Impugning Impunity | ALBA Human Rights Documentary Film Festival 2014

SCHEDULE / 2014

Monday 9/29
	4:00pm		Vencidxs / Spain [2013]
	6:00pm		Bolivar Twilight / Colombia [2014]
			A Quiet Inquisition / USA [2014] –
			Discussion with filmmaker Alessandra Zeka to follow.
	8:00pm		Cotton Dreams / Poland [2014]
			Freedom From Choice / Australia [2014]
Tuesday 9/30
	4:00pm		Red Father / United States [2014]
			You’re the Enemy – Welcome Back! / UK [2014]
			Discussion with filmmaker Tova Beck-Friedman, Professor James  Fernández (NYU),& VALB Bernard Ades’ daughter, Naava Ades, to follow.
	6:00pm		Invisible Heroes: African Americans in the Spanish Civil War
			/ Spain/USA [2014]
			Discussion with filmmaker Jordi Torrent, Professor James Fernandez (NYU) & David Levering Lewis (NYU & Silver University) to follow.
	8:00pm		Resolute / Canada [2014]
			The Second Cooler / USA [2013]
			Discussion with filmmaker Ellin Jimmerson to follow.
Wednesday 10/1	4:30pm		High Hopes / Palestine [2014]
			Bastards: Outcast in Morocco / Morocco [2014] 1971 / USA [2014]
	6:30pm		Discussion with producer Danielle Varga & Frederick “Fritz” Schwarz, former Chief Counsel to the Church Committee (formerly the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Activities with Respect to Intelligence Activities) & Festival Reception to follow.

 

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This year the best film from the Official Selection, as determined by a distinguished jury, will receive the Harry Randall Award for best human rights documentary of 2014.  This honor was created in memory of Harry W. Randall, Jr. (1915-2012), who served in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War as Chief Photographer of the Photographic Unit of the 15th International Brigade.

The 2014 jury is composed of Peter Coyote, Bryan Stevenson, and Pamela Yates.

Peter Coyote is an actor, author, director, screen-writer and narrator of films, theatre,television and, audio books.

Bryan A. Stevenson is the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice
Initiative. He is the  2014 laureate of the ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism.

 

 

Pamela Yates is a documentary film-maker, human rights activist, and  is a co-founder of Skylight Pictures.

Impugning Impunity: ALBA’s Human Rights Film Festival is made possible in part with public funds from the Fund for Creative Communities, supported by New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.