Please let me know if any of you are interested in going to The Human Rights Film Festival events in the forwarded message below.
If 15 or more of us go to the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, we will receive discount tickets. I will be posting each of the film sessions on the Meetup site.
We have TV Production this week, which conflicts with this festival. Our productions are Thursday (Living Tools with George Zeigler) and Friday (Progress in San Diego) 6PM to 10PM and Saturday (Consider the Possibilities with Coach Marilyn) 9AM to 1PM at COX Communications.
We always need a hand.
I plan to go to the Human Rights Festival Saturday afternoon, after the production of Consider the Possibilities with Coach Marilyn.
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Subject: Jennifer Nedbalsky sent you a message: San Diego County Community Coalition Group and the 2012 Human Rights Watch Film Festival
To: wdavis@walterdavisenterprises.com
Date: Saturday, January 14, 2012, 2:00 PM
Meetup |  | | Dear San Diego County Community Coalition,
I hope this finds you well. I'm one of the organizers of the San Diego Human Rights Watch Film Festival. We're thrilled that we'll be hosting our 2nd film festival from Friday, Jan. 20–Monday, Jan. 23rd, 2012 at the Museum of Photographic Arts.
Given the interests of your group, I wanted to suggest a meet up for you. We're screening six films that might be of interest:
Fri., Jan. 20, 7:00 pm
Love Crimes of Kabul
Jailed for running away from home to escape abuse, for allegations of adultery, and other "moral crimes," the women of Afghanistan's Badum Bagh prison band together to fight for their freedom. The film follows three young prisoners as they go to trial, revealing the pressures and paradoxes that women in Afghanistan face today, and the dangerous consequences of refusing to fit into society's norms.
*Followed by Q&A with Huma Ahmed-Ghosh, chair of Women Studies at SDSU and moderated by Jenni Prisk, founder of Voices of Women
Sat., Jan. 21, 1:00 pm
Granito: How to Nail a Dictator
Part political thriller, part memoir, Granito takes us through a haunting tale of genocide and justice that spans four decades, two films, and filmmaker Pamela Yates's own career. Granito is a story of destinies joined together by Guatemala's past and of how a documentary film from 1982, When the Mountains Tremble, emerges as an active player in the present by becoming forensic evidence in a genocide case against a military dictator.
*Followed by a Q&A session with the filmmakers.
Special Offer: Buy a ticket to GRANITO, and see WHEN THE MOUNTAINS TREMBLE for half price.
Sat., Jan. 21, 3:00 pm
When the Mountains Tremble
In the early 1980s, death squads roamed the Guatemalan countryside in a war against the unarmed indigenous population that went largely unreported in the international media. Filmmakers Pamela Yates and Newton Thomas Sigel, threw themselves into the task of bringing the crisis to the world's attention by making a documentary that took them into remote areas of the country where massacres of civilians were taking place.
*Followed by a Q&A session with Granito filmmakers.
Sat., Jan. 21, 7:00 pm
The Price of Sex
Intimate and revealing, The Price of Sex is a feature-length documentary about young Eastern European women who have been drawn into a world of sex trafficking and abuse. Filming undercover and gaining extraordinary access, Chakarova illuminates how even though some women escape to tell their stories, sex trafficking thrives..
*Followed by a Q&A session with the filmmaker Mimi Chakarova.
Sun., Jan. 22, 3:00 pm
If a Tree Falls
How far would you go to create change?In December 2005 Daniel McGowan, a prominent New York City social justice organizer, was arrested by federal agents in a nationwide sweep of activists linked to crimes by the Earth Liberation Front (ELF)—a group the FBI has called America's "number one domestic terrorism threat." By providing a closer look at the group's disillusionment with the strategies of non-violent protest – in which they suffer police abuse and public indifference – the film poses difficult questions about the possibility of effecting change from within the system and examines the raised stakes post 9/11 where the "terrorist" tag is broadly applied.
*Followed by a Q&A session with Andrea Prasow, senior counsel, Human Rights Watch.
Sun., Jan. 22, 7:00 pm
You Don't Like the Truth – 4 Days inside Guantanamo
You Don't Like the Truth is a shocking documentary based on security camera footage from an encounter in Guantanamo Bay between a team of Canadian intelligence agents and Canadian citizen Omar Khadr, then a 16-year-old detainee. Based on seven hours of video footage recently declassified by the Canadian courts, this documentary delves into the unfolding high-stakes game of cat and mouse between captor and captive over a four-day period.
This could be a great event for your meet up group members to attend, given your interests.
The regular price for tickets is $8 each. If you're interested in making this a meet-up event for your group we can offer a discount on tickets for 15+ participants at $5 each. Let me know and I'll put you in touch with the museum.
We're also hoping you might be able to help us share information about the films with your members by sending out an email announcing the screenings.
We're hoping to have a strong audience for this special event and hope to see you there. Please let me know if you need any further information on the film or have any questions, you can reach me by email at iff_in1@hrw.org
Kind regards,
Amy Rooha Gibbs
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
+1-212-216-1264
www.hrw.org/en/iff
MOPA is honored to host the second year of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in San Diego, a powerful film event that the New York Times called the "cinematic conscience of the world.
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