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About me: Planning is currently underway for the 17th Annual Seattle Human Rights Film Festival
SAVE THE DATE!!!
February 6th - February 8th, 2009
Northwest Film Forum
1515 12th Ave
Seattle, WA 98102
(between Pike and Pine on Capitol Hill)
*additional dates and locations to be announced
Launched in 1992, the Seattle Human Rights Film Festival (SHRFF) grew out of local activists' sincere devotion to the cause of promoting human rights around the world and our belief in the power of film to aid that cause. It brings to the Seattle area films that otherwise would not be available - and in doing so, fosters awareness of critical, though often-times overlooked human rights issues. Hope, survival, and positive change are themes carried across many of the films, and for festival-goers, SHRFF has become a catalyst for continued participation in human rights work throughout the year. The festival is put on by Amnesty International Puget Sound, an all-volunteer organization.
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In case you missed NEW YEAR BABY at this year's fantastic Seattle Human Rights Film Festival, ITVS Community Cinema Seattle is presenting a free screening of the film THIS Saturday at 4pm at the NW Film Forum. Here are the details:
NEW YEAR BABY is the first documentary directed by a Cambodian-American woman about her family's survival. The film is a personal documentary - a search for the truth about how Socheata Poeuv's family survived the Khmer Rouge genocide and why they buried the truth for so long. NEW YEAR BABY will play Saturday, May 10 at 4:00 PM at the Northwest Film Forum in Seattle, Washington. Doors open at 3:30 PM. There is no charge to attend this event. More info at communitycinema.org
Director Socheata Poeuv explains, "My father pruned our trees in a sarong with a kitchen cleaver. My mother stored stinky fermented fish under the sink. My parents made us go to Buddhist temple on Saturdays and Bible study on Sundays. In some ways, they never left Cambodia though we lived in Dallas, Texas. While I thought everything about my parents was 'old country,' they were desperately trying to forget their past. They are survivors of the Khmer Rouge genocide. In fact my whole family is, and it’s something they almost never talk about."
This event is co-sponsored by the Independent Television Service (ITVS), KCTS Television Seattle, KBCS 91.3 FM, Colors NW Magazine, The Wing Luke Asian Museum, Amnesty International of Washington, and the Northwest Film Forum. Free to all.
WHAT: Special community screening of NEW YEAR BABY and discussion with local families WHEN: Saturday, May 10, 2008 from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM (doors at 3:30 PM) WHERE: Northwest Film Form - 1515 12th Ave at Pike
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Yeah, I am so glad that you are active Amnesty Members. I am a SAC for Southern California and most of my studnet groups and the local group are all going to put a film fest later this year. But we will only be showing and talking about movies. Thanks for all your work.
