Our 10th Annual Human Rights Film Series will feature documentaries that address international human rights issues and will bring together audiences and experts to discuss how the viewer can make a difference.
Films will be screened on Thursdays in October from 5:30pm — 8:00pm on the campus of American University. Each screening will feature special guests and will be followed by an in-depth discussion of the film and the issues they approach.
Our films this year include:
- October 8, 2009 @ the Katzen Arts Center – Burma VJ
- October 15, 2009 @ the Wechsler Theater – Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
- October 22, 2009 @ the Wechsler Theater – New Muslim Cool
- October 29, 2009 @ the Katzen Arts Center – The Reckoning
With special guests –Burmese monks
Armed with video-cameras a tenacious band of Burmese reporters face down death to expose the repressive regime controlling their country. Watch the trailer.
With special guest –film editor Mary Lampson
The dramatic story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai whose simple act of planting trees grew into a nationwide movement to safeguard the environment, protect human rights, and defend democracy-a movement for which this charismatic woman became an iconic inspiration. Watch the trailer.
With special guest — filmmaker Jennifer Maytorena Taylor
Take a ride with Puerto Rican American rapper Hamza Perez’s through the streets, projects and jail cells of urban America, following his spiritual journey to some surprising places – where we can all see ourselves reflected in a world that never stops changing. Watch the trailer.
With special guests –Paco De Onis and Pamela Yates
Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo of the International Criminal Court (ICC) issues arrest warrants for the rebel leaders of the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda, puts 4 Congolese warlords on trial in The Hague, charges the President of Sudan with genocide and war crimes in Darfur, challenges the UN Security Council to have him arrested, and shakes up the Colombian criminal justice system. Will this tiny upstart court in The Hague tame the Wild West of international conflict zones and end the culture of impunity? Watch the trailer
