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G4C at two Festivals: Margaret Mead and Sundance
Posted by Benjamin Stokes on 11-06-06Games for Change is happy to announce we’ll be featured at two upcoming film festivals…
The first is this weekend in NYC at the Margaret Mead International Film and Video Festival, the longest-running showcase for international documentaries in the United States. The Festival is distinguished by its outstanding selection of titles, which tackle diverse and challenging subjects, representing a range of issues and perspectives, and by the forums for discussion with filmmakers and speakers. This is its 30th anniversary!
Our panel at Margaret Mead will take place in the Linder Theatre at the Natural History Museum from 3:45-5:45pm on November 11th. For parents, consider taking your kids to a documentary before or after, and then to this panel on games. The games we’ll feature include: Ayiti: the Cost of Life, a game allowing the player to assume the role of various family members living in rural Haiti; Darfur is Dying, a game which attempts to put the player in the shoes of one of the 2.5 million refugees who are fighting for survival in the Darfur region of Sudan; A Force More Powerful, a simulation which helps to train activists in techniques for peaceful resistance to oppression; and Tropical America, a game bringing the real-world terrors of investigating secret violence in the Americas.
Next up: we will also be featured at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City Utah in January 2007 - more details to follow.