Glasgow Premiere of Effie Samara's TAXI DRIVER
Glasgow Premiere of Effie Samara's TAXI DRIVER
UNESCO RILA
Date: Thursday 11 April 2024
Time: 17:00 - 19:00
Venue: Andrew Stewart Cinema, Gilmorehill Centre, 9 University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ
Category: Films and theatre
Speaker: Effie Samara, Alison Phipps
Website: bit.ly/TAXIDRIVERprem
Join us for an evening of film!
We are proud to host the Glasgow premiere of Effie Samara's film TAXI DRIVER at the Andrew Stewart cinema of the University.
TAXI DRIVER is a film about the poetic reality of life behind the wheel: the beauty, the fear, the precariousness and the laughter for a woman taxi driver as night falls on the landscape of the West of Scotland. The film fearlessly meanders through a year of the Driver's life to share the times of bonding, secrets, utter terror and shared hope and laughter to show the reality of women's work under the most extreme conditions. Supported by Creative Scotland and NEON NARUS Trust.
TAXI DRIVER has received nominations by the Paris International Short Festival, the Paris Lady Movie-Makers Festival and the New York International Women's Festival.
Effie Samara is a doctoral researcher and UNESCO Affiliate Artist at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Her work explores the dramaturges of exile in the contexts of democracy, justice and restorative art. She has written extensively in the areas of Human Rights, decolonising pedagogy and social justice and is the recipient of the Chancellor's Fund Award the European Cultural Foundation Award and the Playwrights' Studio Scotland Award. Her theatre and film work include SARTRE and the Poetic Constitution for Scotland supported by Creative Scotland, Arts Council England, the University of Glasgow and the British Academy.
Prior to the main film, we will be screening three animated shorts:
Resolution
By Lina Ghaibeh, George Khoury, Ellie Smith and Melanie Klinkner
Mass graves - sights of devastating human loss – are a tragically global phenomenon. ‘Resolution’ seeks to reflect the overwhelming need of families to know the fate and whereabouts of loved ones, their experiences of engaging with the forensic investigative process and the significance of having mortal remains returned to them for dignified commemoration.
This is Everyting I've Got
By Erdem Avşar & Ümit Ünal
Starting in an unlikely boarding school in Glasgow as a testament to the beauty of adolescent temptation to get lost in daydreams, fables, and books, This is Everything I’ve Got soon turns into a dark journey back home when a body goes missing from its grave. Weaving dozens of different characters, places, and borders through time, this auto-fictional play is an epic look at queerness, growing up, the glory of everyday life, and migration.
Unstoppable Beat
By PositiveNegatives
Created as part of the MIDEQ project, this film tells the story of a Haitian migrant in Brazil fighting for his rights to work, buy a house and most importantly, reunite with his family from Haiti.