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**Mahogany posted this on the EVENTS board. We need to try and support this.
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For Immediate Release
FACES OF CHANGE DOCUMENTARY SELECTED
FOR SILVERDOCS International Film Festival 2005
The documentary film, FACES OF CHANGE, selected into the 2005
SILVERDOCS
International Documentary Film Festival in Silver Spring, Maryland will
screen
Saturday June 18th at 2:15 pm at the AFI Silver Theatre (go to
www.silverdocs.com
for location details). Participation in SILVERDOCS marks the national
release for the documentary produced and directed by Michèle Stephenson
and
Firelight Media, a Harlem based media production company.
In FACES OF CHANGE five activists from five different continents send
off
unique video dispatches from their respective corners of the world
telling
stories and showing images that are unlike anything audiences have ever
seen. With
their cameras in hand they walk us through their lives, experiences and
societies, as we see the world through their eyes. Their stories are
rich in
wonderment, humor, pain and unflinching commitment to change. The film
interweaves
their engaging stories and close encounters with racism and
discrimination.
The activists in FACES OF CHANGE are highly focused and passionate.
They are
fallible and conflicted, yet not without humor and wit. They are from
all over
the world. They are: Mohamed, a man from Mauritania, West Africa
campaigning
to end slavery via an underground political movement; Elodia, an
African-American woman organizing her neighborhood of homeowners living
on a condemned
toxic site in New Orleans, Louisiana; Ivan, a Roma (Gypsy) attorney and
doctor
struggling with discrimination and his own self-esteem in Eastern
Europe; Kathir
a Dalit (Untouchable) man fighting to eliminate caste discrimination in
South
India; and Nara, an Afro-Brazilian woman working to instill
self-empowerment
in black teenage girls. Through this whirlwind journey into their
lives, the
audience gets a glimpse of how much like the rest of the world we all
are.
"Video can be a powerful tool to engage a broad audience around racial
issues. Images stir people's emotions' and evoke empathy," explains
director,
Michèle Stephenson. Stephenson trained each activist to use video
cameras and create
a story that would best capture the meaning and power of their work.
With
support from The Ford Foundation, documentary followed the activists to
the UN
World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa and documented
how they
each discovered the stunning commonalities of their history and experiences.
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