Film “8”
Author(s): Abderrahmane Sissako, Jan Kounen, Jane Campion, Gus Van Sant, Wim Wenders, Mira Nair, Gaspar Noé, Gael Garcia Bernal
Publisher: Veolia Water
Publication date: 2008
Language: English
Overview
In September 2000, building upon a decade of major United Nations conferences and summits, world leaders came together at United Nations Headquarters in New York to adopt the United Nations Millennium Declaration, committing their nations to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty and setting out a series of time-bound targets - with a deadline of 2015 - that have become known as the Millennium Development Goals
Eight filmmakers who are committed to fighting poverty and want to share with us their view of these goals have each made a short film. Each film deals with one of the Millennium Goals.
These eight short films have been brought together to create the film "8".