The 7th annual Toronto Human Rights Watch Film Festival closed Saturday night with Presumed Guilty, a powerful documentary about the judiciary process in Mexico and one young man’s fight to prove his innocence amid systemic corruption and entrenched mediocrity. Mary Jo Leddy, Director of Romero House and Adjunct Professor, Regis College, University of Toronto delivered the opening address.
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Tonight’s film, Presumed Guilty, will be introduced by Mary Jo Leddy, Director of Romero House and Adjunct Professor, Regis College, University of Toronto. She is pictured above at Romero House with Governor General Michaëlle Jean.
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Tonight’s film, Back Home, Tomorrow, focuses on two children who confront changed lives in very different circumstances after becoming victims of war-torn environments. Yagoub has fled Darfur to the Mayo refugee camp in Khartoum, Sudan, where he waits for a heart operation to save his life. Seven-year-old Murtaza has lost his left hand to a land mine in Afghanistan. In heart-rending detail, directors Fabrizio Lazzaretti and Paolo Santolini follow Murtaza and Yagoub from their initial admission into hospitals in Kabul and Khartoum, respectively, to their release months later.
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Interview with Backyard lead actress Ana de la Reguera and supporting actor Joaquin Cosio for Terra TV (Mexico). Based on true events, Backyard is a drama that focuses on the hundreds of unsolved murders of women in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
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Brad MacIntosh, Vice Chair of SAFER (Social Aid for the Elimination of Rape) and a researcher at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Hospital introduces tonight’s film, The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo.
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