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Human Rights Watch Film Series 2002
Inside an Afghan
war hospital, and on the streets of Gaza. Face to face with the
human cost of globalization in Haiti, with the survivors of Chilean
torture, and with the reality of hate crimes in the U.S. This year's
Human Rights Watch Film Series goes behind the headlines, to lived
experience and gripping stories. Discussions after the films connect
viewers to issues and actions for human rights.
The third Human Rights Film Series at American University was held
October 16- November 20, cosponsored by the Center, Kay Spiritual
Life Center, and Washington College of Law Center for Human Rights
and Humanitarian Law.
A panel discussion, "Video and Human Rights: Four Success Stories",
took place October 21, at the Wechsler Theater, and was followed
by a reception. It featured Nan Aron, President of Alliance for
Justice; Sam Gregory, Program Coordinator, WITNESS; Andrea Holley,
Manager, Outreach and Public Education, Human Rights Watch; and
Elisa Munoz, Executive Director, Crimes of War Project.
Each showed examples of video work that has
supported human rights efforts. Center for Social Media director
Pat Aufderheide moderated.
Special event
Magnum Photographer Bruce Davidson spoke
about his Civil Rights photographs just rereleased in a book titled
Time of Change: Civil Rights Photographs, 1961-1965.
Wechsler Theatre.
Films
Afghanistan Year 1380
Life inside a Kabul hospital in the months
after 9/11; U.S. bombing, internecine strife, women's roles, and
treatment of Taliban prisoners of war are some of the urgent problems
that are revealed in the emergency room. Directors Alberto Vendemmiati
and Fabrizio Lazzaretti.
Speaker: Hassina Sherjan, Executive Director of Afghanistan Libre.
Afghanistan resources
The Pinochet Case
Famed Chilean director Patricio Guzmán
tracks down Pinochet, and chronicles the groundbreaking trial that
put him under house arrest, with the help of survivors of Chilean
torture.
Speaker: Peter Kornbluh, Senior Analyst, National Security Archive.
Interview with Patrico Guzman
Profit and Nothing But!
Renowned Haitian director Raoul Peck
(Lumumba) probes the excoriating cost of globalized capital on the
culture and economy of his homeland, "a country that doesn't
exist, where intellectual discussion has become a luxury."
Speaker: Hyppolite Pierre, Director, Political Affairs and Founder
of the Institute for Research in the Sciences of Politics.
Haters*
and Of Rights and Wrongs: The Threat
to America's Freedoms
Two films on the erosion of civil rights
for people of color, and especially Muslims in the U.S. since 9/11.
Haters, by Tania Cuevas-Martinez and Lubna Khalid, is a
project of DVRepublic, "a liberated zone in cyberspace."
Of Rights and Wrongs is a project of the Alliance for Justice,
to promote involvement by lawyers on civil rights issues.
Speaker: Lisa Simms, Manager of First Monday Program, Alliance for
Justice.
Gaza Strip and
Human Weapon*
Two films on the cost of Middle East
strife to civilians. James Longley in Gaza Strip followed
daily life in Gaza during the first four months of 2001. In Human
Weapon (an addition to the HRW series), Ilan Ziv tracks the
history of suicide bombing, as a new force in warfare, across decades
and continents.
Middle East resources
Additional descriptions available at the Human Rights Watch website.
* not part of HRW series
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