The Let’s All Be Free Film Festival explores and celebrates what 'being free' means to you as an individual, and to our world.
LABF Festival 2017, will be a continuing celebration and exploration of what being free means to people from all across the globe with its fifth edition.
As a participant, you are contributing to a worldwide movement meant to make allies out of strangers, and find similarities through differences.
The festival will seek to screen the most brilliant and thoughtful international films, all struggling to define: What does being free mean to you? You will be surrounded by a group of diverse individuals who are curious about the answer to this question. This shared curiosity, along with the medium of film, will be our common language.
It will be a festival of learning; exploring; and aesthetic enjoyment; of familiarity and occasional discomfort. We hope you laugh; sympathize; become inspired, uneasy, or unsure; but in the end find hope from many points of view. We hope your assumptions will be challenged; your energies renewed; and your mind opened to the possibilities and definitions of a freer future.
What that freedom will mean to you, well – that’s something only you can discover. We only hope to celebrate and honour that journey to your answer. (Or non-answer.)
Make sure you are part of our continuing adventure, and that your personal contribution joins the film 'dialogue' that will help define what a freely lived life can mean.
We seek to create a comfortable and open forum that will encourage constructive dialogue, and debate around the notion of being free, with the aim of creating greater understanding and awareness around this vital issue.
We also hold great festival parties that include live music, and celebration of food and drink from around the world. These are always great forums for our participants, special guests, and audiences to mingle, network, and to simply enjoy while sharing creative ideas.
We welcome anyone who is interested in becoming involved, in whatever way you can. If you have something to say about what being free means to you, then we want to hear it.
"The Let’s All Be Free Film Festival was brilliant” (Hannah Khalil, BBC)
“Definitely a bright new star on London’s film festival circuit” (Life Is A Festival)
"We loved being at Let's All Be Free! Amazing films and people!" (Rachael Henley, actress - Chronicles of Narnia)
"Wow - the Let's All Be Free Film Festival was one of the best independent film festivals I've been to in years." (Maggie Gogler, producer)
Let’s All Be Free was founded in 2012 by award-winning film director Tariq Nasir, who has been exploring issues of equality and what it means to be free all his life. Born in New York to an American mother and a Palestinian father, Tariq has always wanted to improve communication and understanding between people; a shared aim of the Let’s All Be Free project.
With its overwhelmingly successful start, and now five years old, The Let’s All Be Free Film Festival has caught the world’s attention - and we want you to be part of the next one!
For more information about the LABF Festival 2017, check out our website at www.letsallbefree.com
Fiction Category - 1st Prize of £300
Documentary Category - 1st Prize - A trip to the US to participate for 5 days as artist in residence at the Center for Documentary Studies, at Duke University.
Expressions Category - 1st Prize of £150
Rising Star Award - £150