and-death struggle of refugees. This event as part of the world's first film festival dedicated to climate linked...
SCREENING: Salam Neighbour (75m) 2015 + panel discussion 🗓 🗺
This event as part of the world's first film festival dedicated to climate linked migration Two filmmakers fully embed themselves in a Syrian refugee camp, providing an intimate look at the world's most dire humanitarian...
WORKSHOP: Moving Stories: the voices of people who move due to climate change 🗓 🗺
This workshop explores the experiences of people who have been forced to move by the impacts of climate change. This event as part of the world's first film festival dedicated to climate linked migration This workshop explores the experiences of people...
Festival special guest: film makers, artists and experts
Lucy Wood – artist
Professor Tahseen Jafry – Glasgow Calidonian University
Geroge Curian – Film maker
Kooj Chuhan – Film maker and artist
Dr Susan Crate – Anthrologist, Geroge Mason University
Sean McAllister – Film maker
David Putman – Film maker
Kooj Chuhan – Film maker and artist
Festival organizers and partners
Can any tell me, How can I attend this festival? I am also working on climate change and migration, with a consortium research.
I’m not able to get to NEwcastle for the Festival and wonder whether I will have a chance to follow it during or after the event on line?