Movies That Begin Where the Wars Won't End
By Stephen Holden
June 13, 2003, The New York Times
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"The general, a Canadian who sounded the alarm about the possibility of mass killings, is the subject of Steven Silver's documentary portrait, "The Last Just Man," which is having its New York premiere tomorrow at the Walter Reade Theater as part of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival." More..
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Crusading films
: Can movies change the world?
By David Sterritt
June 13, 2003, The Christian Science Monitor
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"But movies may spark substantive changes, too - after all, mass-marketed entertainments have been affecting people's ideas at least since Harriet Beecher Stowe first picked up a pen. Film and video are the most effective such tools yet devised, because of their ability to reach large numbers of viewers and their capacity for getting under people's skins." More..
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A Festival or Homework?
By Tim Wilson
June 12, 2003, Newsweek Web Exclusive
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"The Human Rights Watch Film Festival used to have an obligatory veneer. But given the troubled international arena, it now has a new pertinence. Just watch those land mines of self-righteousness" More..
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Drama Finds a Palestinian Filmmaker
By Nancy Ramsey
June 12, 2003, The New York Times
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"The film (Rana's Wedding) is based on a true story," Mr. Abu-Assad said by telephone from Park City, Utah, where he was attending the Sundance Institute's Filmmakers Lab. "When I heard the story, I thought, `Wow, this would be great for a movie.' First, there's movement; Rana's searching for her lover, and she has to move from one place to another. Second, it's the story of a Palestinian girl from a conservative family who is becoming an adult. And last is the narrative of the place, about living under occupation." More..
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Regarding the Pain of Others Conflicts of Interest
By Jessica Winter
June 11-17, 2003, The Village Voice |
"If a war-a-go-go media made ravenous by hourly news cycles couldn't find room to account for the ghastly effects of the noble cause, then what are the chances that other victims of human rights abuses‹living outside the American aggro radar‹can have their stories told to the world?
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Packing a punch
By Joshua Tanzer, Offoffoff.com |
"The hard-hitting lineup at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival spotlights political and social issues around the world, with sometimes staggering results." More..
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Stanley Kauffmann on Films Differing Lives and Places
June 6, 2003, The New Republic |
"Once again this festival reminds us that despite the prevalent moans about what is playing at the neighborhood cineplex, film-making of a different kind, less visible but closer to blood and bone, continues intensely throughout the world." More..
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