Los Angeles

Join us for our fall Film Club Screening of JOSHUA, followed by a conversation with the movie's Director, Joe Piscatella, and Producer, Andrew Duncan, along with Minky Worden, Human Rights Watch's Director of Global Initiatives, moderated by Pam Bruns, Executive Director of the Student Task Force. Doors open at 4pm at New Roads School in Santa Monica.

Rallying thousands of students to skip school and occupy the streets of Hong Kong, teenager Joshua Wong becomes one of the autonomous territory’s most notorious dissidents, successfully disrupting government plans to devolve power back to China. This inspiring documentary spends years tracking the movement from grassroots disruption to national politics. Following tear gas attacks, multiple arrests and an exhausting 79-day campaign to shut down Hong Kong’s financial district, Joshua moves on to the next phase of the movement—facing down the superpower from inside the government itself.

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On April 9, 2017, Human Rights Watch Los Angeles hosted a Special Screening and Discussion of The Uncondemned, an extraordinary documentary following a group of lawyers and activists who prosecuted rape as a crime against humanity. This is the story of their fight for the first conviction. “What The Uncondemned convincingly demonstrates is the cumulative power of a small group of people with an intense passion for justice, idealists with practical experience whose belief in the power inherent in speaking the truth is not to be denied.” -- Kenneth Turan, LA Times Attendees were invited to stay after the screening for a Q&A moderated by Kenneth Turan of the LA Times, the movie director, Michele Mitchell, and Human Rights Watch’s Senior Counsel for the US Program, Sara Darehshori. The discussion was followed by a reception with the panelists.

Aero Theatre
1328 Montana Avenue 
Santa Monica, California 90403

5:00 pm | Doors open
5:30 pm | Film Screening, followed by panel discussion 
7:30 pm | Reception with drinks and food

The Return examines this unprecedented reform through the eyes of those on the front lines—prisoners suddenly freed, families turned upside down, reentry providers helping navigate complex transitions, and attorneys and judges wrestling with an untested law. At a moment of reckoning on mass incarceration, what can California’s experiment teach the nation?

Join us after the movie for a Q & A with the movie’s directors, protagonists, and HRW’s Children’s Rights senior advocate to discuss the current state of California’s justice system and upcoming changes. The screening and discussion will be followed by a reception with the panelists.

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On January 31, 2016 Human Rights Watch hosted the Los Angeles Premiere and Discussion of Salam Neighbor, a movie following some of the tens of thousands of Syrian refugees living in Jordan. Salam Neighbor follows Zach and Chris, two Americans who head to the edge of war, just seven miles from the Syrian border, to live among 85,000 uprooted refugees in Jordan's Za'atari camp. As the first filmmakers allowed by the United Nations to register and set up a tent inside a refugee camp, Zach and Chris plunge into the heart of the world's most pressing humanitarian crisis.

The movie was followed by a Q&A with the film’s co-director Zach Ingrasci, and producer Salam Darwaza, along with Human Rights Watch's Refugee Program Director Bill Frelick, for a discussion moderated by Asli Bali, Professor of Law at UCLA.