Tonight’s film, by Spanish documentary filmmakers Gabriela Gutierrez Dewar and Sally Gutierrez Dewar, documents the lives of the 20,000 displaced African refugees in a squatter camp called Freedom Park. It is a place where fifty percent of the women are infected with HIV.
Minky Worden, Media Director, Human Rights Watch; Lixin Fan, Director of Last Train Home; Helga Stephenson, Chair Human Rights Watch Film Festival; Jasmine Herlt, Director, Human Rights Watch Canada.
Lixin Fan, director of Last Train Home, shares a laugh with photographer Edward Burtynsky.
Alfonso Vega, lawyer; Helga Stephenson, Chair, Human Rights Watch Film Festival; Gustavo Gutierrez, Former Chief of Police, Juarez City, Mexico.
Photos by Jacquie Labatt, Jacquie Labatt Photography
Professor Sean Hawkins (Professor of History, University of Toronto) introduces tonight’s film, My Neighbour, My Killer, a compassionate exploration into the open air hearings, which started as a social experiment in collective healing after the Rwandan genocide.
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Samer Muscati, a researcher with Human Rights Watch Middle East and North Africa division, introduces tonight’s film, Welcome, writer-director Philippe Lioret’s dramatic chronicle of intersecting lives.
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Scott Long, director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Rights Division at Human Rights Watch is tonight’s special guest at the screening of Be Like Others, an intimate documentary that reveals the restrictions and painful choices forced upon individuals confined to the fringes of Iranian society.
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