Past Events and Screenings

Moldova is one of the main source countries for trafficking women and children, up to 10% of the female population are sold into prostitution abroad. Dana Popa will be speaking at the Frontline Club about the issues surrounding sex trafficking and her experiences as a photographer. Mark Sealy, director of Autograph-ABP will be moderating this event. Read more about this event on the Frontline Blog here: https://www.frontlineclub.com/blogs/theforum/2010/05/photographing-the-sex-trade.html

In The Vice Guide To Liberia, VBS travels to the capital city Monrovia to meet three men who participated in the 14 years of civil war that ravaged the West African country.

Download this episode View in iTunes Please note the new start time for this event of 7.30pm. Speakers on the night include Mail on Sunday reporter Peter Hitchens; Guardian social affairs reporter Amelia Gentleman and freelancer John Arlidge, who writes for the Sunday Times. With our chair Paddy O’Connell, the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s […]

What is the reality of the humanitarian aid industry and what impact is it having on the people at the receiving end? How is the money spent and is there enough accountability to make sure it is spent in the right way? Join us at the Frontline Club with Conor Foley author of Thin Blue Line: How Humanitarianism Went to War and Linda Polman author of War Games: The Story of Aid and War in Modern Times.

From the makers of Jesus Camp, Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, 12th & Delaware plants itself on the intersection of its title which is home to the bizarre setup of having an abortion clinic on one side of the street and a pro-life facility on the other. Unfolding over one year this is truly a war film, an ideological war that has the lives and future of the young women in the film at its core.

Join us at the Frontline Club from 7pm onwards to watch the General Election results in the Club room and Forum.

Paddy O’Connell of BBC Radio 4’s Broadcasting House will be in the chair for another of our First Wednesday discussions. First Wednesdays are an opportunity to debate with experts and commentators on a wide range of issues from domestic politics to international affairs, climate change and economics.

The Fear Factory is an eye-opening look into crime in British society today, how the public perception matches the true reality and how pivotal a voting issue it is. It examines how the media portrays our safety and for what end. The film is a timely look at a major voting issue and shows where truth and reality differ in the public eye.

Comedian, scriptwriter and journalist Jane Bussmann at the Frontline Club for a special one-off comedy night.

Seven years after the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq, New Internationalist co-editor Hadani Ditmars with special guests Hassan Abdulrazzak, who wrote the play Baghdad Wedding, gay rights activist Ali Hili, and writer Haifa Zangana discuss Iraq’s future.

Canon launches first MPEG-2 Full HD (4:2:2) file-based camcorders. Join Canon team for drinks and demonstration.

Shooting Under Fire follows Reinhard Krause, Reuters’ former chief photographer in Israel, in the last few weeks of his four-year assignment as his team of local Israeli and Palestinian photographers try to to give an objective portrayal of events in the volatile Holy Land.

Live from Bethlehem takes us behind the scenes of the only independent news network in the Palestinian Territories. A fast-paced, action-packed film that follows the staff of the Ma’an News Agency as they fight to provide Palestinians with a source of reliable news.

What goes through the mind of a Jihadist from America’s capital? American Jihadist explores militant Islam through the eyes of Isa Abdullah Ali – aka Clevin Raphael Holt – who fought in Lebanon and Bosnia for six years for what he calls “the pleasure of God by taking a stand to help the ill treated and oppressed”.

Join us at the Frontline Club, where, in association with Sky News, we will be broadcasting the second leaders’ debate live in HD, followed by a panel discussion with leading commentators and experts.

For our next Frontline Club networking party, we’re inviting members, guests and friends to join us in celebrating the very best in independent video journalism.

With the Archbishop of Jos, Benjamin Kwashi;Dr Khataza Gondwe, Christian Solidarity Worldwide Sub Saharan Africa team leader; Michael Peel, former West Africa Correspondent now Legal Correspondent for the Financial Times and author of A Swamp Full of Dollars; Dr Abdul Raufu Mustapha, University Lecturer in African Politics and Kirk-Greene Fellow at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford; more tbc.
Moderated by Lindsey Hilsum, International Editor for Channel 4 News.

Presumed Guilty goes far beyond being a snapshot of the flaws of Mexico’s judicial system or even a simple case of injustice. Instead it draws on the conventional structure of a courtroom drama to highlight a story that is so infuriating and emotional that you want to believe it’s not true.

The photographers behind the pictures taken in the aftermath of January’s earthquake in Haiti flocked to scenes of razed buildings and distraught victims. David Levene and Inigo Gilmore were among them. These accomplished Guardian journalists will be in conversation with the Guardian’s head of photography, Roger Tooth, about what the real images of the damage wrought by the Haiti earthquake are like, what is being censored out in the media and the role that photographers play in such tragedies.

View in iTunes Neil MacFarquhar, United Nations bureau chief for The New York Times, will be at the Frontline Club talking about life in the Middle East as told in his book The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday. Having grown up in the Middle East and spent more than 13 […]