Photo: Marla Aufmuth/TED
Interested in: Freedom, Equality, Dignity, Discrimination, LGBT rights, No torture, Freedom of movement, Prisons
“I want to tell stories that are ignored, find truths that are kept secret, and challenge mainstream narratives in order to surprise audiences and complicate the simplified.”
Saeed Taji Farouky is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and artist specializing in long-term human rights projects. His latest documentary Tell Spring Not to Come This Year won the Amnesty International Award and the Audience Choice Panorama Award at Berlinale 2015. In 2011, he was named a Senior TED Fellow, and he was previously named Artist-In-Residence at the British Museum and Tate Britain. He has been a regular human rights speaker and educator with Amnesty International for 10 years and has been teaching filmmaking and cinematography since 2009.
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