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2004 Series
October
4-October 27
Human Rights Film Series
Free screenings and discussion
5 :30 p.m. each Wednesday, Wechsler Theater, Mary Graydon Center
and on the Monday before at the Washington College of Law
A series of films that show how film and video
can make a difference for human rights. Discussions with expert
speakers follows all screenings.
 October
6
Discovering Dominga
By Patricia Flynn with Mary Jo McConahay
Co-sponsored by the Latino and American Student Organization in
honor of Hispanic Heritage Month
When 29-year-old Iowa housewife Denese Becker decides to
return to the Guatemalan village where she was born, she begins
a journey towards finding her roots, but one filled with harrowing
revelations. Denese, born Dominga, was nine when she became her
family's sole survivor of a massacre of Mayan peasants. Two years
later, she was adopted by an American family. Denese's journey home
is both a voyage of self-discovery that permanently alters her relationship
to her American family and a political awakening that sheds light
on an act of genocide against this hemisphere’s largest Indian
majority. More>>
Filmmaker Patricia Flynn will lead discussion following
the screening!
Find
out about organizations doing more with this resource fact sheet
for Discovering Dominga>>
October 13
 Afghanistan
Unveiled
By Brigitte Brault & Aina Women
Filming Group
Afghanistan Unveiled was created
as the culmination of a unique program: 14 young women, several
still in their teens, were trained as camera operators and video
journalists—the first team of women video journalists ever
to be trained in the country. As much an emotional as a geographic
journey, the film reveals the effects of the Taliban’s repressive
rule and the United States-sponsored bombing campaign on Afghan
women. From Jalalabad to Badakshan, this poetic journey of self-discovery
is a profound reminder of independent media's power to bear witness.
More>>
October 20
Control Room
By Jehane Noujaim
A chronicle which provides a rare window into the newsroom
of Al Jazeera, the Arab world's most popular news outlet. Roundly
criticized by Cabinet members and Pentagon officials for reporting
with a pro-Iraqi bias, and strongly condemned for frequently airing
civilian causalities as well as footage of American POWs, the station
reveals the Iraq War that the Bush administration did not want the
world to see. More>>
 October
27
Deadline
By Katy Chevigny and Kirsten Johnson
In January 2003, Republican Governor George Ryan granted blanket
clemency to all 167 people on death row in Illinois, commuting their
sentences to life without parole. With astounding access to special
clemency hearings, the death row prisoners, exonerated men and Governor
Ryan himself, Deadline bring us directly into the emotional
and legal storm surrounding Ryan’s extraordinary decision.
Discussion with codirector Katy Chevigny follows screening. More>>
The Human Rights Film Series is organized
in partnership with Washington
College of Law's Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law,
Office of
International Affairs, International
Peace and Conflict Resolution, Center
for Global Peace, Office
of the University Chaplain, and Media
That Matters Film Festival.
Are you interested in holding your own
Human Rights Film Series?
Check out National
Video Resources' Human Rights Video Project>>
Also, Human
Rights Watch Traveling Festival>>
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