Mark Your Calendars: September and October

SEPTEMBER:
27th: Director David Lynch will be talking at Bender Arena at AU at 7:30 pm. Admission is free, and you get a free DVD.
Oct.


OCTOBER:
6th Annual Human Rights Film Series, sponsored by the Center for Social Media. Screenings held on Wednesdays, room 603 in Washington College of Law (on Mass. Ave.) and Thursdays in Mary Graydon Center, Wechsler Theatre (third floor)

This is a really neat human rights film series that showcases films that show how film and video can make a difference for human rights. There are discussions with expert speakers follow all screenings.

5th: State of Fear by Paco de Onís, Pam Yates and Peter Kinoy - Center for Social Media
6 pm, room 603 Washington College of Law
--"A gripping and beautifully-crafted story of the creation of President Alberto Fujimori's terror state in Peru, with lessons for a world grappling with the problem of stability in the face of terror. The feature-length documentary, by the celebrated filmmakers of When the Mountains Tremble, shows how the Shining Path guerrilla movement led to military occupation and government corruption in the name of protection from terrorists."

6th:
Fear, Truth, and the Documentary - Center for Social Media
2pm, TV Studio located in the Broadcast Center
--"CSM willhost Paco de Onís and Peter Kinoy, makers of State of Fear, as its fall visiting filmmakers. They will also be working with School of Communication students and offering a public lecture. They are extraordinary exemplars of documentarians with a social conscience."

State of Fear by Paco de Onís, Pam Yates and Peter Kinoy - Center for Social Media
6 pm, Mary Graydon Center, Wechsler Theatre
--"A gripping and beautifully-crafted story of the creation of President Alberto Fujimori's terror state in Peru, with lessons for a world grappling with the problem of stability in the face of terror. The feature-length documentary, by the celebrated filmmakers of When the Mountains Tremble, shows how the Shining Path guerrilla movement led to military occupation and government corruption in the name of protection from terrorists."

Fear, Truth, and the Documentary - Center for Social Media
2 pm, Room 100 in the Broadcast Center
Presentation by Paco de Onís and Peter Kinoy

19th:
Videoletters by Katarina Rejger and Eric van den Broek - Center for Social Media
6pm, room 603 Washington College of Law
--"Whether it's a young man looking for his lost childhood friend or a mother looking for her children's graves, these short TV programs show the reconciling power of storytelling across borders. Dutch filmmakers worked in the Balkans with former friends and neighbors, who were separated as a result of war. Videoletters reunited them, and dramatically-charged half-hour TV shows told the told the world about them. The TV series has created waves in the ex-Yugoslavia, where five national TV stations unprecedentedly agreed to air them simultaneously and where talk shows, internet kiosks and a bus tour of rural areas extended the storytelling. Join the discussion afterwards with Professor Julie Mertus, an expert on human rights and the Balkans, and possibly with a member of the Videoletters team!"

20th:
Videoletters by Katarina Rejger and Eric van den Broek - Center for Social Media
6pm, Mary Graydon Center, Wechsler Theatre
--"Whether it's a young man looking for his lost childhood friend or a mother looking for her children's graves, these short TV programs show the reconciling power of storytelling across borders. Dutch filmmakers worked in the Balkans with former friends and neighbors, who were separated as a result of war. Videoletters reunited them, and dramatically-charged half-hour TV shows told the told the world about them. The TV series has created waves in the ex-Yugoslavia, where five national TV stations unprecedentedly agreed to air them simultaneously and where talk shows, internet kiosks and a bus tour of rural areas extended the storytelling. Join the discussion afterwards with Professor Julie Mertus, an expert on human rights and the Balkans, and possibly with a member of the Videoletters team!"

20th:
Grand Opening of the Katzen Arts Center, at 6 pm

21st- December 17th:
Exhibits at the Katzen Arts Center:
William Allan: Stories and Watercolors
After Bruce Conner: Anonymous, Anonymouse, and Emily Feather
Living Legacy: 60 Years of the Watkins CollectionEmilie Brzezinski: Recent Sculpture
A First Look: David Bates, Gene Davis, Nancy Graves, and Master Drawings from the Katzen Collection

26th:
Sometimes in April by Raoul Peck - Center for Social Media
6pm, room 603 Washington College of Law
--"In April, 1994 in Rwanda, nearly one million people were massacred over one hundred days by Hutu nationalists trying to exert power over their countrymen, the Tutsis. The fiction film, Sometimes in April, focuses on the consequences of this atrocity on two Hutu Brothers, one reluctantly in the military, and the other a nationalist radio personality. By jumping back and forth between the present and 1994, this chilling drama explores both the extent of human brutality, and courage under overwhelming pressure, as well as the West's lack of action while the genocide was taking place."

27th:
Sometimes in April by Raoul Peck - Center for Social Media
6pm, Mary Graydon Center, Wechsler Theatre
--"In April, 1994 in Rwanda, nearly one million people were massacred over one hundred days by Hutu nationalists trying to exert power over their countrymen, the Tutsis. The fiction film, Sometimes in April, focuses on the consequences of this atrocity on two Hutu Brothers, one reluctantly in the military, and the other a nationalist radio personality. By jumping back and forth between the present and 1994, this chilling drama explores both the extent of human brutality, and courage under overwhelming pressure, as well as the West's lack of action while the genocide was taking place."


Let me know if I should post anything else! November and December will come in a few weeks.