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7TH ANNUAL HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FEST

ECHO PARK FILM CENTER
7th Annual Human Rights Film Festival
October 27 & 28, 2007

You are cordially invited to the 7th Annual Human Rights Film Festival, curated and hosted by the Echo Park Film Center. The goal of the festival is to highlight social justice issues too often ignored by the mainstream media. This year, we present an engaging variety of documentary and experimental films that explore themes of home and community.

Basic human rights, including the right to peacefully assemble, the right to religious freedom, the right of political sovereignty and the right to life and liberty, are often taken for granted in Western industrialized nations. In the post-9/11 landscape, issues of human rights are increasingly crucial and closer to home than ever before.

Share your ideas and experience! We urge you to participate and take ownership of the festival, deconstructing the traditional barriers between filmmaker and audience. The films presented here are vehicles to promote thought, discussion, debate and action.

The Human Rights Film Festival is a free event, open to the general public. Seating is limited and available on a first-come basis.

ALL SCREENINGS WILL BE HELD AT:
ECHO PARK FILM CENTER
1200 N. ALVARADO ST. (at SUNSET BLVD.)
LOS ANGELES, CA 90026

MORE INFO: 213-484-8846 * www.echoparkfilmcenter.org
2007 HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL @ EPFC
1200 N. ALVARADO ST., LOS ANGELES, CA, 90026 * 213-484-8846

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27
7:30 PM – TRESPASSING
Dir: Carlos DeMenezes, 116 min., USA, 2006

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28
12 NOON – KAMP KATRINA
Dir: Ashley Sabin, 74 min., 2007, USA

1:30 PM – INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
MOST - THE BRIDGE - Dir: Haris Bilajbegovic, 12 min., Austria, 2007
CONDUIT OF DISPLACEMENT – Dir: Sinisa Kukic, 4 min., USA, 2004
MIMOUNE - Dir: Gonzalo Ballester, 11 min., Spain, 2007
THREE QUEER MICE – Dir: Daniel Feliciano, Amanda Moscoso, Tatiana Lam, Corina Leu, Alcides Torres, 2 min., USA, 2007
TAKE ME HOME - Dir: Andreea Teodorescu, 3 min., USA, 2007
LISTEN TO IRAN’S PEOPLE: A CALL FOR PEACE – Dir: Margot Smith, 28 min., USA, 2007
HUMAN BEINGS – Nabawia El-Soudani, 4 min., USA 2004
EVEN IF SHE HAD BEEN A CRIMINAL – Dir: Jean-Gabriel Périot, 10 min., France, 2006

3:00 PM – HUMMINGBIRD
Dir: Holly Mosher, 50 min., USA, 2007

4:30 PM – DISPATCHES FROM OAXACA
Land Rain and Fire: Report From Oaxaca - Dir: Tami Gold & Gerardo Renique, 28 min., USA, 2006
El Golpe - Dir: Benjamin Alonso, Francisca Caporali, Frida Peoples & Gerardo Renique, 12 min, Mexico, 2007

5:30 PM – TOVARISH, I AM NOT DEAD
Dir: Stuart Urban, 83 min., UK, 2007

7:30 PM – VIEW FROM A GRAIN OF SAND
Dir: Meena Nanji, 82 min, USA, 2006