Philip Lee studied modern languages at the University of Warwick (Coventry) and conducting and piano at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Since 1975 he has been on the staff of the World Association for Christian Communication, where he is currently General Secretary and editor of the international journal Media Development. His publications include The Democratisation of Communication (ed.) (1995), Requiem: Here's Another Fine Mass You've Gotten Me Into (2001), Many Voices, One Vision: The Right to Communicate in Practice (ed.) (2004), Communicating Peace: Entertaining Angels Unawares (ed.) (2008). In 2013, he was awarded Doctor of Theology honoris causa by the Academy of Ecumenical Indian Theology and Church Administration, Chennai, India.
General Secretary of WACC
Country of origin
Canada
Articles
The Berlin Film Festival celebrated its 60th birthday in style with a poster listing the titles of 15,477 films shown so far, a photographic exhibition entitled ‘Star Parade’, and an art installation of recycled festival billboards, film footage, and other materials called ‘The Curtain’ preceding an open-air screening at the Brandenburg Gate of Fritz Lang’s fully restored 1927 masterpiece 'Metropolis'.
Festivals
Current issues
"Defiant" by director Visa Koiso-Kanttila wins the Prize of the Church Media Foundation in Finland at the International Chidren's and Youth Festival in Oulu 2025.
The Hof Film Festival is now in its 58th year and has become a hallmark of the city, which is why Hof likes to call itself the “Home of Films,” a phrase that is said to have originated with Wim Wenders. In the late 1960s and 1970s, the Munich film scene came to Hof (...). As a nostalgic reminder, this year there was a 35mm screening of Fassbinder's early work “Gods of the Plague”. Peter Paul Huth reports about the festival.
Events
16.02.2025
Haus der EKD, Charlottenstraße 53/54, 10117 Berlin
11.10.2023
Café of the Propsteikirche Leipzig, Nonnenmühlgasse 2