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A collection of 8 short films will be featured at the recent Rome Film Festival. The film which was initially being held as a UN initiative is not really commissioned by them. The film talks about the decision to reduce world poverty to half by 2015. The film sets out to make the public aware of the existence of this campaign and of the need for action.

The films included in this initiative are as follows

Abderrahmane Sissako shot in Addis Ababa Ethiopia “Tiya’s Dream”
Gael Garcia Bernal shot in Reykjavik Iceland “The Letter”
Gasper Noe shot in Ouagadougou Burkina Faso “SIDA”
Mira Nair shot in Brooklyn USA “How can it be?”
Jane Campion shot in Cooma – Australia “The Water Diary”
Gus Van Sant shot in San Francisco USA “Mansion on the Hill”
Jan Kounen shot in Peruvian Amazonia “The Story of Panshin Beka”
Wim Wenders shot in Berlin Germany “Person to Person”

The world premier of the full length film 8 will take place on the opening day of the Rome film festival on 23rd October 2008. You can check out some of the stills and making of the movie at www.8themovie.com.