webcasts and more ...

• browse through the official FerMUN website (www.fermun.org), familiarise yourself with everything you can find therein and make sure you subscribe to the FerMUN newsletter

• get a glimpse of the FerMUN 2015 Issues and Committees which focus on "Engaging Youth on the Post-2015 Agenda"

• visit the official FerMUN Facebook page, like it and ask to get notifications! Browse through theIR endless photos stream form last year's conference

• visit the official FerMUN Twitter page and follow FerMUN to stay up-to-date

• watch all the FerMUN 2014 videos from last year's session to get into the right frame of mind and to whet your MUN appetite for FerMUN 2015!

• watch the film "THE INTERPRETER" (for free online at http://ffilms.org//?s=the+interpreter) and get into ... the FerMUN spirit :)
• feel free to add your comments, queries, remarks, etc by just clicking on the padlet canvas

The film that was granted special permission to be shot for the first time ever inside the United Nations Organisation Headquarters in NYC!

• FILMING IN UN BUILDINGS

Parts of The Interpreter were filmed inside the U.N. General Assembly and Security Council chambers. The producers approached the U.N. about filming there before, but their request was turned down. The production would have relocated to Toronto with a constructed set; however, this would have substantially increased costs, and so Sydney Pollack approached then-Secretary-General Kofi Annan directly, and personally negotiated permission to film inside the United Nations. Annan commented on The Interpreter that "the intention was really to do something dignified, something that is honest and reflects the work that this Organization does. And it is with that spirit that the producers and the directors approached their work, and I hope you will all agree they have done that."

Ambassadors at the U.N. had hoped to appear in the film, but actors were asked to play the roles of diplomats. Spain's U.N. Ambassador Inocencio Arias jokingly complained that his "opportunity to have a nomination for the Oscar next year went away because of some stupid regulation."

[The UN and UN Interpreters: http://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/detail.jsp?id=189/189118&key=9&query=%22the%20interpreter%22%2020014&sf=]

Escalating events begin when U.N. interpreter Silvia Broome alleges that she has overheard a death threat against an African head of state, spoken in a rare dialect few people other than Silvia can understand. With the words "The Teacher will never leave this room alive," in an instant, Silvia's life is turned upside down as she becomes a hunted target of the killers. Placed under the protection of federal agent Tobin Keller, Silvia's world only grows more nightmarish. As Keller digs deeper into his eyewitnesses' past and her secretive world of global connections, the more suspicious he becomes that she herself might be involved in the conspiracy. With every step of the way, he finds more reasons to mistrust her. Is Sylvia a victim? A suspect? Or something else entirely? And can Tobin, coping with his own personal heartache, keep her safe? Though they must depend on one another, Silvia and Tobin couldn't be more different. Silvia's a UN interpreter whose strengths are words, diplomacy and the subtleties of meaning, while Tobin is all about instinct, action and reading into the most primal human behaviors. Now, as the danger of a major assassination on U.S. soil grows and Silvia's life hangs in the balance, Silvia and Tobin play out a gripping dance of evasion and revelation that keeps them both guessing as they race to stop a terrifying international crisis before it's too late. (Written by Sujit R. Varma)

[SOURCE: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373926/plotsummary?ref_=tt_stry_pl]

(ARTICLE) "Welcome to FerMUN 2015"

(ARTICLE) "That exciting pre-MUN feeling"

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thank you very much for your kind messages. Please find attached an article which was published yesterday in the local newspaper. 

A good exercice for those of you who do not speak French ;-) (ask your students!)

all the best,

Florence

Florence BAUDRY

FerMUN Director Coordinator

"Je suis Charlie"