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Event Archive: 2002
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Oct. 16-Nov. 20
Human Rights Film Series
The Power of the Picture: Why and How Films Work for Human Rights
The festival featured films from around the world, including Afghanistan,
Haiti, and Chile, on subjects ranging from the economic rights to
transition and accountability to the proper treatment of a war criminal.
A panel discussion, called "Video and Human Rights: Four Success
Stories," 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. For more information,
click here.
Nov.14
Special event: Magnum Photographer Bruce Davidson
Bruce Davidson spoke about his Civil Rights photographs
just rereleased in a book titled "Time of Change: Civil Rights
Photographs, 1961-1965." More>>
Oct.
9-14
Women Make Movies Turns 30
The 30th anniversary of the pioneering feminist film distributor
Women Make Movies was celebrated with a film series and a panel
discussion on women. For more information, click here.
Sept. 13
Labor Filmmakers’ Roundtable: Making Movies
About Real Life
The dramas of the workplace and working people
are connecting in new ways with audiences and filmmakers are searching
out the best stories. This roundtable included some of the best
national and international filmmakers whose works explore the lives
and stories of working people. For more information, click here.
Sept. 11
Independent Views of September 11
A showcase of creative and provocative independent
short works, in video and streamed media, extending and challenging
what we saw on mainstream TV. For more information, click here.
June
19
Power of Media as a Social Tool
To celebrate the power of media used for social action, the Center
hosted a public reception and screening of socially-engaged documentary,
streamed media and web projects in American University's School
of Communication's Wechsler Theater. Featured films, videos and
interactive web projects ranged from the human rights media project
WITNESS.org to Juan Carlos Zaldivar's personal essay on Cuban-American
identity. Presentations also accented the international, grassroots
news TV of oneworld.net and public TV's documentary showcase P.O.V.
For more information, click here.
April 19
Filmmakers Forum on Satyajit Ray
Suranjan Ganguly, who has written a definitive
biography of Satyajit Ray, engaged in a lively discussion with Smithsonian
curator Manjula Kumar. They discussed changing critical perception
of his work, Ray’s impact on cinema in India and internationally,
and new insights into the great artist’s work. Ray, who died
in 1992, was the towering figure of Indian cinema and produced classics
starting with his famous Apu trilogy, which was launched with "Pather
Panchali" (1955), and continued with many films including "Charulata"
(1964), "The Chess Players" (1977), and "The Home
and the World" (1984).
March 19-23
Powerful Social Action Films and Strategies
Social issue films designed to make a difference
were spotlighted for this event, which consisted of screenings,
filmmaker workshops, and a panel discussion on using media as a
social action tool. "We wanted to bring the experience of the
filmmakers themselves to audiences that care," Center Director
Pat Aufderheide said. "It was a chance to make vital connections."
For more information, click here.
Feb. 16
Real Screen Roundtable
This roundtable was for area filmmakers who make
social issue media and to discuss trends in the factual programming
marketplace. The event followed on the heels of the annual RealScreen
Summit, held Feb. 13-15 in Washington, D.C. The convention gathers
makers of factual programming from around the world.
Feb. 7
“Trembling before G-d”
Filmmaker Sandi DuBowski discussed his wildly
successful film, “Trembling before G-d,” which showed
at Visions Theater Jan. 25-Feb. 14. The film, which reveals the
plight of gays and lesbian Orthodox Jews within that religious community,
has been the core of a nationwide human rights organizing campaign.
It has been shown at the Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International
Film Festival, where it won the best documentary award. During his
discussion, DuBowski touched on a wide range of topics, including
gender issues, Jewish concerns, and filmmaking strategies. He explained
that his film was reaching audiences within Hassidic communities
and within Jewish Orthodox synagogues. Steven Spielberg's Righteous
Persons Foundation, he said, was behind a campaign to bring TVs
into Hassidic homes to show the film.
Listeners questioned him about the tactics of dialog with the Orthodox
as contrasted with, for instance, the confrontational tactics of
ACT UP, and about the long range impact of the film's emotional
appeal.
DuBowski, a Harvard graduate and a Ford and Rockefeller grantee
in the arts, is a seasoned veteran of media politics. At Planned
Parenthood Federation of America, he conducted strategic analysis
and made videos of the Christian right wing. His videos were screened
for former Attorney General Janet Reno and top federal law enforcement
officals; excerpted on CBS News; reported on by The New York Times,
Newsweek, USA Today, and The Nation; and are being used by the Northwest
Coalition Against Malicious Harassment to train human rights activists.
This event was co-sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender
and Ally Resource Center and the American University Hillel.
Sundance hosts
open house for the Center
This year's Sundance
Film Festival honored the newly formed Center for Social Media
with an open house at its House of Docs. For more information, click
here.
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