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Human Rights
Watch 2008 International Films Festival - June 12-26-2008
Released by Ms. Rania Faza
The
following links - where you can find films featuring human rights
issues:
http://hrw.org/iff/2008/ny/index.html
There is a Lebanese film among these , Under the bombs....
Special films on the use of the PHOTO in human rights defense is
amongst the following most prominent 3 films:
“The City of Photographers,” by Sebastián Moreno Mardones,
reveals how a group of brave photojournalists in 1980s Chile
encouraged opposition to
Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s regime.
“The Devil Came on Horseback,” by Annie Sundberg and Ricki
Stern, tells the story of Brian Steidle, a former Marine Corps
captain who took more than 1,000 horrific photos of the current
genocide in Darfur, then used them to help raise an outcry.
“Manufactured Landscapes,” by Jennifer Baichwal, comments and
expands on the work of Edward Burtynsky, an art photographer who
visits scenes of vast social and environmental disruption — most
recently in newly industrialized China — and makes large pictures of
them.
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