lettera27 is a non-profit foundation, born in July 2006. Its mission is to support the right to literacy, education, and the access to knowledge and information. 
lettera27 is the 27th letter of the alphabet, the missing letter, the letter yet to be, the hybrid sign, the empty box, the link between oral and written words, the connection to the future, the intersection of analogic and digital.
WikiAfrica
WikiAfrica Cinema at Festival di Cinema Africano di Verona
November 10, 2009
WikiAfrica Cinema at Festival di Cinema Africano di Verona
From 13th to 21st November 2009 is held the 29th edition of the Festival di Cinema Africano di Verona. Also this year the Festival supports WikiAfrica Cinema, setting free of copyright part of its film archives on Wikipedia. During the festival, lettera27 proposes the learning module "Cinema and Wikipedia in schools: new accesses for African cinema", aimed at upper secondary school.
WikiAfrica Cinema aims at bringing the African Cinema on Wikipedia to give international visibility to films, festivals, actors and producers. Copy left is the most powerful distribution system. WikiAfrica Cinema involves in particular students, experts and cultural institutions and it encourages the production of articles, quotations, books, essays, interviews with African directors.
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"As a man on earth": the book.
November 04, 2009
"As a man on earth": the book.
Come un uomo sulla terra (Like a man on earth) is the documentary by Andrea Segre, Riccardo Biadene and Dagmawi Yimer, that has broken the silence on the agreements between Italy and Libya and has unveiled the terrible violence suffered by migrants arrested and dismissed in Libya.
Come un uomo sulla terra is now in bookstores in uncut version and accompanied by a new book of testimonies of the Migrant Memories Archive from Asinitas association curated by Marco Carsetti and Alessandro Triulzi. Enriched by Ascanio Celestini's preface and by the introduction of Christine Weise, president of the Italian Section of Amnesty International, the book is published by Infinito edizioni.
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