VIDEO: Press release - Launch: UN1325. Engage Understand Act Animation Film

The animated film UN1325 ENGAGE UNDERSTAND ACT produced by gender specialist and social researcher Ingrid Quinn and French/Americanartist Pippo Lionni and distributed by Videoseeding.com will go viral/global across social media sites on 20 October 2010 (YouTube, Facebook etc). It will be screened throughout the upcoming UN Peace Fair in New York, 26-29 October 2001. The film UN1325 ENGAGE UNDERSTAND ACT is a call to action. The film intends to provoke thought on the disproportionate impact, inequalities and struggles faced by women in war. It calls for the urgent implementation UN1325.

The 31st of October 2010 marks the 10th anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 Women, Peace and Security (‘UN1325').

UN1325 was passed unanimously and is the first formal and legally binding instrument from the United Nations Security Council that requires parties at war to: respect women's rights, protect women and girls in conflict, increase the influence of women in decision making and peace negotiations and involve women post-conflict rebuilding. The resolution underscores the responsibility to protect women and girls from human rights abuses, including gender- based violence.

UN1325 is among the most effective yet under-utilized tool for both civil leaders and citizens to hold states and individuals accountable to ensure women's full participation in preventing and resolving conflict, promoting peace and security and protecting women in times of conflict and peace.

The film UN1325 ENGAGE UNDERSTAND ACT is a call to action. The film intends to provoke thought on the disproportionate impact, inequalities and struggles faced by women in war. It calls for the urgent implementation UN1325.

Ingrid Quinn is a social scientist, research consultant and gender specialist. Understanding the power of visual media to address strategically complex problems and curious about the possibilities of merging design and development theory, research and practice to create new ways of seeing, doing, creating and communicating, Ingrid works with experts across the North/South divide in the fields of information design, communication, health and human rights. For the past decade Ingrid has worked in post conflict and disaster contexts throughout Asia. Focusing on the promotion of women's rights, women's empowerment and gender equality, Ingrid works in advisory and consulting capacities to the United Nations and international non-government organizations (INGOs). Her research spans a wide range of topics including gender equality in Asia, women and conflict, gender and displacement, sex work and violence against women. For more information see www.ingridquinn.com.

Pippo Lionni Artist. An American born in New York, Pippo has been living in Paris since the early eighties. His multicultural background and multidisciplinary education have resulted in a variety of activities and forms of expression; big wall installations, projected animations and paintings. He was awarded the distinction of « Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres » by the French Ministry of Culture in 2001.

Using animation as a means to play with the duality between the abstract and the figurative, Pippo has been showing his « facts of life » series since 1998. Whatever the medium - a collection of small fluorescent booklets, installations in art galleries, prints and animations - he operates a “re-appropriation” in the use of pictograms, bringing them to life through a critical satire of our social existence. By means of an unceasing narrative and playful coming and going, his use of animation offers a new level of comprehension. Pippo Lionni regularly participates in solo and group exhibitions on the international art scene. For more information see www.lionni.com

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