About Us

The We The Peoples Film Festival takes its title from the opening words of the United Nations Charter.

The festival, which is now in its fourth year, strives to raise the profile of the United Nations by promoting its aims and work in development, security and human rights to new and existing audiences by inspiring and educating them through film.

The festival also endeavours to raise awareness and support in the United Kingdom and the global film industry for the development work of the UN, its agencies and NGOs.

As well as showing high quality films, the festival provides a forum for discussion about the issues portrayed, with experts from across the field.

The 2008 festival comprised four principal elements

• The Three Pillars of Freedom: Films relating to freedom from want, freedom from fear and the freedom to live in dignity.

• Young Film Makers for Development: Films produced by young people from across the globe on these subjects; the world’s first such event.

• London Schools Outreach Programme: Films screened in many of London’s ethnically diverse schools and attended by expert speakers.

• The ‘Best of the Festival’ DVD: These compilations are distributed to schools and key networks.