Peace One Day
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The film project Peace One Day was the vision of British filmmaker Jeremy Gilley. Jeremy was born in 1969. He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company at 17 before acting professionally for a decade. He started P.U.R.E Productions in 1994 to make his own films. Jeremy's inspiration for Peace One Day came from the message "the media has a responsibility to instigate positive change".
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[edit] Background
At the Womad music festival, Jeremy had an idea: what if there was one day when the world stopped fighting? A worldwide ceasefire - a non-violence day? A Peace Day? In 1998, Jeremy began meeting with students, peace negotiators, NGOs, government representatives, heads of state, United Nations' officials, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson, Secretary General of the League of Arab States Amre Moussa, Peace Laureate and former Israeli President Shimon Peres, former Costa Rican President and Nobel Peace Laureate Oscar Arias Sanchez, Nelson Mandela and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. He learned that a UN resolution would be the best way to establish such a day. He filmed all of his travels and meetings and compiled them to create the documentary film Peace One Day. After years of persistence and hard work, Jeremy's dream came true. On 7 September 2001, a United Nations General Assembly Resolution (A/Res/55/282), put forward by the UK and Costa Rican governments, was unanimously adopted by UN member states formally establishing an annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence on the UN International Day of Peace - Peace Day - fixed in the global calendar on 21 September.
[edit] Peace One Day Concerts
Since the release of his film, Jeremy and his team have worked to promote awareness of Peace Day. Peace One Day has received support from Annie Lennox, Angelina Jolie, Dave Stewart, Jimmy Cliff, Faithless, Neneh Cherry, One Giant Leap, Zero 7, Badly Drawn Boy, Joseph Fiennes, Sir Richard Branson and the late Mo Mowlam. This support contributed to the massive success of two concerts at Brixton Academy in London on Peace Day in 2002 and 2003. This year, 2007, the Peace One Day team has organized a massive concert on Peace Day at the Royal Albert Hall in London headlining Annie Lennox with Yusuf Islam, Corinne Bailey Rae, James Morrison, Kate Nash, and Marc Almond. The concert will also include specially filmed pieces from Jude Law, David Beckham, and Lord David Puttnam. Also included in Peace One Day's supporters are Stella McCartney, Marc Jacobs and Toby Mott, who each created t-shirts sold on the Peace One Day website.
[edit] Education Initiatives
Peace One Day has spread awareness through the creation of the Peace One Day Citizenship Resource Pack in May 2006. The second edition of the resource pack will incorporate 3 new lessons on sport, music and the environment, and is available through sponsorship from Ecover free to all UK secondary schools beginning in August 2007.
[edit] Current and future developments
Jeremy Gilley has now completed a second feature documentary, The Day After Peace. This documentary shows the real-life results of Peace Day 21 September around the world, including life-saving initiatives by leading humanitarian organisations. The film includes footage of the visit to Afghanistan by Jeremy and Jude Law. It was premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 19th 2008 and will be shown on September 21, 2008, at a Gala screening at the Royal Albert Hall, London. [1]
[edit] References
- ^ Peace One Day celebration Peace One Day, (official home page), accessed May 31, 2008.
