We hope you are having a productive fall. We’d like to let you know about a number of events we have planned, and introduce you to four new staff members.

We are also pleased to announce Magnum Photographer, Paul Fusco, will be visiting the American University Campus to give a public presentation on October 20th.

Don’t forget to mark your calendars for two exciting Center events this month. We will be presenting a screening and talk by visiting Dutch human rights filmmaker, Jos de Putter, and we will be co-hosting a panel discussion at the National Archives on documentary film and copyright issues. Hope to see you there!

September 16 2 pm, Wechsler Theatre Screening and Talk: Visiting Dutch Filmmaker Jos de Putter: The Damned and the Sacred

September 23 7 pm, National Archives in the McGowan Theater Panel discussion: “Copyright, the Constitution, and the Crisis in Historical Documentary Film”

On September 23, at the National Archives, 700 Constitution Ave, NW in the McGowan Theater, the Center is co-hosting a panel discussion with the Charles Guggenheim Center for the Documentary Film and the National Archives. The panel will be on the endangered right of "fair use" and its critical importance in preserving the constitutionality of copyright law. The discussion will focus on copyright clearance issues in the production of historical documentary films for the burgeoning multichannel TV market and in the distribution of older work such as Eyes on the Prize. Center director Pat Aufderheide moderates; speakers include Professor Peter Jaszi, filmmakers Grace Guggenheim, Rena Kosersky and John Sorensen; and Kathleen Franz, History Department, American University. Reservations are required!

The Center will be hosting a presentation and talk by photographer Paul Fusco, a member of the renowned photographer collective, Magnum. The event will be located in the Wechsler Theatre, Mary Graydon Center at American University on October 20 at 10 am. Fusco will be the fifth in a series of Magnum photographers the Center has hosted over the last two years as part of the Camera as Catalyst Visiting Photographers series. The series is coordinated by SOC faculty member Leena Jayaswal.

Paul Fusco worked as a staff photographer for Look until 1971. During that period he produced significant works on destitute miners in Kentucky, Hispanic ghetto life in NY, runaway youths trying to survive in NYC, cultural changes and experimentation and clashes in California, everyday life across the U.S.: farming, Indian reservations, small towns, migrant labor, Black life in the Mississippi delta, religious proselitizing in the south and many other topics.

He also looked at life and social issues in other countries: Russia, England, Israel, Egypt, Japan, Southeast Asia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and an extended study of the "Iron Curtain" stretching from Northern Finland to Iran.

After Look folded Fusco approached Magnum Photos and in 1973, became an associate and then a member in 1974. His photography has been published widely in many major U.S. magazines: Time, Life, Newsweek, NY Times Magazine, Mother Jones, Psychology Today and others. Paul's work has also been widely published in magazines throughout the world through Magnum Photos.

Mr. Fusco has spent most of his career trying to understand what life is like and means to the people he works with and to try to make the reality of those lives emotionally and intellectually understandable to others from his photographs.

(Fusco’s biography is taken from http://www. magnumphotos.com/)

October 6 2-4pm, Room 100 of the Media Production Center, also known as the Broadcast Center. Presentation: Visiting Filmmakers Paco de Onís and Peter Kinoy "Fear, Truth, and the Documentary"

October 7 2-3:30 pm, Wechsler Theatre, located on the third floor of the Mary Graydon Center Visiting Filmmakers Paco de Onís and Peter Kinoy speak about the history of activist filmmaking

6th Annual Human Rights Film Series Screenings held on Wednesdays, room 603 Washington College of Law and Thursdays, Mary Graydon Center, Wechsler Theatre

10/5-6 – 6pm State of Fear by Paco de Onís, Pam Yates and Peter Kinoy. Meet the Filmmakers at this local premiere!

10/6 - 2pm “Fear, Truth, and the Documentary,” a presentation by Peter Kinoy and Paco de Onís, visiting filmmakers in the TV Studio in the Broadcast Center

10/19-20 – 6pm Videoletters by Katarina Rejger and Eric van den Broek

10/26-27 – 6pm Sometimes in April, by Raoul Peck

11/2-3 - 6pm WITNESS’s Human Rights in Burma collection
November 3 - Attend the launch of WITNESS’s video handbook, and meet Sam Gregory from WITNESS!

DC Labor FilmFest 2005
September 15-18

The fifth annual DC Labor Film Fest will take place September 15-18, 2005 at the American Film Institute's Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Visit the festival’s website at www.djdinsti tute.org/film/

Or, for more information on DC Labor FilmFest 2005, please contact: Katherine Isaac at the Debs-Jones-Douglass Institute or Chris Garlock at Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO