Subj: Re: [jordannola] New Orleans Human Rights Fest - April 12 - 22,
appearance by actor/producer Danny Glover.
Date: 4/2/2007 1:22:12 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: dorindamoreno@comcast.net
To: KatrinaGlobalFriends@yahoogroups.com,
BlackBrownUnityCommunity@yahoogroups.com

jordan flaherty wrote:
> Friends and allies,
>
> Below is information about the New Orleans International Human Rights Film
> Festival.
>
> More than an arts event, this is a festival with a mission: to support
> community and resistance in New Orleans.
>
> The festival presents a combination of urgent local films - including a
> powerful program of pre and post-Katrina films curated by New Orleans filmmaker
> and artist Courtney Egan, Katrina Story by New Orleans Bounce music superstar
> 10th Ward Buckand several films by New Orleans high school students - and
> brilliant and vital films from around the world.
>
> More information is on the festival website - New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival - Home.
> Please spread the word.
>
> ----------------------------------
>
> The Fourth Annual New Orleans International Human Rights Film
> Festival. April 12 – 22, 2007.
>
> Ten Days. Fifty films. Five US premieres. Plus live music, guest
> filmmakers and actors, special guest presenters, workshops, and more.
> The Fourth Annual New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival
> is coming. Venues include Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, Ashe
> Cultural Arts Center, One Eyed Jacks, and Canal Place Cinemas.
>
> Highlights include a benefit concert featuring Righteous Babe Records
> recording artist Toshi Reagon, several evenings of films by New
> Orleans filmmakers, the first fiction film shot in Iraq under US
> occupation, award-winning films from Lebanon, Mali, South Africa,
> Brazil, Mexico, Australia, Cuba and Palestine; plus an appearance by
> actor/producer Danny Glover. See New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival - Home for a
> complete schedule, updates, and more.
>
> For more information, email info@nolahumanrights.org, or call (504)
> 827-5858.
>
> High school and college teachers and professors: talk to us about free or
> discounted admission for your class to select programs. Email
> info@nolahumanrights.org.
>
> SCHEDULE:
>
> Thursday, April 12 - Opening Night
> Canal Place
> 7pm: Back and Forth: A Program of Shorts Curated by Courtney Egan (55 min)
> Locally-produced Short films made before the storm and flooding of
> 2005 will be contrasted with work made since, presenting similar
> subjects seen through different eyes, at different times. Filmmakers
> present
> 9pm: Opening night party - Handsome Willy's
>
> Friday, April 13
> Ashe Cultural Arts Center
> 6pm: Alienated: Undocumented Immigrant Youth (28 min) Gives voice to
> undocumented youth immigrants facing the challenges of life after high
> school with no options for legalized work or college. playing with:
> Legacy Of Torture (28 min) In 1973, thirteen alleged "Black militants"
> were arrested in New Orleans. Some of them were tortured for several
> days by law enforcement authorities.
> Plus panel and guest speakers
> Co-Presented by Critical Resistance New Orleans
>
> Ashe Cultural Arts Center
> 8pm: Benefit concert featuring Toshi Reagon and Asali Devan.Proceeds
> benefit the INCITE/Women's Health and Justice Initiative New Orleans
> Women's Clinic. Tickets: $10
>
> Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center (At Tulane)
> 9pm: An Unreasonable Man (122 min) The life and career of Ralph
> Nader, one of the most unique and controversial political figures of
> the past half century.
>
> Saturday, April 14
> Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center (At Tulane)
> 5pm: ¡Salud! (92 min) The curious case of Cuba, a cash-strapped
> country with one of the world's best health systems.
> Introduced by Actor/Producer Danny Glover
>
> 7pm: Falluja (30) Through compelling and emotional first-hand accounts
> and live-action cinema verite, a ground-level view of the effects of
> the US assault on Falluja.
> Playing with:
> Shorts Program: Palestine Revolution Cinema (80 min) Curated by Emily
> Jacir, a stunning collection of films made by Palestinian revolutionary
> filmmakers in the 60's and early 70s.
>
> 9pm: An Unreasonable Man (122 min) The life and career of Ralph
> Nader, one of the most unique and controversial political figures of
> the past half century.
>
> Sunday, April 15
> Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center (At Tulane)
> 5pm: A Girl Like Me (8 min)- A film about the standards of beauty
> imposed on today's black girls and how this affects their self-image.
> playing with:
> By Invitation Only (57 min) An unprecedented look at the inner
> workings of the insular world of New Orleans' old line Carnival
> society through the lens of one of its own.
> Filmmaker Present
>
> 7pm: Vital Voices (95 min) A selection of urgent
> and beautiful films from around the world. Featuring: The Present,
> Cleveland Street Gap, Canal Nueve, White Feathers, Boom, Jean Paul,
> Hide Your Words, Hazards Of Engagement (see descriptions below). Some
> filmmakers present.
>
> 9pm: Kamp Katrina (73 min) In the days after Katrina, a Bywater
> resident converts her backyard into a tent city where 14 displaced
> people live for 6 months.
> Filmmakers present
>
> Monday, April 16
> Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center (At Tulane)
> 7pm: Road to Guantánamo Part documentary, part drama, this stunning
> and powerful film tells the story of three young British men who were
> captured by the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan in 2001 and detained
> as "enemy combatants" at Guantánamo Bay.
>
> 9pm: Ahlaam (Dreams) (110 min) Beginning in the bombed ruins of a
> psychiatric asylum, a fiction film from post-war Iraq, filmed in the
> days after the US invasion.
>
> Tuesday, April 17
> Ashe Cultural Arts Center
> 6pm: NOLA Students Speak Out! Selections from the Ashe Cultural Arts
> Center youth filmmaking camp, and Students at the Center (40 minutes)
> These moving films by New Orleans high school students cover a range
> of important topics and themes. Filmmakers present.
>
>
> 7pm: Special Program sponsored by New Orleans US Social Forum
> Organizing Committee
> Notes From Porto Alegre (28 min)In January 2005, youth producers
> traveled to Porto Alegre, Brazil to participate in the World Social
> Forum.
> Plus Special guests
> This event is free
>
> 8:30pm: Heartlines: (97 minutes) After serving a jail sentence for
> theft, Mayisa, a young man with a cruel past and an uncertain future,
> is released. A heartwarming film about the road to redemption.
>
> Wednesday, April 18
> Ashe Cultural Arts Center
> 6pm: Free Ya Hood (80 minutes) Highlights New York City activists'
> work organizing against police brutality.
>
> Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center (At Tulane)
> 7pm: Rainbows End (75 min)A multinational journey exploring gay
> rights from the center to the borders of Europe.
>
> 9pm: Just Married (72 min)Following Kifah and Sudah, two newly
> married Palestinian women, Just Married reveals the personal drama
> that emerges from the political crisis.
>
> Thursday, April 19
> Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center (At Tulane)
> 7pm: Occupation 101 (89 min) A comprehensive introduction to the facts
> and hidden truths surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,
> dispelling many of its long-perceived myths and misconceptions.
>
> 9pm: Canal Nueve (7 min) Documenting the popular take-over of a
> corporate radio station in Oaxaca, Mexico. Playing with:
> Crossing Arizona (77 min) Examines the crisis of immigration through
> the eyes of those directly affected by it.
>
> Friday, April 20
> Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center (At Tulane)
> 7pm: The Present (8 min) Living in Sydney, Miyoko's seemingly simple
> existence is complicated by the weakness of her body and the strength
> of her memories. Playing with:
> Color Of Olives (92 min) An elegant and visually breathtaking new film
> about the Palestinian experience. A beautifully affecting reflection
> on the effects of racial segregation, the meaning of borders and the
> absurdity of war.
>
> 9pm: USA vs Al-Arian (99 min)An activist Arab family in Tampa Florida
> is targeted by the US government.
>
> Saturday, April 21
> One Eyed Jacks
> 7pm: Fire The Next Time (15 min) WORLD PREMIERE A powerful new
> documentary of disposession and resistance in New Orleans. Playing
> with
> Katrina Story (35 min) Directed by New Orleans Bounce superstar Tenth
> Ward Buck, Katrina Story tells his first-hand experience of being in
> New Orleans East as Katrina struck, his evacuation to the Houston
> Astrodome. Featuring powerful footage from the storm, performances by
> local hiphop artists, interviews with other New Orleans rappers, and
> more.
> Filmmakers present
>
> Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center (At Tulane)
> 5pm: Ra Choi (2 hrs) The story of four Vietnamese street kids in
> Australia trying to make a life for themselves.
>
> Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center (At Tulane)
> 9pm: Hide Your Words (27 min) A graceful and eloquent documentary
> about the plight of young girls in Iran. Playing with:
> Garlic and Watermelons (56 min) US PREMIERE A compelling and touching
> story of a family and community of Greek Gypsies displaced by official
> racism and hostility.
>
> Sunday, April 22
> Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center (At Tulane)
> Closing Night Program/Earth Day Program
> 5pm: Plagues And Pleasures on the Salton Sea (71 min) The strange
> history and unexpected beauty of the Salton Sea - one of America's
> worst ecological disasters - is revealed. Narrated by John Waters.
> Filmmakers present
>
> 7pm: Bamako (118 minutes) A fiction film from Africa that puts the IMF
> and World Bank on trial. "Needs to be seen, argued over, and seen
> again." – nytimes.
>
> 9pm: Letters from Beirut (20) WORLD PREMIERE Filmed in the days
> following the Israeli bombardment of Lebanon, one Beirut woman's
> personal story of the devastation. Playing with:
> Leila Khaled: Hijacker (58 min) On August 29th, 1969, 24 year old
> Leila Khaled became the first woman ever to hijack an airplane.
>
> 11:00pm: Closing Night Party: Handsome Willy's
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Shorts Descriptions:
>
> Boom (2 min) A short abstract film by New Orleans filmmaker David Sullivan
>
> Canal Nueve (7 min)Documenting the popular take-over of a corporate
> radio station in Oaxaca, Mexico.
>
> Cleveland Street Gap (3 min) Using recovered home movies from her
> flooded house, Cleveland Street Gap contrasts Helen's neighborhood
> before and after the flooding.
>
> Hazards of Engagement (24 min) A New Orleans student in Argentina
> questions international solidarity and responsibility.
>
> Jean Paul (9 min)US PREMIERE A man left to die in remote Cameroon.
>
> The Present (8 min)Living in Sydney, Miyoko's seemingly simple existence
> is complicated by the weakness of her body and the strength of her
> memories.
>
> White Feathers (8 min)A young African woman is initiated into an
> African ceremony with an unacceptable past.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> -------------
> All Programs are $6, unless otherwise noted. Festival Pass is $40.
>
> Please check New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival - Home for full descriptions, program
> updates, expanded listings, and more.
>
> Complimentary refreshments at select events provided by Sip Wine Shop and
> Whole Foods Market.
>
> Venues:
>
> Landmark Canal Place Cinema
> 333 Canal St @ N. Peters
> New Orleans, LA 70130
>
> Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center
> @ Tulane University - Richardson Memorial Bldg.,
> Thomson Hall, Rm. 201 - St. Charles Avenue
> (Note: It is free to park on campus on weekends and nightly after 7:00 p.m)
> (504) 827-5858
>
> Ashe Cultural Arts Center
> 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd
> New Orleans, Louisiana 70113
> (504) 569-9070
>
> One Eyed Jacks
> 615 Toulouse Street
> New Orleans, LA
>
> Handsome Willy's
> 218 S. Robertson
> New Orleans, LA
>
> Festival Staff
> Jordan Flaherty, Rene Broussard, Jerald White, Tory Pegram,
> Jacqueline Soohen, Thomas Bacon, Leonora Tisdale, Corlita Mahr,
> Heather Sinclair, Molly McClure, Carolien Pentinga.
>
> Special Thanks to:
> Ashé Cultural Arts Center
> Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center
> ACLU Foundation of Louisiana
> Charitable Film Network
> Amnesty International, New Orleans
> Renaissance Project New Orleans
> New Orleans Palestine Solidarity
> People's Hurricane Relief Fund
> Common Ground Relief
> LIFT Productions
> Ariel Montage
> Handsome Willy's
> People's Institute For Survival And Beyond
> Iron Rail Bookstore and Infoshop
> Consulat General du France
> Students at the Center
> One Eyed Jacks
> Canal Place Cinema
> Tulane University
> Sip Wine Store
> Whole Foods
>


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