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

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.



• October 15, 2009 @ the Wechsler Theater – Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai

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.



• October 22, 2009 @ the Wechsler Theater – New Muslim Cool

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.



• October 29, 2009 @ the Katzen Arts Center – The Reckoning

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