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Human Rights Documentary Film Festival


The Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Project will host a Human Rights Film Festival during the Spring 2013 semester. These documentaries expose viewers to many aspects of the struggle to extend human rights to all persons, persuade states to recognize human rights, and enforce human rights protections. Films will be presented at both the Brighton and Damon City campuses along with guest speaker commentary. Selected films include:

CALL ME KUCHU

DCC: 3:30 p.m., Tuesday, February 26 in Rm 4151
BC: 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, February 27 in the Flynn Campus Center Forum
Guest Speaker: Jessica Wilkie, English/Philosophy Department, MCC

Co-sponsor: The MCC Pride Alliance
In an office on the outskirts of Kampala, activist David Kato labors to repeal Uganda's homophobic laws and liberate his fellow lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender men and women, or "kuchus." But David's formidable task becomes more difficult when a new "Anti-Homosexuality Bill" proposes the death penalty for HIV-positive gay men and prison for anyone who fails to turn in a known homosexual. Further description and video clips are available at: https://ff.hrw.org/film/call-me-kuchu.

THE INVISIBLE WAR
DCC: 3:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 26 in Rm 4151
BC: 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 27 in the Flynn Campus Center Forum
Guest Speaker: Patricia Bennett, Military Sexual Trauma Expert at the Rochester Vet Center
Co-Sponsor: The MCC Stars Program
The Invisible War is a groundbreaking investigative documentary about the shameful and underreported epidemic of rape within the US military. Further description and video clips are available at: https://ff.hrw.org/film/invisible-war.

BROTHER NUMBER ONE
DCC: 3:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 16 in Rm 4151
BC: 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 17 in the Brighton Room (3-217)
Guest Speaker: Mike Boester, Assistant Professor of Geography, MCC
New Zealander Rob Hamill's story of his brother's death at the hands of the Khmer Rouge is the means by which Brother Number One explores how the regime and its followers killed nearly 2 million Cambodians between 1975 and 1979. Further description and video clips are available at: https://ff.hrw.org/film/brother-number-one.


Robert L. Muhlnickel
Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Project
01/30/2013