LONDON.- This year’s BRITDOC program showcases the top international and British documentary films from the last twelve months – all receiving their first UK screening at the festival, which takes place at Keble College, Oxford, 25th – 27th July. Festival delegates will have the opportunity to view an award winning selection of feature length and short documentary films on a broad range of subjects – from genocide in Darfur to a film about a typeface!

BRITDOC truly has something for everybody’s taste- from heart-wrenching WE ARE TOGETHER, which follows the story of 12 year old Slindile and the children of the Agape Orphanage in South Africa as they overcome the hardships of AIDS through song, to the intriguing HELVETICA, a film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture.

The Screen International British Feature Competition includes ALIVE DAY, which follows 12 severely injured American soldiers from the war in Iraq, including a triple amputee, as they take a white water rafting trip down the Grand Canyon. Also in this section is the difficult to watch, yet impossible to ignore, CHINA’S STOLEN CHILDREN from the filmmakers of The Dying Rooms who explore how the infamous one child policy has had the horrific side effect of a boom in stolen children.

In the International Feature Competition delegates will find: Sundance 2007 Award winning MANDA BALA, a painstakingly crafted tapestry about life in Brazil; alongside Morgan Spurlock’s latest producing project WHAT WOULD JESUS BUY?; Chicago Documentary Film Festival winner THE MONASTERY: MR VIG AND THE SON which tells the story of the 82 year old bachelor Mr Vig as he pursues his life long dream of turning his castle into a monastery; and THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK which exposes the violence and tragedy taking place in Darfur through the eyes of an American official military observer.

The special theme for BRITDOC 07 is Documentary meets Art, and this theme is explored in the Documentary meets Art Shorts Program, and with a special archive screening of DIAL H-I-S-T-O-R-Y the acclaimed hijacking documentary that eerily foreshadowed 9-11 by Johan Grimonprez. Delegates also have the opportunity to see the winners of the Studio Artois 3 Minute Wonder Competition: Adventures in Recycling and talent spot at the FourDocs Shorts Competition.

The BRITDOC Festival is the essential annual meeting of every key player in British feature documentary production. BRITDOC brings to the UK, the leading international film producers, distributors, and financiers to meet British talent face to face. The festival is brought to you by a new and innovative organisation, The Channel 4 British Documentary Film Foundation which gives grants and assistance to British independent filmmakers. The films shown at the festival represent the top documentaries the world and the UK has to offer – and are all screening in the UK for the first time at BRITDOC 07.