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Event Archive: 2005
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December 1, 2005 
To Live is Better than to Die
December 1 - World AIDS Day
Wechsler Theatre
American University’s GLBT
and Ally Resource Center
and the Center for Social Media present the award-
winning film that alarmed the Chinese government
and shocked the world, revealing the plight of China’s rural
poor afflicted with AIDS because of government
blood donor policies.
More about the film>>
November
18 - Untold Stories Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices
in Fair Use launch Go>>
Virginia
Film Festival Panel and Screening: “Fair Use and
Free Speech”
CSM screening October 28, and panel October 29
Go
to the Virginia Film Festival site>>
October 20, 2005
Paul Fusco
Lecture & Presentation, 10:00 am Wechsler Theater, Mary Graydon
Center
Paul Fusco was born in Leominster, Massachusetts.
He became interested in photography around 1945 and pursued it as
a serious hobby, eventually gained some awareness and experience
as a photographer in the United States Army Signal Corps in Korea
in 1951-53. After the war he studied photojournalism at Ohio University
and received his B.F.A. in 1957. He moved to New York and started
his career as a staff photographer with LOOK Magazine. Learn
More>>
 6th
Annual Human Rights Film Series
Screenings held on Wednesdays, room 603
Washington College of Law and Thursdays, Mary Graydon Center, Wechsler
Theatre
Go to the site>>
October 5 & 6 – 6pm
State of Fear by Paco de Onís, Pam Yates and Peter
Kinoy
Meet the Filmmakers at this local premiere!
October 6 - 2 pm
“Fear, Truth, and the Documentary,” a presentation
by Peter Kinoy and Paco de Onís, visiting filmmakers in
the room 100 in the Broadcast
Center
October 19 & 20 –
6pm
Videoletters by Katarina Rejger and Eric van den Broek
October 26 & 27 –
6pm
Sometimes in April, by Raoul Peck
November 2 & 3 - 6pm
WITNESS’s Human Rights in Burma collection
November 3 - Attend the launch of WITNESS’s video handbook, and meet
Sam Gregory from WITNESS!
Visiting
Filmmakers
Presentation by Paco de Onís and
Peter Kinoy: Fear, Truth, and the Documentary
October 6 2pm, TV Studio located in the Broadcast Center. campus
map>>
Go to the Visiting Filmmaker page>>
Panel
discussion
“Copyright, the Constitution, and the Crisis in Historical
Documentary Film”
September 23, National Archives, 7 pm in the McGowan
Theater
The panel will be on the endangered right of "fair
use" and its critical importance in preserving the constitutionality
of copyright law. The discussion will focus on copyright clearance
issues in the production of historical documentary films for the
burgeoning multichannel TV market and in the distribution of older
work such as Eyes on the Prize. Center director Pat
Aufderheide moderates; speakers include Professor Peter
Jaszi, filmmakers Grace
Guggenheim, Rena
Kosersky and John
Sorensen; and Kathleen Franz, History Department, AU. Email
the National Archives
for a reservation.
Visiting Filmmaker
Jos de Putter: The Damned and the Sacred
Wechsler Theatre
Screening and Talk.
Go to the Visiting Filmmaker page>>
Just Don't Sing Happy Birthday!
Center hosts panel at SILVERDOCS Conference International Documentary Conference in Silver Spring, MD from June
15-17
During Silverdocs AFI/Discovery Channel Film Festival, the Center
is hosting a morning-long workshop at the conference on June 16:
JUST DON'T SING "HAPPY BIRTHDAY"!: THE CREATIVE PRICE
OF COPYRIGHT CLEARANCEFOR DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKERS. At the panel launching
the workshop, filmmaker Jeffrey Tuchman of Documania Films and Vanessa
Arteaga of the theatrical distribution company Wellspring will join
Pat Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi in highlighting the issues. In the
workshop, filmmakers will work with lawyers and other experts in
rights clearance, to find out how fair use can function better for
them and their audiences.
The festival ran from June 14-19, 2005.
April 10, 2005
The World Is Watching and
The World Stopped Watching
Co-sponsored by the Center as part of the School
of Communication Reel Journalism Festival, which runs April
8-10.
The World Is Watching (1987,
58 min.)
Who decides what's news? How do they decide?
How much of what we see and read is fact Fiction? And what of
the men and women in the field; are foreign correspondents allowed
to tell all that they see, or are they just employees, mouth-pieces
fro an invisible editorial line? This thought-provoking documentary
by filmmaker Peter Raymont examines these issues by focusing on
several journalist working in Nicaragua during the negotiations
surrounding the Arias Peace Plan in November 1987. Features AU
SOC's Artist in Residence Bill Gentile, formerly of Newsweek.
More
on the film>>
 The
World Stopped Watching (2003, 58 min.)
Shot in Nicaragua in late 2002 and early 2003,
The World Stopped Watching is a sequel to the award winning
documentary film The World Is Watching - a cinema verité
examination of foreign news coverage of a climactic moment in
the US-financed Contra war against Nicaragua’s revolutionary
government. Both Raymont and Gentile will lead discussion
following the screening. More
on the film>>
 March
30, 2005
Filmmaker Tia Lessin:
Making Controversial Documentaries
Clip Screening & Discussion,
5:30 PM, Wechsler Theater
Two-time Emmy award nominated filmmaker Tia Lessin shows clips
from her films Behind the Labels: Garment Workers on US Saipan
about sweatshop labor that appeared in theaters and on Oxygen
network. Lessin has also worked with Michael Moore as line producer
for Bowling for Columbine and associate producer for
Fahrenheit 9/11. More>>
March 10-20, 2005
The Center is proud to partner once again
with the DC
Environmental Film Festival. The Center will present three
feature films and several shorts that explore man's relationship
to the environment. For the third year, Jasmina Bojic will present
selections from the United
Nations Association Film Festival.
Check out the full EFF program
and archives>>
 February
2, 2005
Eli Reed
In Honor of Black History Month
Lecture & Presentation, 5:30 p.m. Wechsler Theater, Mary Graydon
Center
Beginning his career in 1970, Reed has become one of the best
known of the Magnum Photographers. From his work on films like
8 Mile and Poetic Justice to his critically
acclaimed study Black in America, Reed has worked on
a wide variety of subjects and territories. More
on Reed>>
February 7, 2005
Make Your Documentary Matter:
Outreach and Impact Strategies That Work
The first of an annual workshop series - want to find out how to use outreach to make
your doc effective—or even how to make outreach part of
your funding strategy? The Center is offering a workshop designed
to help producers with strategic design for their docs. Learn
in this one-day workshop from some of the most respected professionals
in outreach and community engagement, and find out how their strategies
helped great documentaries get made, and make a difference in
the world. Find out more>>
 January
19, 2005
Children Will Listen (2004, 60 min.)
Screening at 6:30 p.m. in Wechsler Theater,
Mary Graydon Center
In Honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Award-winning film director Charlene
Gilbert captured the heart-touching story of what happened
when kids from Washington, D.C.’s public schools star in
a Kennedy Center production of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine
musical Into the Woods, Jr. Not only do the kids stage
the play, but the experience changes the kids. The film celebrates
the role of the arts in learning and building confidence and creativity-and
implicitly asks why we need to depend on occasional charity to
offer arts to the kids who need it most. Talk with director
Charlene Gilbert after the screening!
 Preceded
by The Children of Birmingham (2004, 6 min.)
A short animation that describes the powerful role young people
had in changing the laws of segregation in Birmingham, Alabama.
Winner of the See Change Make Change Award of the 4th
Annual Media That Matters Film Festival.
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