AMNESTY INTERNATION USA  

Peter Benenson (1921-2005)

http://www.amnestyusa.org/filmfest/

About Amnesty International

In late 1960, a British lawyer named Peter Benenson (1921 - 2005) learned that two students had been sentenced to seven years in prison for daring to toast to freedom in a Lisbon bar. Outraged, Benenson published an article in the London Observer on May 28, 1961 asking readers to write letters to Portugese officials demanding the students release. The article unleashed a wave of support for the students and other prisoners of conscience, and Amnesty International was born.


Film Festival

MISSION:
Few artistic media have the power to reach across cultures, languages, and even time itself to influence millions of people in the language of our daily lives. Film has such power. Each year dozens of talented filmmakers work against long odds, short finances, and threatening politics to bring to the screen powerful stories of human struggle, sacrifice, and triumph. Some documentary filmmakers have risked their very lives so that we may be moved by far-off stories that, once told, seem very much closer to home. The Amnesty International Film Festival is dedicated to bringing these stories to our communities so that our colleagues, neighbors, and friends can see for themselves the full-range of challenges facing people in every part of the world.

PROGRAMMING:
The Amnesty International Film Festival was launched in the United States in Seattle in 1992 with the purpose of showcasing the best in documentary and fiction filmmaking related to human rights. Both because of the tremendous global reach of Amnesty International, and because we have focused on building relationships directly with filmmakers, production companies, television stations, and other film festivals around the world, we are able to offer programming that in many cases will simply never be seen anywhere else in the U.S. These include dozens of documentary filmssome feature length and others shortersome fiction films, animated pieces, and occasionally foreign broadcasts that are otherwise inaccessible to U.S. audiences. In addition, we are also proud to screen some of the most noteworthy and celebrated documentary films made here in the U.S. each year, including many that will go on to air on PBS, HBO, or other networks. The festival also takes pains to include archive presentations of classic feature films from major studios with strong human rights content that help us to place todays issues in an important historical context (Universal Pictures(c) "Missing" (2002 West Hollywood Festival) or Warner Bros.(c) "The Killing Fields" (2003 West Hollywood Festival).
The festival had a gala screening of the extremaly film "Strip Search" Glenn Close and Maggie Gyllenhaal that exploresthe two stories of two different suspects questioned and then strip-searhed by government officials in a post-9/11 environment. The film is a collaboration of Emmy winning "Oz" creator Tom Fontana, Oskar-winner Barry Levinson.



"ARTIVIST" is the 1st international activist film festival dedicated to addressing Human Rights, Children''s Advocacy, Animal Rights and Environmental Preservation through Film, Visual Arts and Music. Its mission is to strengthen the voice of international activist artists - "Artivists" - while raising public awareness for social global causes.

The Artivist Awards
Amnesty International Film Festival

Сайт создан в системе uCoz