HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL – 2010

[Leila Kaas]

10^th Annual Echo Park Film Center

HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL – 2010

Echo Park Film Center

1200 N. Alvarado St., Los Angeles, CA 90026

213-484-8846 * www.echoparkfilmcenter.org

 

 

The Human Rights Film Festival is an annual presentation of documentary films highlighting national and global social justice themes. Basic human rights, including the right to peacefully assemble, the right to religious freedom, the right of political sovereignty and the right to life and liberty, are often taken for granted in Western industrialized nations.

 

The Human Rights Film Festival began in 2000 as the UNA/UCI Human Rights Film Festival and has since moved to the Echo Park Film Center. This year’s focus is on Latin America. All events are FREE and open to the public.

 

 

 

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19^TH

7:30 – Introduction/Light Reception

8:00 – 10:00 Screening

 

Reminiscences of Days Gone By (36 minutes) – Brazil and Argentina

 

This film starts from a personal history and builds a self-fiction that using an essayist tone promotes a series of connections between Brazil and Argentina, between city and countryside, and between memory and imagination. It is an experiment that provides dilution of the concepts of identity and reality, taking them to the screen.  Directed and Produced by Carolina Berger

 

Human Rights Watch Youth Films (60 minutes) – Latin America

 

A program of short films directed and produced by youth from across the globe. Armed with digital cameras, computers and their own boundless creativity – these young people bravely expose human rights issues faced by themselves and their communities. It’s time that we listen to what they have to say.

 

 

 

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20^TH

SCREENINGS ALL DAY

 

Noon – 1PM:

Coming Home (43 minutes) - USA

 

“It just hurts my heart,” says Sam Jackson, New Orleans public housing resident and organizer, standing before the rubble that bulldozers had made of his family’s home. After Katrina’s destruction, the New Orleans City Council voted to demolish the majority of the city’s public housing and replace it with privately owned developments, displacing thousands of people. Locked out of the City Council meetings where policymakers decided the fate of their community’s main social safety net, residents became activists, communicating their struggle for housing rights to the highest levels of national and international leadership. Coming Home shows the housing crisis in New Orleans, but it speaks to a broader pattern of privatization of those public resources that satisfy human rights for us all.

 

1PM – 3PM

White Clouds, Black Clouds (5 minutes) Italy

 

This short film is a fairytale on the ambiental theme of the incineration and nature’s response. The movie tells this theme by the point of view of a child in his dreams.

 

In the Light of Reverence (73 minutes) - USA

 

Ten years in the making, In the Light of Reverence explores American culture’s relationship to nature in three places considered sacred by native peoples: the Colorado Plateau in the Southwest, Mount Shasta in California, and Devils Tower in Wyoming. Rich in minerals and timber and beloved by recreational users, these “holy lands” exert a spiritual gravity which pulls Native Americans into conflicts with mining companies, New Age practitioners, and rock climbers. Ironically, all sides see themselves as besieged. Their battles tell a new story of culture clashes in an ancient landscape.

 

3PM – 4PM

Exigibilidad de los Derechos de Las Mujeres – Por el derecho a una vida libre de violencias par alas mujeres (43 minutes) - Columbia

 

The title lossly translated into English Enforcing the Rights of Women for the right to a life free of violence is short documentary produced in Medellin, Columbia this film interviews a series of women about their struggles and concerns. Please note this film is in Spanish without subtitles.

 

 

ALL SCREENINGS WILL BE HELD AT:

ECHO PARK FILM CENTER

1200 N. ALVARADO ST. (at SUNSET BLVD.)

LOS ANGELES, CA  90026

 

MORE INFO: 213-484-8846 * www.echoparkfilmcenter.org

"Valeu a pena? Tudo vale a pena, se a alma não é pequena."

"Was it worth it? Everything is worth it if our soul is not small." (Fernando Pessoa - Portuguese Poet)