2003 Series
October
7-November 12
Human Rights Film Series
Free screenings and discussion
5:30 p.m. each Wednesday, Wechsler Theater, Mary Graydon Center
(and on the Tuesday before at the Washington College of Law!)
A festival that shows how film and video can
make a difference for human rights. Discussions with expert speakers
and reception follows all screenings.
Click
here for resource pages, AU Library call numbers and speaker information>>
Oct.
8 The
Day I Will Never Forget. An inspiring look at what
women in Kenya today are doing to resist female circumcision,
with characters you will never forget; the film that everyone
was talking about at last year's Sundance filmfest! Prefaced by
the short Rebel
from grassroots Media that Matters Film Festival with attendees
eligible for free festival DVD!
Oct.
15 The
Damned & The Sacred (aka Dans, Grozny Dans). The extraordinary
and touching story of Chechnyan children--many of them orphans--whose
dance group goes on a European tour. Prefaced by an excerpt from
Greetings
from Grozny, the top-rated TV series Wide Angle; secret
cameras capture forbidden images from the Chechnyan war.
ALSO, Photo exhibit by award-winning
area photographer Steve Rubin, taken in an INS detention center.
Oct.
22 War
Takes with filmmaker Patricia
Castaño. When peace talks begin
in 1999 in Colombia, two veteran filmmakers begin an on-camera
diary--an intimate, untold, and sometimes surreally funny story
of living inside political crisis, and a unique insight on obstacles
to the peace process. Prefaced with Copwatch
from Media That Matters, showing how an organization of activists
are fighting police brutality in US cities. Letter
from the Directors – Adelaida Trujillo and Patricia Castaño.
Resources
on the issues presented in War Takes provided by the Center for
Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Oct.
29 Drowned
Out. Indian villagers refused to move out of the path
of the gigantic Narmada dam project; filmmaker Fanny Armstrong
joined their struggle and chronicled it. Prefaced by Esmeraldas,
from the Media That Matters film festival, on Ecuadoran indigenous
resistors to oil drilling and industrial pollution. Win a free
MTM festival DVD!
Nov.
5 The
New Americans: Episode I with
filmmaker Gordon Quinn. NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
of the debut film in a pathbreaking series on today's immigrant
experience. The acclaimed filmmakers of Hoop Dreams and Stevie
followed immigrants from Nigeria, Palestine, and the Dominican
Republic, from their old homes to their new ones. Filmmaker Gordon
Quinn will be present! Prefaced by No
Escape, Prison Rape, from from the grassroots Media
That Matters film festival, on human rights violation in U.S.
prisons.
ALSO, photo exhibit of work by members of Service Employees International
Union, many of whom are also immigrants.
Nov.
12 Bringing
Down A Dictator with filmmaker Steve York. The amazing
story of the citizen movement against Serbian dictator Milosevic,
using rock and ridicule as weapons. Prefaced by an excerpt from
Wide Angle, Media
by Milosevic.
In
conjunction with Mediarights.org, the Center for Social Media
is proud to offer free DVD copies of the Media That Matters Film
Festival to organizations who would like to screen this years
selections to their own groups. Please email
the Center for information or ask Center staff while you are
on campus for screenings!
In collaboration with the Washington
College of Law's Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law,
the Center
for Global Peace, the Center
for Democracy and Election Management, the Office
of the University Chaplain, and the Media
That Matters Film Festival.
