Censoring Palestine | FILM TALK
A community screening of Censoring Palestine, the new documentary from Platform Films, exploring the growing restrictions on discussion of Palestine across British media, education, and public life.
Through first-hand accounts from journalists, educators, campaigners, and the mothers of two young women imprisoned for their peaceful activism, the film raises urgent questions about free expression and democratic space in the UK.
The screening will be followed by an open discussion led by members of Camden People’s Alliance (CPA), a volunteer-run community organisation working to connect local issues of justice and accountability with wider questions of rights and representation.
The event aims to create a reflective, inclusive space linking art, politics, and community life in keeping with P21’s principles of dialogue and collaboration.
‘Censoring Palestine’
A genocide is happening in Palestine, but our newspapers and TV aren’t telling us the truth. Even social media is being censored. Those who protest face dawn raids, arrest and jail. Dissent has been criminalised. This shocking documentary film exposes the most outrageous attack on free speech in modern times, investigating how truth is being constrained across mainstream and social media, education, and entertainment. It also examines how terrorism laws are used—or misused—to silence opposition. Featuring Ken Loach, Roger Waters, Alexei Sayle, Jackie Walker, Mothers of the Filton 24, Tony Greenstein and many more, this documentary is an urgent intervention in the debate about freedom of expression on Palestine.
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Chris Reeves studied film at St Martin’s and the Royal College Film School, receiving a BA and an MA, and has been involved in film making and distribution for 45 years. He was an associate of cinema action, a London-based collective which made rank and file trade union films on between 1968 and 1982.
With others he formed Platform Films in 1982 to make ‘The Cause of Ireland’ for Channel Four, a film which won the Tyne Award in 1984. Platform went on to make a five-part labour history series ‘The People’s Flag’, and ‘Proud Arabs and Texan Oilmen’ for the channel, and later made numerous inserts for BBC2’s disability magazine programme ‘From The Edge’ and a 3 part series on the life and death of a young disabled homeless man ‘Who Killed Mark Faulkner?’
Examples of Platform’s hundreds of non-broadcast films are: ‘The Miners’ Tapes (which won the Grierson Award for innovative documentaries)’, ‘Old Hands – British Labour Camps 1929-1939’, ‘The Human Shields’, ‘Justice for the Shrewsbury Pickets’ and ‘A Brief History of RMT’.
Recent productions include ‘Oh Jeremy Corbyn – The Big Lie’ which was screened 250 times despite systematic attempts to suppress it and has gained 175,000 views on YouTube, ‘Wapping The Workers’ Story’ and ‘Censoring Palestine’.
Platform is currently making films about Eric Gordon, founding editor of the Camden New Journal, the film collective cinema action, the commercialisation of social housing and an historical film on the Labour Party’s record in office.
Chris now a director, camera operator and editor, as well as being involved in digitising and archiving.
Platform Films – Independent documentary producers
Camden People’s Alliance (CPA) – Community-based organisation connecting local campaigns on housing, democracy, and social justice with global issues of rights and accountability.