La PIROGUE, FESTIVAL de CANNES, Un Certain Regard Selection. Director, Moussa Touré, Producers: Eric Névé, Omar Sy, Adrien Maigne

Thank you to all those who supported Migrant Rights Network and Portland Green Cultural Projects' charity screening of Moussa Touré’s La Pirogue, Festival de Cannes Official Selection, Un Certain Regard on November17 at Riverside Studios, London. The screening and talk -chaired by art historian, Director, V&A East Museum and BBC and Channel 4 presenter, Gus Casely-Hayford - was nearly sold out. La Pirogue tells the story of a group of African men who leave Senegal in a pirogue captained by a local fisherman to undertake the treacherous crossing of the Atlantic to Spain where they believe better lives and prospects are waiting for them. The event, benefited the ongoing work of the presenters in migrant rights and film and launched ‘Our Day 2013′, a month long series of events organised by UK migrants’ rights groups culminating on 18 December, the United Nationals official International Migrants Day.

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