Human Rights Watch Researcher, Eric Guttschuss, will introduce the film, Suffering and Smiling, a special presentation of Human Rights Watch and the Institute for Contemporary Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum.
Guttschuss is Nigerian research at Human Rights Watch, where his work has focused on inter-communal violence in northern Nigeria, extrajudicial killings by government security forces, and police corruption.
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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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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Director Lixin Fan will be a special guest at tonight’s Human Rights Watch Film Festival Opening Night Gala.
Lixin will introduce his award-winning film, Last Train Home, and participate in a Q&A session with Human Rights Watch Media Director, Minky Worden.
Human Rights Watch Canada Executive Director, Jasmine Herlt, was a guest of the weekly arts program, “The More the Merrier” where she talked about four of the 10 films featured in this year’s festival — Backyard, Be Like Others, Last Train Home and The Greatest Silence.
“The More the Merrier” is hosted by donna g and plays Saturdays from 1 to 2 PM on CIUT 89.5 FM or http://ciut.fm/
