INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF THE BIG STORY OF NEWS AND SOCIETAL DOCUMENTARY

USPA NEWS - FIGRA is an International Festival Grand Reportage and society documentary. It is celebrating its 22nd edition and will take place at Le Touquet from March 25 to 29. This edition is dedicated to journalists of Charlie Hebdo and victims of the attacks of January 2015.

PROGRAMMING FOR BETTER UNDERSTANDING AND DECRYPT THE BREAKING INFORMATION AND WORLDWIDE----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIGRA was created and designed by Georges-Bouaret Brand, General Delegate, FIGRA Takes Place in the Nord-Pas de Calais Region since 1993. The festival was held in "Le Touquet Paris-Plage" until 1997, then at Lille until 2000, "New Century". The Festival returns in March 2002 in the station of the four seasons, back to the originel city that hosted initially in 1993.------------------------------------------------------------------FIGRA offers a rich and dense programming, where cross all sights on the world, all the stories that give this reality, often difficult, dangerous, an incredible human dimension. It is also the magic of the big screen, which gives in to see the world as it is, allows us all to better understand it and to decrypt it.---------------------------------- By passing in all these countries, living with all the characters from the films, we better understand the vital role played by journalists and documentary filmmakers in the chain of information to citizens. Increasingly, we will have to ask ourselves about the values we bring together and do everything so that they are protected, developing the only weapon that makes sense: knowledge!--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The general programming FIGRA * reflects the world as it is today. This is a dive in many dangerous and difficult situations. All these are testimonies to reinforce, if necessary, now more than ever, the pressing need to be informed as a citizen in a great democracy. " declared George Marque Bouaret, President of FIGRA.-------------------------------------------------------------------

TRIBUTE TO JOURNALISTS AND VICTIMS OF CHARLIE'S ATTACK-------------------------------------------------------- "It is this need to denunciate that journalists of "Charlie Hebdo" were killed in a barbaric act. So how not to dedicate this edition, to the ones who are dead because they thought stupidly, and sometimes viciously, that freedom of expression had neither prices nor limit, as long as it was attached by caricature, another form of truth. It is painful for those who think freely, to become threatened for an article, a book, a drawing, an exhibition or a show. A permanent struggle agrees not to sink into fear or worse, in self-censorship" said George Marque Bouaret, President of FIGRA.------------------------------------------------------------------ So this 22nd edition of Figaro was performed live with them in mind, as it was impossible to believe in their death, their accompanying our lives for so long. More than ever FIGRA celebrates the courage of journalists covering the world to witness and inform us.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The discussions this year bear the imprint of this will with Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in an exceptional evening "The information in the viewfinder" and the exhibition "We are together" by Camille Lepage, photojournalist died in Africa Centre the age of 26 on May 14, 2014.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- With Amnesty International, we initiated the "Impact Prize" that rewards a film that could alter, modify or change a given situation, somehow "Change the World". Some drawings made around human rights are exposed to mark the attachment of FIGRA at all eyes on the world.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Then the "Great SCAM Debate" (Civil Society of Multimedia Authors) addresses a reference in theme referred to a phrase often heard: "We chose not to show these images" at the same time asking the question "Can we show everything? Tell all "that puts directly or indirectly involved, those that deliver information: journalists. Fighting for that the spirit of January 11 continues, this implies a real collective and constant awareness.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------(See article http://www.newsrama.uspa24.com/bericht-3194/2-million-of-silent-republican-march-in-paris-including-50-heads-of-state.html. For more information see: www.figra.fr, www.scam.fr, www.fr.rsf.org-----------------------------------------------------