Tuesday, April 17, 2007
4th Annual New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival
April 12 – 22, 2007Ten Days
Fifty films
Five US premieres!
Live music, guest filmmakers and actors, special guest presenters, workshops, and more. Venues include Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, Ashé Cultural Arts Center, One Eyed Jacks, and Canal Place Cinemas.
Highlights include a benefit concert featuring Righteous Babe Records recording artist Toshi Reagon, several evenings of films by New Orleans filmmakers, the first fiction film shot in Iraq under US occupation, award-winning films from Lebanon, Mali, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, Australia, Cuba and Palestine; plus an appearance by actor/producer Danny Glover.
See www.nolahumanrights.org for a complete schedule, updates, and more. You may also email questions to info@nolahumanrights.org, or call (504) 827-5858.
Tuesday, April 17
Ashé Cultural Arts Center
6pm: NOLA Students Speak Out! Selections from the Ashe Cultural Arts
Center youth filmmaking camp, and Students at the Center (40 minutes)
These moving films by New Orleans high school students cover a range
of important topics and themes. Filmmakers present.
7pm: Special Program sponsored by New Orleans World Social Forum
Organizing Committee
Notes From Porto Alegre (28 min) In January 2005, youth producers
traveled to Porto Alegre, Brazil to participate in the World Social
Forum.
Plus Special guests
This event is free
8:30pm: Heartlines: (97 minutes) After serving a jail sentence for
theft, Mayisa, a young man with a cruel past and an uncertain future,
is released. A heartwarming film about the road to redemption.
Ashé Cultural Arts Center at 6pm: NOLA Students Speak Out!
Selections from the Ashé Cultural Arts Center youth filmmaking camp, and Students at the Center (40 minutes) These moving films by New Orleans high school students cover a range of important topics and themes. Filmmakers present.
Ashé Cultural Arts Center at 7pm:
Special Program sponsored by New Orleans US Social Forum Organizing Committee
Notes From Porto Alegre: (28 min) In January 2005, youth producers traveled to Porto Alegre, Brazil to participate in the World Social Forum. Plus Special guests - This event is free
Ashé Cultural Arts Center at 8:30pm:
Heartlines: (97 minutes) After serving a jail sentence for theft, Mayisa, a young man with a cruel past and an uncertain future, is released. A heartwarming film about the road to redemption.
Wednesday, April 18
Ashe Cultural Arts Center at 6pm:
Free Ya Hood: (80 minutes) Highlights New York City activists' work organizing against police brutality.
