Steps for Democracy What does Democracy mean to You? Steps for Democracy will bring you ten challenging documentaries about democracy, produced by independent filmmakers from around the world. Picture: Prabhakar Khatale's sister holds up his portrait in Ashti village, Wardha. Her brother was one of the thousands of farmers who recently committed suicide facing the rural crisis in the world's greatest democracy. Photo: P.Sainath
	A Global TV event to create global debate Steps for Democracy aims to create a genuinely global event and debate. Broadcasters throughout the world will transmit the 10 documentaries simultaneously in January 2007. Radio, Internet, debates to boost worldwide distribution The global debate will be backed by public discussions, radio programmes, internet and a special distribution programme for educational purposes. First films commissioned Three films have been commissioned for the Steps For Democracy project: Weijun Chen's China Child Democracy, Thomas Balmes's Bigger Garden and Jehane Noujaim's Mastermind of Democracy. Projects for development Steps For Democracy project group received some 300 proposals from all over the world. By end of June, 12 projects have received development money for manuscript and/or research.   Did you vote in the last elections? Yes No Documentary Film Festival in Marseille See what´s going on from 1st to 6th July 2005 in the 16 International Documentary Film Festival of Marseille. Sundance And, please do visit the Sundance Online Film Festival 2005. The Debate is on A lot of interesting debates are on at the D-Word Forum discussion site. Note: this site demands separate registration. See the Democracy trailer See the trailer and other information from the Steps for Democracy interim site. Steps International Steps for Democracy is a worldwide documentary project by STEPS International