For the sixth year, the Museum of Photographic Arts presents a weekend of dynamic films and inspiring conversations at the annual Human Rights Watch Film Festival.
Hosted in MOPA?s state-of-the-art Joan and Irwin Jacobs Theater, the festival will include five films and a special presentation that focus on the power of film to make a difference. A discussion and question-and-answer session will follow each event, featuring filmmakers, human rights experts and audience participation.
?The films and discussions presented at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival connect with MOPA?s goals of creating social awareness through visual media,? said MOPA Executive Director Deborah Klochko. ?This festival demonstrates the importance of understanding visual literacy and highlights the impact of images in our lives.?
The opening night film, I Am Sun Mu, follows North Korean artist Sun Mu as he prepares for an unlikely solo exhibition in China that risks his own freedom and safety. In its West Coast premiere, I Am Sun Mu captures the power of art and visual media to expose the truth. This theme continues throughout the festival films and in the newly added special presentation ? A Right to the Image.
Replacing the usual Saturday matinee, A Right to the Image is a discussion featuring photographer Matt Black and Andrea Holley, Strategic Director of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. The audience will learn about the aesthetic, political and ethical choices around representations of human suffering and injustice.
The remaining festival films showcase a range of political subjects from a counterterrorism informant in (T)error to the life story of Ambassador Richard Holbrooke in The Diplomat. Saturday night?s film documents the history of the Black Panther Party in Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution before the festival comes to a close Sunday with the story of a surprising national threat ? 18 cows on a Palestinian collective farm.
"This year's Human Rights Watch Film Festival at MOPA seeks to engage the San Diego community in dialogue around issues that are affecting us both on the local and global level, including civil liberties, racism, censorship, terrorism and international diplomacy,? said Jennifer Nedbalsky, Associate Director of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. ?We are thrilled that each screening this year will include a discussion with a filmmaker or human rights advocate."
Admission/Cost: Individual films:
For more information, please visit: www.ff.hrw.org
Hosted in MOPA?s state-of-the-art Joan and Irwin Jacobs Theater, the festival will include five films and a special presentation that focus on the power of film to make a difference. A discussion and question-and-answer session will follow each event, featuring filmmakers, human rights experts and audience participation.
?The films and discussions presented at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival connect with MOPA?s goals of creating social awareness through visual media,? said MOPA Executive Director Deborah Klochko. ?This festival demonstrates the importance of understanding visual literacy and highlights the impact of images in our lives.?
The opening night film, I Am Sun Mu, follows North Korean artist Sun Mu as he prepares for an unlikely solo exhibition in China that risks his own freedom and safety. In its West Coast premiere, I Am Sun Mu captures the power of art and visual media to expose the truth. This theme continues throughout the festival films and in the newly added special presentation ? A Right to the Image.
Replacing the usual Saturday matinee, A Right to the Image is a discussion featuring photographer Matt Black and Andrea Holley, Strategic Director of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. The audience will learn about the aesthetic, political and ethical choices around representations of human suffering and injustice.
The remaining festival films showcase a range of political subjects from a counterterrorism informant in (T)error to the life story of Ambassador Richard Holbrooke in The Diplomat. Saturday night?s film documents the history of the Black Panther Party in Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution before the festival comes to a close Sunday with the story of a surprising national threat ? 18 cows on a Palestinian collective farm.
"This year's Human Rights Watch Film Festival at MOPA seeks to engage the San Diego community in dialogue around issues that are affecting us both on the local and global level, including civil liberties, racism, censorship, terrorism and international diplomacy,? said Jennifer Nedbalsky, Associate Director of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. ?We are thrilled that each screening this year will include a discussion with a filmmaker or human rights advocate."
Admission/Cost: Individual films:
For more information, please visit: www.ff.hrw.org
