13056: Minsky: Film-NYC Roboteau Trial-9/06- Pote Mak Sonje (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: "tminsky@ix.netcom.com" <tminsky@ix.netcom.com>


 Friday 6 September 2002


 6:30p.m. Transitional Justice: Experiences in South Africa and Haiti
 Location: Millennium Film Workshop, 66 East Fourth Street, New York, New
 York
 Ticket Prices: $9 regular, $5 student/low-income
 Box office opens at 6:00p.m.



 South Africa: Beyond a Miracle. John J. Michalczyk and Paul Goudreau,
2001.
 54 minutes. This one-hour documentary graphically chronicles South
Africa’s
 evolution from a harrowing apartheid to a cautious democracy.

 World Premiere Pote Mak Sonje: The Raboteau Trial. Harriet Hirshorn and
 Christine Cynn, 2002. 57 minutes. This hour-long documentary shows how a
 community mobilized against formidable obstacles (decades of impunity,
 corruption, lack of infrastructure, extreme poverty, and illiteracy) to
try
 and convict sixteen paramilitary members and their associates for their
 participation in the 1994 massacre of civilians in their neighborhood,
 Raboteau, in the provincial town of Gonaives, Haiti. For Haitians and for
 human rights advocates, the trial and conviction was a landmark,
symbolizing
 the end of a long history of impunity that for years protected the
political
 and military elite in Haiti.



 Panelists:
 § Reed Brody, Human Rights Watch
 § Louis Bickford, International Center for Transitional Justice
 § Christine Cynn, filmmaker: The Raboteau Trial
 § John J. Michalczyk, filmmaker: South Africa
 § Harriet Hirshorn, filmmaker: The Raboteau Trial
 § Moderator: Erin Hale DeOrnellas, Center for Peace and Human
 Security

--------------------------------------------------------------------
mail2web - Check your email from the web at
http://mail2web.com/ .