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Unwanted Witness: Ticket On-Sale Reminder

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September 2  |  Toronto International Film Festival, Unwanted Witness  |   julie

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9tFvVTPRvM&eurl=http://www.contravia.tv/[/youtube]
 
A reminder that tickets to “Unwanted Witness” go on sale, tomorrow, Wednesday, September 3 at 7 AM.
 
Tickets cost $19.29 or $16.67 for students and seniors.
 
Screening dates and locations as follows:
Friday, September 5, 8:30 PM at the Varsity 4
Monday, September 8, 6:30 PM at the AMC 4.
Saturday, September 13, 6:45 PM at the Varsity 2
 
Tickets can be purchased online from the TIFF Website, by phone at 416-968-FILM, or in person at the Festival Box Office at Manulife Centre, the Festival Box Office at Toronto Life Square, or the Festival Box Office at Roy Thompson Hall.
 
Hollman Morris, the documentary’s key figure, will be in attendance for the premiere on September 5th.
 
Featured above is a segment from Contravía, Hollman’s weekly television show.
 

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Unwanted Witness: Screening Update

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August 28  |  Toronto International Film Festival, Unwanted Witness  |   julie


 
TIFF has posted the screening times and locations for “Unwanted Witness” (”Témoin indésirable”). Please note if you are searching the TIFF site to use the Spanish-language version of the title: “Sin Tregua.”
 
“Unwanted Witness is a complex portrait of Colombian journalist Hollman Morris whose weekly  television show, Contravía, boldly confronts the violence that ravages his homeland.
 
TIFF screenings of “Unwanted Witness” take place:
Friday, September 5, 8:30 PM at the Varsity 4
Monday, September 8, 6:30 PM at the AMC 4.
Saturday, September 13, 6:45 PM at the Varsity 2
 
Tickets to “Unwanted Witness” go on sale Wednesday, September 3 at 7 AM and can be purchased online from the TIFF Website, by phone at 416-968-FILM, or in person at the Festival Box Office at Manulife Centre, the Festival Box Office at Toronto Life Square, or the Festival Box Office at Roy Thompson Hall.
 
Tickets cost $19.29 or $16.67 for students and seniors.
 

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Unwanted Witness To Screen At TIFF

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August 25  |  Toronto International Film Festival, Unwanted Witness  |   julie


 
“Cuts straight to the truth… vertigo-inducing”  — Le Temps
“Excellent documentary”  — L’Hebdo
“Like a thriller”  — 24 heures
“Words that ring true”  — Le Courrier
 
Unwanted Witness” (“Témoin indésirable”), a documentary by Juan José Lozano, will have its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday, September 5 with a second screening to follow on Saturday, September 6. Times for the screenings have yet to be announced.
 
The documentary tells the story of Hollman Morris, an internationally acclaimed journalist whose weekly  television show, Contravía, boldly confronts the violence that ravages his homeland of Colombia.
 
Through dozens of half-hour shows, Hollman Morris has filmed eyewitness accounts of the most serious human rights situations in Colombia, constituting one of the most important video archives of the country’s recent history.
 
Winner of the 2007 ‘Human Rights Defender Award‘ from Human Rights Watch and an honoree at last year’s  ‘Voices for Justice’ Dinner, Hollman will be in Toronto for the premiere.
 
Tickets to “Unwanted Witness” go on sale Wednesday, September 3 at 7 AM and can be purchased online from the TIFF Website, by phone at 416-968-FILM, or in person at the Festival Box Office at Manulife Centre, the Festival Box Office at Toronto Life Square, or the Festival Box Office at Roy Thompson Hall.
 
Tickets cost $19.29 or $16.67 for students and seniors.
 

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Kenneth Roth Responds to Op Ed Piece on Colombian Trade Deal

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January 9  |  News  |   julie

Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, for Human Rights Watch, responded today to an opinion piece (subscription only) by Ken Frankel in The Globe & Mail, regarding the free-trade deal negotiated by the Harper government with Colombia.

Text of the letter follows:

No trade deal for Colombia
KENNETH ROTH, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch
January 9, 2008

New York — Ken Frankel (A Trade Deal Is Good For Colombian Human Rights – Jan. 8) is mistaken that a free-trade agreement would improve Colombia’s human-rights situation. Colombia’s human-rights scenario is so serious that an agreement might even make things worse.

For years, Colombia has had the highest rate of killings of trade unionists in the world. More than 400 trade unionists have been killed during the government of President Alvaro Uribe, fewer than 3 per cent of cases have been solved.

Meanwhile, the Uribe administration is embroiled in a scandal over links involving high-ranking officials and congressmen from his coalition with paramilitary death squads responsible for many of the killings. Rather than support investigations, Mr. Uribe has lashed out against judges and journalists trying to break the paramilitaries’ influence.

If Canada really wants to help Colombia, it should follow Congress’s example by using free trade as leverage and telling Colombia’s government that, if it wants a free-trade agreement, it must first clean up its act on human rights.

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