HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAM VIDEO CATALOG 2008-9

Our Mission

Founded in 1999, the HRWIFF High School Program is a human rights media resource. Our program offers videos and educational materials to high school and after-school teachers across the country. Our mission is to promote the inclusion of human rights curricula in secondary and after-school education and to inspire youth dialogue and youth media production around issues of human rights.

Please take a moment to look through our catalog and contact Program Manager Jen Nedbalsky with all video requests at (212) 216-1247 or .

Film Index:

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Human Rights Watch Film Festival High School Program

2008-9 Video Catalog – Page 1


· 90 Miles 3

· Al Otro Lado (The Other Side) 3

· Alienated 4

· All I Can Be 25

· Amu 4

· Another Brother 4

· Asparagus! (A Stalk-umentary) 26

· Awaiting Tomorrow 5

· Bad Choices 25

· Battleground Minnesota 25

· Behind Closed Eyes 6

· Behind the Labels: Garment

Workers on U.S. Saipan 6

· Big Enough 6

· Biorhythms 7

· Book ‘Em: Undereducated,

Over Incarcerated 27

· Books Not Bars 7, 24

· The Boys of Baraka 7

· Bread 26

· Brother Outsider 8

· Bush for Peace 24

· The Camden 28 8

· The Children of Birmingham 24

· Chinatown in the Aftermath 8

· Class Dismissed 9

· Copwatch 23

· Darfur Now 9

· Darfur Destroyed and

Night Commuters: Uganda’s

Forgotten Children of War 10

· Day of Remembrance 24

· Dedicated to my Family 24

· The Devil’s Miner 10

· Diane Wilson: A Warrior’s Tale 23

· Discovering Dominga 10

· Dual Injustice: Feminicide

and Torture In Ciudad Juarez

and Chihuahua 11

· A Duty to Protect: Justice for

Child Soldiers in the D.R.C. 11

· The Education of Shelby Knox 12

· The Empire’s New Clothes 12

· Esmeraldas:

Petroleum and Poverty 23

· Every Mother's Son 12

· Eyes on the Fair Use

of the Prize 26

· Face to Face: Stories

from the Aftermath of Infamy 23

· Farmingville 13

· Fast and Reliable 25

· Fenced Out 13

· The Flute Player 13

· The Forest for the Trees 14

· Freedom Machines 14

· Georgie Girl 15

· Girl Like Me 26

· A Girl Named Kai 25

· The Greatest Silence: Rape 15

in the Congo

· Happy Ending 25

· (Hate) Machine 26

· Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and 15

Rhymes

· Holla Back Dubai! 23

· Homecoming 25

· How to Make a Bird 23

· How Wal-Mart Came

To Haslett 26

· I Promise Africa 24

· iThemba 24

· ICC: A Call for Justice 16

· In the Morning 25

· In Transit 25

· Invisible Revolution 17

· It Ain't Love 16

· Juvies 17

· Kilowatt Ours 17

· A Kind of Childhood 18

· Laptop 26

· Laugh at the Fat Kid 24

· Lean On Me 24

· Lioness 18

· Living Rights 19

· The Lost Boys of Sudan 19

· Love and Diane 19

· The Luckiest Nut in The World 25

· Lumo 20

· Luv Me Latex 20

· Made in LA 21

· Maquilapolis: City of Factories 21

· Me and Rubyfruit Program 22

· The Meatrix 24

· Third Media

That Matters Film Festival 23

· Fourth Media

That Matters Film Festival 24

· Fifth Media

That Matters Film Festival 25

· Sixth Media

That Matters Film Festival 26

· Seventh Media that Matters 27

Film Festival

· A Mile Walked 28

· Military Myths 28

· My American Girls 28

· My Country, My Country 29

· My Name Girl 29

· Neglected Sky 25

· No More Tears Sister 29

· The News is What We Make It 25

· Night Visions 26

· No Child 26

· No More Tears Sister 30

· Not Me, Not Mine:

Adult Survivors of Foster Care 31

· Notes from Porto Alegre 31

· Novela, Novela 24

· Nuyorican Dream 30

· Of Civil Wrongs and Rights:

The Fred Korematsu Story 31

· Omar & Pete 31

· Outlawed 31

· A Panther In Africa 32

· Permission 26

· Persons of Interest 32

· Pizza Surveillance Feature 25

· POPaganda: The Art and

Subversion of Ron English 24

· Please Vote for Me 33

· Postcards From Peje 33

· Prisontown, USA 34

· Promises 34

· Public Enemy 35

· Punam 35

· Rebel 23

· Recycle 24

· Revolution ’67 35

· Rights on the Line: Vigilantes

at the Border 37

· Rosita 37

· Rules of the Game 25

· Scenes From an Endless War 38

· Schools: Equality Please! 38

· Scout's Honor 39

· Seeds of Hope 25

· Seen But Not Heard 37

· Sentenced Home 38

· Shadya 38

· Sierra Leone’s Refugee Allstars 38

· Silence Speaks 24

· The Sixth Section 39

· Slip of the Tongue 26

· Soldados: Chicanos in Viet Nam 39

· Something Other Than Other 25

· Sonic Memorial Project 23

· Spring in Awe 24

· Standing Silent Nation 39

· State of Denial 40

· State of Fear 40

· Still Standing 41

· Storm 23

· Strange Culture 41

· Street Fight 43

· Suffering and Smiling 43

· Struggling to Survive 24

· System Failure 44

· Tales from Real Life 44

· Thirst 45

· To See If I’m Smiling 45

· Toilet Training 45

· Tough On Crime,

Tough On Our Kind 46

· Twelve Disciples of

Nelson Mandela 46

· Vicious Circle 47

· Voice of the Prophet 47

· Vision Test 23

· Waging a Living 47

· War Feels Like War 48

· War Takes 48

· Water Warriors 27

· We’ll Never Meet Childhood

Again 48

· We Were Humans 24

· Well Founded Fear 48

· Who’s Streets? Our Streets!:

The True Face of Youth Activism 49

· The Works of Sadie Benning 50

· World on Fire 25

· Yo Soy Boricua

(Pa’Que Tu Lo Sepas!)

(I’m Puerto Rican, Just so you know.) 50

· Young Agrarians 25

· Youth Producing Change 50

Human Rights Watch Film Festival High School Program

2008-9 Video Catalog – Page 1


90 MILES

Directed By: Juan Carlos Zaldivar

Produced In: USA 2001

Running Time: 79 minutes

Genre: Documentary

Language: English and Spanish with English subtitles

Themes: Cuba, Cultural Identity: Latino, Immigration

Distributor: Frameline

Synopsis:

In 1980, filmmaker Juan Carlos Zaldivar was a thirteen-year-old Communist demonstrating against thousands of people who were deserting Cuba in the Mariel boatlift. Ironically, that same year, Juan Carlos' father demands that he and his older sister decide whether their family should join the overcrowded boat lifts and immigrate to the United States to rejoin their relatives in Miami. This would mean leaving behind their homeland Cuba, possibly forever. Eight years later, after moving to Miami, Juan Carlos is the only one of his family who is willing to go back to visit Cuba. Shot over a period of five years, 90 MILES looks at issues of trust, pride, and responsibility and how the complexity of these issues shape the attitudes of Cubans towards the world and the people they love. This film puts a face to a politically charged topic and serves as a testament to the Cuban and Cuban-American experience.

AL OTRO LADO (TO THE OTHER SIDE)

Directed By: Natalia Almada

Produced In: USA/Mexico 2005

Running Time: 56 minutes

Genre: Documentary

Language: Spanish (with English Subtitles)

Themes: Cultural Identity: Latino, Immigration

Distributor: Altamura films

Synopsis:

"Al Otro Lado (To the Other Side)" tells the human story behind illegal immigration and drug trafficking between the U.S. and Mexico through the eyes of Magdiel, a 23-year-old fisherman and aspiring composer who dreams of a better life. For people south of the border, the "other side" is the dream of an impossibly rich United States, where even menial jobs can support

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families and whole communities that have been left behind. For people north of the border, "Al Otro Lado" sheds light on harsh choices that their neighbors to the south often face because of economic crisis.

As movingly chronicled in "Al Otro Lado," Natalia Almada's debut feature, the border is a place where one people's dreams collide with another people's politics, and the 200-year-old tradition of corrido music vibrantly chronicles it all. In fact, if you really want to understand what is happening on the U.S./Mexico border, listen to the corridos, troubadour-like ballads that have become the voice of people whose views are rarely heard in mainstream media.

ALIENATED

Directed By: Educational Video Center

Produced In: USA, 2006

Running Time: 29 minutes (8 minute Educational Version also available.)

Genre: Documentary

Language: English

Themes: Youth Produced, Immigration

Distributor: Educational Video Center

Synopsis:

Alienated gives voice to undocumented youth immigrants facing the challenges of life after high school with no options for legalized work or college. A determined young woman from St. Vincent commutes from Brooklyn to New Jersey to work as a nanny for $4 an hour, while another young woman from St. Lucia tells how she was detained in seven U.S. prisons between the ages of 17 and 20. Meanwhile, anti-immigrant groups rally around lobbying efforts that seek to impose ever harsher policies and to ‘protect our borders.’ Through interviews with legal counselors, youth service providers, and activists on both sides of the immigration debate, Alienated examines what it means to be young, able and ‘illegal’ in America.

AMU

Directed By: Shonali Bose

Produced In: India, 2005

Running Time: 102 minutes

Genre: Drama

Language: In English, Bengali, Hindi and Punjabi with English subtitles

Themes: Cultural Identity: Asian/Pacific Islander

Distributor: Emerging Pictures

Synopsis:

Amu begins with the everyday dilemmas of a young Indian-American, Kaju, returning to the “foreignness” of her Indian homeland. Like an approaching thunderstorm, the film gathers a potent political charge as Kaju begins to question her past and realizes how her own privileged life in America was born out of communal violence in India. After Prime Minister Gandhi was assassinated by Sikh bodyguards in 1984, carnage erupted in the streets of Delhi. More than four thousand Sikhs were killed in three days. In the film Kaju’s parents are among those affected by the violence. Writer-director Shonali Bose was a student in Delhi during those days. She worked in the relief camps set up after the massacre, writing down the stories of those who survived. Bose brings to the flashback scenes in Amu the intense impact of first-hand experience. Amu is powered by a sense of outrage still felt today. The film makes a strong case that this massacre was not spontaneous but planned, and depicts politicians and police who were involved but went unpunished. Kaju’s questions produce difficult answers that force her to face the truth of India’s history - and her own.

ANOTHER BROTHER

Produced By: Tami Gold

Produced In: USA, 1998

Running Time: 50 minutes

Genre: Documentary

Language: English

Themes: USA, Cultural Identity: African American, Drugs and Addiction, HIV/AIDS, Militarism

Distributor: Anderson Gold Films

Synopsis:

ANOTHER BROTHER is a moving biographical mosaic of one ordinary yet extraordinary man, Clarence Fitch. An African American veteran of the Vietnam War, Clarence was like many veterans in the hardships he endured – racism, poverty, substance abuse, and HIV/AIDS – yet uncommon in his ability to transform these experiences through a life of political activism. In telling Clarence's gripping personal story, the film provides a unique window onto the Vietnam War, racism in America, and a host of social problems which have ravaged America for the past three decades. The film is narrated chiefly by Clarence in an audio taped interview by William Short, a fellow Vietnam veteran, before Clarence’s death from AIDS in 1990.

AWAITING TOMORROW

Directed By: WITNESS with Association des Jeunes pour le Developpement Integre- Kalundu (AJEDI-Ka)

Produced In: USA, 2006

Running Time: 28 minutes

Genre: Documentary

Language: English

Themes: HIV/AIDS, Genocide/Ethnic Conflict, Children’s Rights

Distributor: WITNESS

Synopsis:

The silent storm of HIV/AIDS is ravaging communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where over 2.6 million people are living with HIV/AIDS. Some one hundred thousand people have died of AIDS and more than 700,000 children have lost one or both parents to this preventable disease that, if not tackled directly by government policy, has the potential of evolving into a raging pandemic. To date only 3% of those needing anti-retroviral treatment are receiving it.

"Awaiting Tomorrow" tells the story people living with HIV/AIDS in the war-torn Eastern region of the DRC and advocates for the provision of: free HIV/AIDS testing, medical care and medication, including home based care, nutritional and psychological support; outreach on testing and prevention particularly targeting youth; awareness raising and legislation to end discrimination against all affected people; and the building of infrastructure to make critical medical assistance accessible.

The Congolese government, supported by the international community, must comply with their international obligations to take all necessary measures to guarantee the rights of persons living with HIV/AIDS, including the right to health and the right to information on prevention, testing and treatment and the promises made through the Millenium Development Goals.

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BEHIND CLOSED EYES

Directed By: Duco Tellegen

Produced In: Holland, 2000

Running Time: 100 minutes

Genre: Documentary

Language: In various languages with English subtitles

Themes: Children’s Rights, Genocide/ Ethnic Conflicts, Militarism

Distributor: Dovana Films

Synopsis:

What happens when a child soldier is both a criminal and a victim of his country's war in Liberia? How does Eranda, a 7-year-old refugee from Kosovo, adjust to her life in a Macedonian refugee camp, in a temporary shelter in the Netherlands and then back in her war torn country in less then two years without bitterness? A young Rwandan girl becomes a mother before her eighteenth birthday. How does she learn to love her child and herself despite the violence that brought about the child's birth? "BEHIND CLOSED EYES" explores how four children of war learn to build a future, despite their past. These children develop compassion for themselves on their journey to survival. Their stories leave you at the edge of your seat and teach us the meaning of courage.

BEHIND THE LABELS: GARMENT WORKERS ON U.S. SAIPAN

Directed By: Tia Lessin; Co-Producer: Oxygen

Produced In: USA, 2001

Running Time: 45 minutes

Genre: Documentary

Language: English (some subtitling)

Themes: Labor

Distributor: WITNESS

Synopsis:

Lured by false promises and driven by desperation, thousands of Chinese and Filipina women pay high fees for jobs in garment factories on the Pacific island of Saipan- which despite being a U.S. territory is exempt from federal minimum wage and certain immigration laws. The clothing they sew, bearing the "Made in the USA" label, is shipped duty- and quota-free to the U.S. for sale of The Gap, J.Crew, Polo, and other retailers. Powerful hidden-camera footage, along with the garment workers' personal stories, offers a rare and unforgettable glimpse into indentured labor and the workings of the global sweatshop-where fourteen-hour shifts, payless paydays, and lock-downs are routine. Behind the Labels follows the issues from the factory floor ot the streets, where protesters worldwide wage an ongoing battle against corporate globalization. Narrated by Susan Sarandon.