2011 Human Rights Film Festival opening night: Youth Producing Change :: San Francisco, March 10

I attended this event last year - see previous post for background about this event. Great stuff!

Adobe Youth Voices presents the World premiere of Youth Producing Change, an innovative program of youth-produced short films from across the globe showcased with the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. Eleven films will be shown this year, selected from over 250 international submissions. Presented in association with Facing History and Ourselves.

Watch as teen filmmakers turn the camera on their own lives and invite audiences to experience the world as they do – as a Kenyan teenager living in Africa's second largest slum, as a 15-year-old girl in India who needs to chose between supporting her family or getting an education or as a 14-year-old Afghan seeking asylum after his father was killed by the Taliban.

Thurs March 10
7:00pm
Film screening (film program run time is 72 minutes). Discussion with youth filmmakers from LA, San Antonio and Canada to follow. The night ends with a reception.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts - Screening Room
701 Mission at 3rd Street (Terrace Level) San Francisco, CA
$8 regular, $6 seniors & students, $6 YBCA Members.
Seating is limited to 90 seats, advanced ticket purchase strongly suggested.

Founding Presenter: Adobe Youth Voices.

Half the Sky author Sheryl WuDunn & Global Fund for Women ED Kavita Ramdas Tonight :: San Francisco, CA. May 24.

Should have posted this earlier ... woops!

Community Conversations: Author Sheryl WuDunn in conversation with Global Fund for Women Executive Director Kavita Ramdas

TODAY! Monday, May 24th, 2010
6:30-8:00 pm
Palace of Fine Arts - 3301 Lyon St., San Francisco

RSVP by 3 PM to Reserve your Seat!



Asylum Access partners with Facing History and Ourselves to present a heartwarming, thought-provoking evening with Sheryl WuDunn, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and co-author of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.

WuDunn will share stories of resilience, innovation, and empowerment from women around the world in the course of her conversation with Kavita Ramdas, the President and CEO of the Global Fund for Women.

Through her work in the interests of vulnerable populations around the world, WuDunn presents us all with a call not only to protect the world's vulnerable populations, but to actively fight injustice.