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Elephant In The Room: CPH:DOX Defends Democratic Values, Confronts Reality Of Trump Administration “Trying To Change The World Order”
CPH:DOX is defending freedom of expression and confronting Pres. Trump's effort to create a new world order.
“With several European countries being only one election away from voting for illiberal and anti-democratic leaders,” CPH:DOX managing director Katrine Kiilgaard said, “there’s more than an urgent need to bring forth the truthful stories and nuanced perspectives that the documentary genre cater to in order to uphold our democracy and shared democratic values in Europe and beyond.” Summit attendees heard from Donata Von Perfall, managing director of Documentary Campus which she explained “is an international training organization, fostering emerging talents and creators with tailor-made workshops, symposia like today’s, conferences around the world.” She noted that it also puts on the Silbersalz Festival, an event at the intersection of science, media, technology, and art, which is held in the town of Halle – in a part of Germany that showed strong support for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, propelling it recently to unprecedented gains in national elections. “This was the trick that Putin had discovered and used it for many, many years and decades successfully to maintain his power,” Grozev noted, “which was that it doesn’t matter if there’s [nominal] freedom of speech as long as you control the majority of the funnel of the information.
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