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Human Rights Watch Traveling Film Festival To Come To Trinity |
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August 14, 2002 Trinity University will be the site of the Human Rights Watch Traveling Film Festival to be held in September in San Antonio. Based in New York, the Human Rights Film Festival is the world’s leading showcase for dramatic, documentary, and animated films that feature human rights themes. Each year highlights from the festival are presented in a traveling film festival. Three films from this year’s festival will be shown at Trinity. All films are free and open to the public. The first film, War Photographer, will be shown on Tuesday, Sept. 3. It will be followed by the showing of Gaza Strip, on Wednesday, Sept. 4, and The Trials of Henry Kissinger on Thursday, Sept. 5. All films will begin at 7:30 p.m. War Photographer and Gaza Strip will be shown in room 336 of Cowles Life Science Center. The Trials of Henry Kissinger will be presented in Trinity’s Stieren Theater.
A panel discussion will follow each movie. The film festival’s stop at Trinity is sponsored by the Coalition for Peace and Justice, the Student Film Society, Amnesty International at Trinity, and the department of communication. For more information, contact Robert Huesca, associate professor of communication, at (210) 999-8113. |
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War
Photographer The subject of the documentary, directed by
Christian Frei, is American photojournalist James Nachtwey. A shy
and unassuming man, Mr. Nachtwey has spent the last 20 years covering
wars and his assignments have taken him to Palestine, Indonesia, and
the Balkans. The film gives an inside look at the horror faced by
Mr. Nachtwey as he documents the devastation of war. The Swiss film
was nominated for a Best Documentary Oscar at the Academy Awards earlier
this year. 
Gaza
Strip Produced and directed by James Longley, the documentary
was filmed during the first four months of 2001, a period that included
the election of Ariel Sharon as prime minister of Israel and the first
major Israeli military incursion into the Gaza Strip. The film sees
most of the events through the eyes of a 13-year-old Palestinian paperboy.
The
Trials of Henry Kissinger Directed by Alex Gribney and
Eugene Jarcki, this film is part contemporary investigation and part
historical inquiry. It focuses on journalist Christopher Hitchens’
charges against former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger as a war
criminal. The charges were the subject of a book by the same name
authored by Mr. Hitchens. Using extensive interviews and archival
footage, the film raises questions concerning Mr. Kissinger’s role
in countries such as Cambodia, Chile, and Indonesia as well as questions
on America’s foreign policy.