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The World Disabled Peoples' Culture & Art Festival in 2009: Disabled Peoples' Human Rights Film Festival, Korea

We hope your endless development. We are the Organizing Committee of the World Disabled Peoples' Culture & Art Festival in 2009, the Executive Committee of Disabled Peoples' Rights Film Festival and Jeju DPI(Regional branch of DPI Korea).

Jeju DPI has organized the Disabled Peoples' Human Rights Film Festival every year since 2000 to eradicate social prejudice against persons with disability, to share the culture of the disabled with general public and to improve the ability of creating films by the disabled through films and movies.

This year marks 10th anniversary of the film festival. Also this year, we have a plan to organize the World Disabled Peoples' Culture & Art Festival to strengthen international cooperation by inducing social interest to the disabled's culture & art and by guaranteeing participative opportunity for culture & art by the disabled in the space of exchange and harmony among persons without disabilities and the disabled artists from home and abroad.

The 10th Disabled Peoples' Human Rights Film Festival is planning to hold on October and the World Disabled Peoples' Culture & Art Festival will be held from Oct.16th to 23rd. We want to increase the number of foreign films(movie and documentary etc.) within the program of the film festival. Therefore, we ask you to recommend or give information about films, which was made or is making, related to the real life of disabled, disabled issues and efforts to improve disabled peoples's human rights in each country.

We ask you to send film's information including title, director, brief story and contact address by Mar. 31st.

Contact: Organizing Committee of the World Disabled Peoples' Culture & Art Festival in 2009/the Executive Committee of Disabled Peoples' Human Rights Film Festival as below information.

Additional Information

Country: Republic of Korea
Website: http://www.dpiap.org/downloads/2009/news/korea-arts-festival.pdf
Email: lys4444@dpicf.or.k
Phone: 82-2-969-0420
Contact Person: Lee Young-suk
Source: DPI-Korea
When: 11/5/2009

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