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.
I'm posting this one for Marisa, though she's probably already seen the film. I hope that I can get to USF's Human Rights Film Festival tomorrow to see this one at 1pm.
The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court 2009, 95 min., USA, Filmmaker(s): Pamela Yates, Paco de Onis, and Peter Kinoy
A selection from the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. The International Criminal Court represents the most ambitious attempt ever to apply the rule of law on a global scale and to protect the most basic human rights. The Reckoning follows ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo for three years across four continents as he and his team tirelessly issue arrest warrants for Lord’s Resistance Army leaders in Uganda, prepare to put Congolese warlords on trial, challenge the UN Security Council to bring Sudan's president to justice for the Darfur massacres, and shake up the Colombian justice system. Moreno-Ocampo has a mandate but no police force. At every turn he must put pressure on the international community to muster political clout for the cause. Will the court succeed and will the world ensure that justice prevails?
Trailer -
Watch the full film below. To watch it in "full screen" format click on the icon to the left of the word "Vimeo" -
TAPOLOGO 2008, 88 min., South Africa/Spain, Filmmaker(s): Gabriela Gutierrez Dewar and Sally Gutierrez Dewar
A selection from the Human Rights Watch Film Festival - Freedom Park squatter camp, situated in the Northwest province, accommodates a migrant workforce that mines the world’s largest single source of platinum. The women in this community service the needs of the male miners as a means of basic survival. A group of former sex workers living with HIV have created a network called Tapologo and have learnt to be home-based care-workers, joining in solidarity to care for others in the community living with HIV. As we learn each woman’s story, we come to understand how she herself was transformed—from someone who had lost hope into someone who decided to help others in the same situation.
Yay! Back in October of 2009 I blogged about the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival's call for submissions from youth filmmakers. Following up on that, check this out! I just got this event info from the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival via email:
Please Join Us For 10 Powerful Stories From Young Filmmakers Across the Globe
March 10-11, 2010
Young people are on the frontlines of many of the world’s human rights crises, but it’s all too rare that we get to hear their perspectives. The second edition of Youth Producing Change shares 10 powerful stories, selected from over 300 international submissions from young filmmakers, as they turn a camera on their own lives and share their visions of change.
Film program run time: 72 min.
Teen filmmakers from San Francisco, Seattle and New York will be present to participate in discussion following the screenings.
Read full YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE film lineup here.
Screenings: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 10:00am Free screening for schools and youth groups. Discussion with filmmakers to follow. San Francisco Public Library Koret Auditorium Located on the Library’s lower level Enter 30 Grove Street, proceed down stairs *Please note: this is not a library sponsored event.
Tickets are free, to book a spot for your group please contact SanFranciscoYPC@hrw.org
Thursday March 11, 2010 7:00pm Film screening, and discussion with youth filmmakers. Reception to follow. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Screening Room 701 Mission at 3rd Street (Terrace Level) San Francisco $8 regular, $6 seniors & students, $6 YBCA Members. For tickets visit www.ybca.org or YBCA box office 415-978-ARTS
I was really excited to see that this event is produced with support from Facing History, Facing Ourselves. My best friend Marisa is very involved with the organization. Marisa is amazing:)
photo: Marisa
Check this out, from May 2007:
Swampscott High School (Swampscott, MA)-- A highlight on the Divided We Fall documentary tour, this is the first-ever screening organized entirely by high school students! Eleventh graders in an American Studies class (pictured below) at Swampscott High School share the film with their school and community in a former synagogue. The students are earnest and open, the energy high, the emotion deep. Thank you Marisa Jackson-Hedges, Holly Tatum, and students. (Marisa has joined our dialogue team!)
By the way - I got to see "Divided We Fall" (finally) at San Diego State in September 2008, and it was awesome! Thanks to my old camp friend Meghan Conley Peterson who initially told me about the film :)
Click here for more information and to submit your film. The deadline is December 10, 2009.
Selected films will travel to:
* Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, New York : June 10-24, 2010 * Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, London : March 2011 (Dates TBA) * Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, San Francisco: March 2011 (Dates TBA) * Selected films will be included in the 2010 Traveling Film Festival * Films will be added to the Adobe Youth Voices and Human Rights Watch websites * And distributed to teachers throughout the United States
Thanks! We look forward to seeing your films!
Best Regards,
Jennifer Nedbalsky Program Manager Human Rights Watch Intl Film Festival
Miguel Salinas Senior Program Manager
SOME ADDITIONAL INFO:
About YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE: Armed with digital cameras and their own creativity - young people across the globe are bravely exposing human rights issues faced by themselves and their communities. YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE is a program of short films created by filmmakers under the of 19.
To learn more about YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE check out this podcast - Christina Salerno caught up with some of the young filmmakers at the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival in New York.
To watch the films from the first year of YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE please click here. Click on the tiny box to set the videos to "fullscreen" mode.
To read the summaries of the films that you are watching on the website, gohere and here.
When you go to that website you'll be able to watch all of the films, including this one -- "A Maid Is Not A Slave (Mbindaan Du Jaam)" (2007) - a drama in French with English subtitles, produced as part of the Make the Link, Break the Chain anti-slavery programme. In conjunction with National Museums Liverpool and Plan UK.
It tells the story of Kiné, a young Senegalese girl is sent to the city to work as a maid in order to support her family back home. When her employers begin to abuse her - who is there to protect her?
Created by Mariama Maréna, Seynabou Ciss, Dioundiouba Diagne, Marietou Ndoye Seck, Salimata Sow, Aissatou Gueye Seye, Aminata Dème, Dieynaba Koné - Mariama Ba Girls Boarding School – Senegal, West Africa
