Posted on 25th November 2010
The Middle East Journals of Tom Hurndall – LIVE PANEL TALK – FRIDAY 26TH NOVEMBER
THE ONLY HOUSE LEFT STANDING -
THE MIDDLE EAST JOURNALS OF TOM HURNDALL PANEL TALK TO LAUNCH FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN
FRIDAY 26TH NOVEMBER 2010
16.00-17.00 GMT (17h Central Europe, 11h East Coast US)
“What do I want from this life? What makes you happy is not enough. All the things that satisfy our instincts only satisfy the animal in us. I want to be proud of myself. I want more. I want to look up to myself and when I die, I want to smile because of the things I have done, not cry for the things I haven’t done.”
Tom Hurndall
“A brave man who stood alone. If only the world had listened to him… I wish I had met him because – looking back over the history of that terrible war – Hurndall’s journals (soon to be published) show a remarkable man of remarkable principle.”
Robert Fisk
Tom Hurndall, a young British photojournalist and peace worker, was shot in the head in Gaza in April 2003
whilst carrying Palestinian children to safety. He died nine months later in a London hospital. The book will
contain Tom’s photographs in the weeks running up to his shooting, as well as his personal writing from his
diaries and poems, and contains a preface by Robert Fisk.
Trolley are launching a crowdfunding campaign for our book ‘The Only House Left Standing – the Middle
East Journals of Tom Hurndall.’ The eight week campaign will launch on Friday 26th November, the day
before Tom’s birthday, with a panel talk commencing at 16.00 GMT. The panel includes:
• Tom’s parents Anthony and Jocelyn Hurndall
• John Sweeney – BBC Panorama journalist who did 2003 documentary ‘When Killing is Easy’ and Independent
article Silenced Witnesses
• Rowan Joffe and Simon Block – Director and Screenwriter of Channel 4 BAFTA-nominated film documentary
The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall
• Mohammed Qeshta – who was with Tom when we was shot and worked for the International Solidarity
Movement
• Gigi Giannuzzi - publisher and founder of Trolley Books
It will be an hour long panel discussion of people who know Tom’s story and will be filmed and streamed
live online to launch the fundraising campaign. The aim of this talk will be to engage the audience with
Tom’s work and the concept of the book, whilst encouraging people to donate money towards it.
The platform for the crowdfunding campaign will be Indiegogo, who support creative projects looking for much-needed financial support, especially those with a documentary basis. Please visit our page HERE for more updates and information shortly on how to pledge and the rewards you will receive in return for doing so. Indiegogo is a pledge-for-reward social platform where supporters of our project will be able to pledge anything from £5 upwards. For example a pledge of £25 effectively pre-orders a copy of the book and supporters will be the first to receive it when it is printed. An edited version of the talk will afterwards be uploaded to our Indiegogo page online….
Thanks to Beth Evans, James Cunningham at Streamingwizard, James Irwin at Focus24, Igor Degtiarec at Agile Films
Category: BOOK EVENTS 7 comments »
November 26th, 2010 at 11:59 am
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by FOTO8, telephoto. telephoto said: tune in online today at 4pm uk time for tom hurndall's middle east journals panel discussion, via trolley http://bit.ly/hD1mmS [...]
November 26th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
[...] The talk begins at 5pm this afternoon. Follow this link to watch it live on the Trolleybooks site. [...]
November 26th, 2010 at 3:46 pm
Will there be any profits, if so who is on the receiving end?
November 26th, 2010 at 4:19 pm
TALK TO START AT 5PM
November 26th, 2010 at 5:28 pm
So how can I contribute? I came here wanting to contribute having watched the panel discussion, and can’t see how to do it.
December 8th, 2010 at 3:53 pm
Hi Thomas,
The budget is such that there is not a massive profit on the book as we wanted to keep the price affordable – each book will cost €9.10 (our printers are in Italy so all the quotes are euro) to print for 3000 copies and the RRP is £24.99 (€29.95/$40). The book will be sold to shops and Amazon at a discount of roughly 40-60%, and then distributors and sales teams take a cut off this net too. We then also have to pay for design and pre-press production for the book. BUT if we receive enough money to cover all the printing costs there will be more money left as a ‘profit’, and any profits, or extra money raised, will go to our charity, the Trolley Charitable Trust Ltd, which helps to fund what we see as important projects by photographers such as Tom.
Hope this helps, feel free to ask any questions and will answer as best we can.
Hannah
December 8th, 2010 at 3:59 pm
Hi Alexandra,
sorry about the delay, we have been busy editing the footage to upload to our Indiegogo page, but we made the page live a few days ago as it is taking a little longer to edit than expected – there are so many important things said in the discussion it was hard to take things out… But thank you for bearing with us and hopefully the video will be there tomorrow, in the meantime the link is http://www.indiegogo.com/The-Middle-East-Journals-of-Tom-Hurndall?a=32159&i=addr
So please do spread the word!
many thanks for your support so far I hope you enjoyed the talk.
best
Hannah