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Event Archive: 2004
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December 1
AIDS in Focus: Telling the Stories Behind the
Headlines
Panel Discussion, 5:30 p.m., Wechsler Theater,
Mary Graydon Center
 How
do you tell the stories of AIDS? How do you cut through “compassion
fatigue”? Whose stories “count” in media, and
why? In recognition of World AIDS Day, the Center for Social Media
has organized a panel discussion, with screening of short clips
from films, on how AIDS is dealt with in the media. Panelists include
Christof Putzel, filmmaker of Left
Behind, a film about AIDS orphans in Kenya; Bob
Meyers President of the National
Press Foundation, who conducts workshops for journalists on
covering AIDS; and Christina Arnold, founder and
director of Project
Hope International and AU's distinguished Scholar in Residence.
Arnold will show selected clips of films Project Hope has used to
raise awareness. Center director Pat Aufderheide
moderates.
Looking for more information? Go to the
UNAIDS
Global Media Initiative, scroll to the bottom for the "What
Media Can Do" brochure, the result of a January 2004
roundtable discussion convened by Kofi Annan to address the role
of media in AIDS education.
 November
11
Checkpoint & Best of INPUT 2004
Screening, 6:30 pm, Wechsler Theater,
Mary Graydon Center
Over three million
Palestinians live under Israeli occupation. When traveling from
one village or city to another to go to work, to visit relatives,
or to get medical treatment, they must pass through Israeli checkpoints.
These checkpoints, essentially the first points of contact between
the two peoples, have an enormous significance in the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict. Shamir films interactions at these checkpoints for a revealing
look at the everyday reality of the soldiers who man the stations
and the people who must pass through them.
Entire Best of
INPUT 2004 program>>
November 8
Untold Stories: Creative Consequences of the
Rights Clearance Culture
Washington College of Law, Room 603
(note change), 4-6:00 p.m. Reception
to follow discussion.
Join the Center and panelists Jim
Gilliam of Robert Greenwald Productions, Grace
Guggenheim of Guggenheim Productions, Mike Madison
of University of Pittsburgh Law School, Joseph Turow,
University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School, Jeffrey Tuchman
of Documania Films, and Peter Jaszi of the Washington
College of Law as they discuss the impact of the copyright "clearance
culture" in documentary filmmaking.
Find out more>>
October 5-27
5th Annual Human Rights Film Series
Free screenings
and discussion
5 :30 p.m. each Wednesday, Wechsler Theater, Mary Graydon Center
and on the Monday before at the Washington College of Law
A series of films that show how film and video
can make a difference for human rights. Discussions with expert
speakers follows all screenings. See
the entire program>>
 October
14
With God On Our Side: George Bush and the Religious
Right
Wechsler Theater, 8:00 p.m.
Lumiere Productions will hold an advanced screening of this new
film, with Q & A.
Much of the world is confounded by his
righteous rhetoric and boundless certainty. But George W. Bush's
story makes perfect sense to one group:
America's conservative evangelicals, a/k/a the Religious Right.
He's the man they've been waiting for ....
An update of Lumiere Productions' 1996 Religious Right
history ("a landmark" ‹Houston Chronicle), WITH
GOD ON OUR SIDE explores the life and career of George W. Bush
from a crucial but little-understood perspective. The film first
places Bush in the context of born-again Christians' five-decade
political education. It then offers a unique account of Bush's own
journey from prodigal son to President, featuring previously-unheard
eyewitness accounts of his midlife crisis in Midland.
Gandhi once wrote, "He who says religion and
politics don't mix, understands neither one." George Bush understands.
--Bush confidante Doug Wead
 October
7
Photographer Chien-Chi Chang
Presentation by Magnum Photographer, 10 am,
Wechsler Theater, Mary Graydon Center
Chang presents his haunting photographs of a mental asylum in Taiwan
and discusses using photography for social change. More>>
 September
23
In the Light of Reverence
Screening and panel discussion, 2-5:00 p.m.
in the tent stage of Spirit:The Seventh Fire, on the Mall
in the 14th Street Center Panel near the Washington Monument. FREE!
Christopher (Toby) McLeod will present his award-winning
documentary, followed by a panel discussion with Native American
leaders. The event is being held during the week of the opening
of the new Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, in
association with Spirit:The Seventh Fire, a theatrical
celebration of American Indian history and identity.
For further information about In the Light of
Reverence and the Sacred Land Film Project, please visit http://www.sacredland.org
April 14
Visiting Filmmakers: Patrice O'Neill and Pamela
Calvert
Screening and discussion at 5:30 p.m. Wechsler
Theater
O'Neill and Calvert present Not
in Our Town, I, II and III. The creators of one of the
most innovative social action television programs ever shows how
the astonishingly effective series came to be. Not in Our
Town, originally a stand-alone production, showcased creative
ways that communities resisted intimidation and fear from the hate
crimes of a few. The program inspired similar, positive responses
in communities across the U.S., some of whose stories were told
in Not in Our Town II. Now comes Not in
Our Town III, a look into the troubled American heartland,
where members of a small Montana town confront an angry, isolationist
militia.
Director Patrice O'Neill and community engagement
expert Pamela Calvert explain how they married filmmaking and community
activism, with key segments from all three films. Scenes from Not
in Our Town III are unique peeks into a work that has not
yet been released! More>>
 April
8, 2004
Valentina's Nightmare and Rwanda: The Weapon
Screening and discussion, 5:30 p.m. Wechsler
Theater
Presented as part of the campus-wide Rwanda
Commemoration Project
This program looked back at the origins and the
horrors of the 1994 massacre of 800,000 Tutsis by the Hutu majority
in Rwanda and examines the country's struggle for justice and reconciliation
in the aftermath of the bloody genocide. Also, AU's Visiting Artist
Bill Gentile and co-producer Joanne Levine of Nightline, presented
Rwanda: The Weapon with discussion on the use of rape as a
weapon of war. More>>
 March
31
Visiting Filmmaker: Ronit Avni
Screening and discussion at 5:30 p.m. Wechsler
Theater
Co-sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program
Avni presented her Just Vision
project, an initiative that brings the stories
of courageous Israeli and Palestinian grassroots efforts for peace
to American audiences through video, educational curricula and the
Internet. More>>
March 24-27
Social Action Media Showcase
The Center presented four feature films and several shorts that
explore man's relationship to the environment. For the second year,
Jasmina Bojic presented selections from the United Nations Association
Film Festival. On Saturday March 27, Center co-director Pat Aufderheide
moderated a panel of filmmakers and experts on how to use film effectively
in environmental action. Click here
for more information on events and resources.
February 4
Camera as Catalyst: Leonard
Freed
 Presentation
and discussion, 5:30 p.m. Wechsler Theater
Now a Magnum photographer, Freed became famous first for his involvement
with the American civil rights movement, then with the 1980 publication
of his book Police Work. Photography became his way of
exploring complex issues such as societal violence and racial discrimination
(including a study of the Ku Klux Klan), German society and his
own Jewish roots in numerous books and films. More>>
January 21
 Citizen
King
Presented by filmmaker Orlando Bagwell
5:30 p.m. Ward Circle Building, Room 1
Citizen King explores the last five
years in King's life by drawing on the personal recollections and
eyewitness accounts of friends, movement associates, journalists,
law enforcement officers, and historians, to illuminate this little-known
chapter in the story of America's most important and influential
moral leader.
Screening and Q&A with filmmaker
Orlando Bagwell More>>
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