Second Annual Global Film Series

THURSDAY, MARCH 29

CUNY J-School
219 W. 40th street

11:00-12:15 STOLEN directed by Violeta Ayala and Daniel Fallshaw
An examination of a complicated system of slavery in
Western Sahara.

12:30 – 1:30 THE PEOPLE THE RAIN FORGOT directed by Sophia Tewa ‘09
An account of the debilitating effects of climate change in rural Kenya

2:30 – 3:45 The International Reporting Project sponsors
a series of short films from Liberia, England, Afghanistan. With a panel discussion featuring the filmmakers.

4:00 – 5:30 From YouTube to the Silver Screen, an educational program for NYC high school and CUNY students journalists and filmmakers. We will short pieces about girls and young women in Afghanistan and other countries. Dean Stephen Shepard delivers welcoming remarks.

DCTV
87 Lafayette Street

7:00 RECEPTION

7:30 LAS ABUELAS de PLAZA de MAYO AND The Search FOR IDENTITY produced by Dr. C.A. Tuggle As many as 30,000 dissidents of the Argentinian military dictatorship were kidnapped,
tortured, and killed during the Dirty War between 1976 and 1983. A movement headed by a group called Las Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, or the Grandmothers of May Plaza, is dedicated to finding their missing grandchildren, now in the 20s and 30s, who were taken from their mothers as babies and given to supporters of the military regime. This is an account of the grandmother’s movement and the grandchildren they have found.

8:30—9:00 An interview with C.A. Tuggle, professor and director of the journalism program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

FRIDAY MARCH 30

CCNY
Steinman Hall, Grove School of Engineering
160 Convent Avenue

6:00 RECEPTION SPONSORED BY THE CHANCELLOR’S OFFICE

7:00 – 8:00 THE WAR WE ARE LIVING Produced by Oriana Zill. Written by Pamela Hogan and Oriana Zill. In Cauca, a mountainous region in Colombia’s Pacific southwest, two extraordinary Afro-Colombian women are braving a violent struggle over their gold-rich lands. They are standing for a generation of Afro-Colombians who have been terrorized and forcibly displaced as a deliberate strategy of war.

8:00 – 8:45 PANEL: Impact of Afro-Latina women activists, with activists, filmmakers and journalists. Featuring Oriana Zill and moderated by Linda Villarosa, director of CCNY journalism program.

SATURDAY MARCH 31

CUNY J-SCHOOL

12:00 – 1:30 THE CARRIER directed by Maggie Betts
A Zambian woman, one of three wives, contracts HIV and battles to protect her unborn baby from the virus in a remote village where few escape exposure.

1:30 Intermission

2:00- 3:00 NO WOMAN NO CRY directed by Christy Turlington
The powerful stories of at-risk pregnant women in four parts of the world, including a remote Maasai tribe in Tanzania, a slum of Bangladesh, a post-abortion care ward in Guatemala, and a prenatal clinic in the United States.

3:15- 4 Panel moderated by Lisa Armstrong on maternal health issues worldwide.

4:15- 6 Women and Children in Crisis: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Shorts Program. Featuring: Too Young to Wed by Stephanie Sinclair on the phenomenon of child brides in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, India and Yemen; Left in Limbo: Nepalese Adoptions Halted, and Outlawed in Pakistan about rape and the subsequent “honor” killings of women and young girls, both by Habiba Nosheen; The Clarinetist about youth violence in Juarez and the healing power of music by Dominic Bracco and Susan Seijas; and current work from a collaborative reporting project between African and US journalists on reproductive health in Liberia, South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya. With a panel discussion featuring Nathalie Applewhite, managing director of the Pulitzer Center and award-winning filmmaker Habiba Nosheen.

6—6:45 Reception sponsored by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

7:00 – 8:20 A BITTER TASTE OF FREEDOM directed by Marina Goldovskaya
In her quest to uncover the wrongdoings of the Russian authorities, Anna Politkovskaya inspired awe in some and fear in countless others. An investigative journalist for Moscow’s liberal Novaya Gazeta, she was often the only spokesperson for victims of the Chechen War. Hers was a lonely voice, yet loud enough for the entire country to hear. It was too loud. At age 48 she was assassinated for simply doing her job.

8:20 – 9:00 A conversation with Marina Goldovskaya