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Film Festival Schedule
2008 Schedule
Wednesday April 9
7pm - John McDonogh Senior High
Right To Return: New Home Movies from the Lower Ninth Ward
6pm Reception, 7pm Screening
9pm - Mother-In-Law Lounge
Opening Night Party with Al "Carnival Time" Johnson
Thursday April 10
7pm - Canal Place
Taxi to the Dark Side
Shock Doctrine
9:30pm - Canal Place
Caramel
Friday April 11
7pm - Zeitgeist
Land and Water: Shorts Program
9pm - Zeitgeist
Arabs and Terrorism
Saturday April 12
12pm - Zeitgeist
Daughters of Gardeners
1pm - Zeitgeist
American Outrage
2pm – Zeitgeist
When Clouds Clear
4pm - Zeitgeist
Mississippi Chicken
6pm - Zeitgeist
Bilin My Love
8pm - Zeitgeist
Meeting Resistance
Sunday April 13
12pm - Zeitgeist
Our Struggle Is Your Struggle
A Panel Discussion on Human Rights in New Orleans and Around the World
2pm - Zeitgeist
Palestine and the Middle East: Shorts Program
4pm - Zeitgeist
Black Womyn: Conversations With Lesbians Of African Descent
7pm - Zeitgeist
Keep on Keepin' On: New Orleans Shorts Program curated by Courtney Egan
9:15pm - Zeitgeist
From the Mouthpiece on Back
Monday April 14
7pm - Craige Cultural Center
Straight Out Of New Orleans: Grassroots Video Screening and Discussion, Part One.
7pm - Prytania
Vows of Silence
9pm - Prytania
Inside the Circle
Tuesday April 15
5pm - SUNO
Straight Out Of New Orleans: Grassroots Video Screening and Discussion, Part Two.
7pm - Zeitgeist
Driving to Zigzigland
9pm - Zeitgeist
Borders and Empire: International Shorts Program, Part One
Wednesday April 16
7pm - Canal Place
War/Dance
9:15pm – Canal Place
Eréndira Ikikunari
Thursday April 17
7pm – Canal Place
Chicago 10
9pm - Zeitgeist
Borders and Empire: International Shorts Program, Part Two
Friday April 18
6pm - Zeitgeist
Intimidad
7pm - Prytania
Wade in the Water
8pm - Zeitgeist
Democracy in Dakar
10pm - Zeitgeist
Finding Our Folk
Saturday April 19
1pm - Zeitgeist
Against the Grain
2:30pm - Zeitgeist
Third Ward Texas / Sunlight and Babies
4pm - Zeitgeist
The Sugar Babies
6pm - Zeitgeist
Un Poquito De Tanta Verdad (A Little Bit of So Much Truth)
6pm - The Porch
The Fullness of Time /
Untitled Video on Lynn Stewart and Her Conviction, the Law, and Poetry
Free Screening.
8pm - Zeitgeist
Democracy in Dakar
10pm - Zeitgeist
Ya Heard Me
11:30pm - Zeitgeist
Ya Heard Me premiere party with performers from film.
Sunday April 20
12:30pm - Zeitgeist
Festival Workshop: NAFTA Gets Militarized: The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America
2pm - Zeitgeist
The Birthday
4pm - Zeitgeist
Traces of the Trade
Post-screening discussion with Director Katrina Browne
7pm - Zeitgeist
Festival Awards Ceremony
7:30pm - Zeitgeist
Special Benefit for Criminal Justice Organizing in New Orleans, and Legal Support for the Jena Six
T. Don Hutto: America's Family Prison /
Jena Six
9pm - Zeitgeist
The Recruiter
Wednesday April 9
7pm - John McDonogh Senior High
Right To Return: New Home Movies from the Lower Ninth Ward
6pm Reception, 7pm Screening
9pm - Mother-In-Law Lounge
Opening Night Party with Al "Carnival Time" Johnson
Thursday April 10
7pm - Canal Place
Taxi to the Dark Side
Shock Doctrine
9:30pm - Canal Place
Caramel
Friday April 11
7pm - Zeitgeist
Land and Water: Shorts Program
9pm - Zeitgeist
Arabs and Terrorism
Saturday April 12
12pm - Zeitgeist
Daughters of Gardeners
1pm - Zeitgeist
American Outrage
2pm – Zeitgeist
When Clouds Clear
4pm - Zeitgeist
Mississippi Chicken
6pm - Zeitgeist
Bilin My Love
8pm - Zeitgeist
Meeting Resistance
Sunday April 13
12pm - Zeitgeist
Our Struggle Is Your Struggle
A Panel Discussion on Human Rights in New Orleans and Around the World
2pm - Zeitgeist
Palestine and the Middle East: Shorts Program
4pm - Zeitgeist
Black Womyn: Conversations With Lesbians Of African Descent
7pm - Zeitgeist
Keep on Keepin' On: New Orleans Shorts Program curated by Courtney Egan
9:15pm - Zeitgeist
From the Mouthpiece on Back
Monday April 14
7pm - Craige Cultural Center
Straight Out Of New Orleans: Grassroots Video Screening and Discussion, Part One.
7pm - Prytania
Vows of Silence
9pm - Prytania
Inside the Circle
Tuesday April 15
5pm - SUNO
Straight Out Of New Orleans: Grassroots Video Screening and Discussion, Part Two.
7pm - Zeitgeist
Driving to Zigzigland
9pm - Zeitgeist
Borders and Empire: International Shorts Program, Part One
Wednesday April 16
7pm - Canal Place
War/Dance
9:15pm – Canal Place
Eréndira Ikikunari
Thursday April 17
7pm – Canal Place
Chicago 10
9pm - Zeitgeist
Borders and Empire: International Shorts Program, Part Two
Friday April 18
6pm - Zeitgeist
Intimidad
7pm - Prytania
Wade in the Water
8pm - Zeitgeist
Democracy in Dakar
10pm - Zeitgeist
Finding Our Folk
Saturday April 19
1pm - Zeitgeist
Against the Grain
2:30pm - Zeitgeist
Third Ward Texas / Sunlight and Babies
4pm - Zeitgeist
The Sugar Babies
6pm - Zeitgeist
Un Poquito De Tanta Verdad (A Little Bit of So Much Truth)
6pm - The Porch
The Fullness of Time /
Untitled Video on Lynn Stewart and Her Conviction, the Law, and Poetry
Free Screening.
8pm - Zeitgeist
Democracy in Dakar
10pm - Zeitgeist
Ya Heard Me
11:30pm - Zeitgeist
Ya Heard Me premiere party with performers from film.
Sunday April 20
12:30pm - Zeitgeist
Festival Workshop: NAFTA Gets Militarized: The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America
2pm - Zeitgeist
The Birthday
4pm - Zeitgeist
Traces of the Trade
Post-screening discussion with Director Katrina Browne
7pm - Zeitgeist
Festival Awards Ceremony
7:30pm - Zeitgeist
Special Benefit for Criminal Justice Organizing in New Orleans, and Legal Support for the Jena Six
T. Don Hutto: America's Family Prison /
Jena Six
9pm - Zeitgeist
The Recruiter
2008 New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival is coming together
Hi all,
It looks like this year will be the festival's best year yet. We are all so excited about what this year has to offer!
Twelve days, more than fifty films, at least twenty directors presenting their films, five world premieres, plus workshops, performances, parties, and more.
The Fifth Annual New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival
April 9 – 20, 2008
This year, we are proud to welcome Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme, who will be presenting his film Right To Return: New Home Movies From the Lower Ninth Ward on April 9 at John McDonogh High School. The screening begins at 7 pm, and will be preceded by a reception at 6 pm. We are also excited to host an afterparty for the screening at the Mother-In-Law Lounge, featuring Al “Carnival Time” Johnson.
The next night, Thursday, April 10, at 7 pm, we present the New Orleans premiere of Taxi To The Dark Side, the 2008 Academy Award-winner for best documentary feature.
Also on Thursday, at 9:30 pm, we invite you to Caramel, a new romantic comedy from Lebanon. The film is the most highly acclaimed film in Lebanon’s history, was selected for Director’s Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival, and was Lebanon's official submission to the 2008 Academy Awards for best foreign language film.
On this website you can find out all about the festival. We have full descriptions of all the films and programs, short video previews of festival films, schedule and venue information, and more. Also on this site, you can buy festival passes and membership. Festival passes get you free admission to all parties and films, including the opening night party ($20) and the bounce hip-hop concert on April 10 (also $20). Please support the festival, and buy passes and membership for yourself and friends. With your help, we will continue to be a resource for community and social justice in New Orleans.
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
Many people think that human rights means documentaries, but this year we have comedies, action films, science fiction, and more. In addition to Caramel, don’t miss Waiting for Zigzigland, a comedy about a Palestinian cab driver in Los Angeles; Eréndira Ikikunari, an action film about indigenous resistance to Spanish colonization; and the world premiere of The Fullness of Time, an experimental science fiction film from the director of Drylongso and the producers who brought Waiting For Godot to the Lower Ninth Ward.
This year’s festival is filled with music and performances. In addition to our opening night performances, we are hosting a concert featuring New Orleans best bounce music on Saturday, April 19 at 11:30 pm. And, throughout the festival, we have parties and performances – see our schedule for more, and check back for updates! We also have programmed some incredible musical films, including Ya Heard Me, a film about New Orleans bounce; From the Mouthpiece on Back, a film about To Be Continued Brass Band; Finding Our Folk, which features performances by Hot 8 Brass Band, among other musicians; War/Dance, a portrayal of breathtaking and inspiring music and dancing from Uganda; profiles of young breakdancers from Texas in Inside the Circle; and stunning hip-hop performances from Senegal in Democracy in Dakar.
This year we continue to showcase the best films from New Orleans and around the world. We have incredible filmmaking from almost every continent, exemplified by the film Arabs And Terrorism – a fresh new documentary exploring differing perspectives on this issue, filmed in 40 countries. We present strong artistic visions from Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East, including The Birthday, a film about sex changes in Iran; When The Clouds Clear, about a an Ecuadorian village’s resistance to a copper mine; In The Name of the Son, about a prisoner of war coming from Bosnia to the US; and Intimadad, an intimate portrait of a couple from rural Mexico. See an exclusive look at the Iraqi resistance in Meeting Resistance; experience a lyrical and beautifully poetic view of the economic collapse in Argentina in Maybe Buenos Aires; and experience The Truth From Palestine, a special series of new short films from Palestine, highlighting grassroots voices not generally heard in the US.
We always prioritize showcasing youth, and especially young people from New Orleans. This year, don’t miss new films from the New Orleans program, Students at the Center (SAC), directed by Kalamu Ya Salaam and Jim Randalls. Among the student-directed films this year, be sure to check out A Jazz Journey, and Moving On, both by students from SAC; and the world premiere screening of Wade in the Water, which was made in collaboration with New Orleans students in Central City. For other youth programming, catch Digital Resistance, made in collaboration with Palestinian youth from refugee camps, and In Solidarity, a film about a trip that six Black high school students from Baltimore took to Nicaragua.
Our festival celebrates the best of New Orleans filmmaking, bringing you the first chance to see local filmmaking at its best. In addition to the premieres of Wade in the Water and The Fullness of Time; we are proud to present the world premieres of Vows of Silence, New Orleans writer Jason Berry’s new film about corruption and sexual abuse in the Catholic church; Cut Off, Broderick Webb and Edward Holub’s new film about public housing in New Orleans; and the first New Orleans festival screening of Glory at Sea, a new fiction film from New Orleans filmmaker Benh Zeitlin.
We also bring some Hollywood to the festival this year. In addition to director Jonathan Demme, don’t miss Chicago 10, an exciting new film from Academy Award-nominated director Brett Morgen, featuring Jeffrey Wright, Roy Scheider, Nick Nolte, and Mark Ruffalo. And, don’t miss this year’s Academy Award-winner for best documentary feature, Taxi to the Dark Side, a stunning exploration of the dark side of the Bush administrations’ war on human rights; the Academy Award-nominated War/Dance, an uplifting and beautiful film about a dance competition in Uganda; and Shock Doctrine, a breathtaking film from writer Naomi Klein and Academy Award-nominated director Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men, Y Tu Mamá Tambien).
Our festival exists to support movements for social justice – not to just show problems, but to show solutions, to celebrate hope and resistance. April 20, see the New Orleans premiere of the most thorough, up-close perspective on the struggle of the Jena Six, from a journalist who was there long before the corporate media showed up – see Big Noise Tactical Media’s The Jena Six. And, check out a snapshot from New Orleans’ activist past in Rudy Mills’ Neo-Black Leaders and Politics. When the people of Oaxaca, México led an uprising and the corporate media demonized them, they seized the media. See the story in Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad (A Little Bit of so Much Truth). For an unforgettable story of struggle against all odds, see Bilin My Love, a story of one Palestinian village’s inspiring resistance to displacement and dispossession.
In addition to beautiful and inspiring films, incredible performances, and fabulous parties, we have a wide range of other special events, including workshops and discussions with filmmakers, activists, and human rights workers. Katrina Browne, director of the thought-provoking and powerful film about the legacy of racism and slavery, Traces of the Trade, hosts a discussion on the issues raised by her film. New Orleans grassroots and activist filmmakers talk about their films and social justice in New Orleans in Straight Out of New Orleans, a two-part series, Monday, April 14 at the Craige Cultural Center, and Tuesday, April 15 at Southern University of New Orleans. Each evening features different filmmakers. Come for both!
What do human rights internationally have to do with the issues we face in New Orleans? How can we build links with international struggles? What lessons can we learn from movements in other countries? How can the framework of international human rights support the struggle for justice in New Orleans? Hear discussions of these questions and much more from local and international experts at the festival workshop Our Struggle Is Your Struggle: A Discussion on Human Rights in New Orleans and Around the World on Sunday April 13.
On April 21-22, US President Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Harper, and Mexican President Calderón will gather in New Orleans for the North American Leaders’ Summit to discuss the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America – the military arm of NAFTA. How does this affect you, and what can you do about it? Find out at the special festival workshop, NAFTA Gets Militarized: The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America on Sunday April 20, at 12:30 pm.
In support of V to the Tenth, the tenth anniversary of The Vagina Monologues, we are highlighting programming by and about women throughout our festival, including the films Against The Grain, about artists facing state repression in Peru; Black Womyn: Conversations With Lesbians of African Descent, featuring powerful voices such as Def Poet Stacyann Chin and filmmaker Aishah Shahidah Simmons; Mississippi Chicken, about Latina poultry workers; and Tunnel Trade, Laila El-Haddad’s exploration of the smuggling tunnels under Gaza. In addition, we will offer free admission to our April 11 and 12 programming with ticket stubs from the V to the Tenth programming in the Superdome.
We look forward to seeing you at the festival.
Venues:
Canal Place Cinema
333 Canal St
Craige Cultural Center
1800 Newton St (Algiers)
John McDonogh High School
2426 Esplanade Ave
Mother-In-Law Lounge
1500 N. Claiborne Ave
The Porch
1943 Pauger St
Prytania Theatre
5339 Prytania St
Southern University of New Orleans
6801 Press Drive
Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center
1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd
Ticket Prices:
All programs and events are $8, with the following exceptions:
Wednesday April 9, Opening Night Film: $10
Wednesday April 9, Opening Night Party: $20
Sunday April 13, Human Rights Workshop: Free
Saturday April 19, Screening at the Porch: Free
Saturday April 19, Ya Heard Me Premiere concert and party: $20
Sunday April 20, NAFTA Gets Militarized workshop: Free
Sunday April 20, Award Ceremony: Free
April 11 and 12 festival programming free with pass from V10/Superlove.
New Orleans Film Society members receive discount to the films Taxi to the Dark Side, War/Dance, and Chicago 10.
Buy a festival pass and get free admission to all festival events, including parties and concert.
It looks like this year will be the festival's best year yet. We are all so excited about what this year has to offer!
Twelve days, more than fifty films, at least twenty directors presenting their films, five world premieres, plus workshops, performances, parties, and more.
The Fifth Annual New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival
April 9 – 20, 2008
This year, we are proud to welcome Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme, who will be presenting his film Right To Return: New Home Movies From the Lower Ninth Ward on April 9 at John McDonogh High School. The screening begins at 7 pm, and will be preceded by a reception at 6 pm. We are also excited to host an afterparty for the screening at the Mother-In-Law Lounge, featuring Al “Carnival Time” Johnson.
The next night, Thursday, April 10, at 7 pm, we present the New Orleans premiere of Taxi To The Dark Side, the 2008 Academy Award-winner for best documentary feature.
Also on Thursday, at 9:30 pm, we invite you to Caramel, a new romantic comedy from Lebanon. The film is the most highly acclaimed film in Lebanon’s history, was selected for Director’s Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival, and was Lebanon's official submission to the 2008 Academy Awards for best foreign language film.
On this website you can find out all about the festival. We have full descriptions of all the films and programs, short video previews of festival films, schedule and venue information, and more. Also on this site, you can buy festival passes and membership. Festival passes get you free admission to all parties and films, including the opening night party ($20) and the bounce hip-hop concert on April 10 (also $20). Please support the festival, and buy passes and membership for yourself and friends. With your help, we will continue to be a resource for community and social justice in New Orleans.
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
Many people think that human rights means documentaries, but this year we have comedies, action films, science fiction, and more. In addition to Caramel, don’t miss Waiting for Zigzigland, a comedy about a Palestinian cab driver in Los Angeles; Eréndira Ikikunari, an action film about indigenous resistance to Spanish colonization; and the world premiere of The Fullness of Time, an experimental science fiction film from the director of Drylongso and the producers who brought Waiting For Godot to the Lower Ninth Ward.
This year’s festival is filled with music and performances. In addition to our opening night performances, we are hosting a concert featuring New Orleans best bounce music on Saturday, April 19 at 11:30 pm. And, throughout the festival, we have parties and performances – see our schedule for more, and check back for updates! We also have programmed some incredible musical films, including Ya Heard Me, a film about New Orleans bounce; From the Mouthpiece on Back, a film about To Be Continued Brass Band; Finding Our Folk, which features performances by Hot 8 Brass Band, among other musicians; War/Dance, a portrayal of breathtaking and inspiring music and dancing from Uganda; profiles of young breakdancers from Texas in Inside the Circle; and stunning hip-hop performances from Senegal in Democracy in Dakar.
This year we continue to showcase the best films from New Orleans and around the world. We have incredible filmmaking from almost every continent, exemplified by the film Arabs And Terrorism – a fresh new documentary exploring differing perspectives on this issue, filmed in 40 countries. We present strong artistic visions from Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East, including The Birthday, a film about sex changes in Iran; When The Clouds Clear, about a an Ecuadorian village’s resistance to a copper mine; In The Name of the Son, about a prisoner of war coming from Bosnia to the US; and Intimadad, an intimate portrait of a couple from rural Mexico. See an exclusive look at the Iraqi resistance in Meeting Resistance; experience a lyrical and beautifully poetic view of the economic collapse in Argentina in Maybe Buenos Aires; and experience The Truth From Palestine, a special series of new short films from Palestine, highlighting grassroots voices not generally heard in the US.
We always prioritize showcasing youth, and especially young people from New Orleans. This year, don’t miss new films from the New Orleans program, Students at the Center (SAC), directed by Kalamu Ya Salaam and Jim Randalls. Among the student-directed films this year, be sure to check out A Jazz Journey, and Moving On, both by students from SAC; and the world premiere screening of Wade in the Water, which was made in collaboration with New Orleans students in Central City. For other youth programming, catch Digital Resistance, made in collaboration with Palestinian youth from refugee camps, and In Solidarity, a film about a trip that six Black high school students from Baltimore took to Nicaragua.
Our festival celebrates the best of New Orleans filmmaking, bringing you the first chance to see local filmmaking at its best. In addition to the premieres of Wade in the Water and The Fullness of Time; we are proud to present the world premieres of Vows of Silence, New Orleans writer Jason Berry’s new film about corruption and sexual abuse in the Catholic church; Cut Off, Broderick Webb and Edward Holub’s new film about public housing in New Orleans; and the first New Orleans festival screening of Glory at Sea, a new fiction film from New Orleans filmmaker Benh Zeitlin.
We also bring some Hollywood to the festival this year. In addition to director Jonathan Demme, don’t miss Chicago 10, an exciting new film from Academy Award-nominated director Brett Morgen, featuring Jeffrey Wright, Roy Scheider, Nick Nolte, and Mark Ruffalo. And, don’t miss this year’s Academy Award-winner for best documentary feature, Taxi to the Dark Side, a stunning exploration of the dark side of the Bush administrations’ war on human rights; the Academy Award-nominated War/Dance, an uplifting and beautiful film about a dance competition in Uganda; and Shock Doctrine, a breathtaking film from writer Naomi Klein and Academy Award-nominated director Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men, Y Tu Mamá Tambien).
Our festival exists to support movements for social justice – not to just show problems, but to show solutions, to celebrate hope and resistance. April 20, see the New Orleans premiere of the most thorough, up-close perspective on the struggle of the Jena Six, from a journalist who was there long before the corporate media showed up – see Big Noise Tactical Media’s The Jena Six. And, check out a snapshot from New Orleans’ activist past in Rudy Mills’ Neo-Black Leaders and Politics. When the people of Oaxaca, México led an uprising and the corporate media demonized them, they seized the media. See the story in Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad (A Little Bit of so Much Truth). For an unforgettable story of struggle against all odds, see Bilin My Love, a story of one Palestinian village’s inspiring resistance to displacement and dispossession.
In addition to beautiful and inspiring films, incredible performances, and fabulous parties, we have a wide range of other special events, including workshops and discussions with filmmakers, activists, and human rights workers. Katrina Browne, director of the thought-provoking and powerful film about the legacy of racism and slavery, Traces of the Trade, hosts a discussion on the issues raised by her film. New Orleans grassroots and activist filmmakers talk about their films and social justice in New Orleans in Straight Out of New Orleans, a two-part series, Monday, April 14 at the Craige Cultural Center, and Tuesday, April 15 at Southern University of New Orleans. Each evening features different filmmakers. Come for both!
What do human rights internationally have to do with the issues we face in New Orleans? How can we build links with international struggles? What lessons can we learn from movements in other countries? How can the framework of international human rights support the struggle for justice in New Orleans? Hear discussions of these questions and much more from local and international experts at the festival workshop Our Struggle Is Your Struggle: A Discussion on Human Rights in New Orleans and Around the World on Sunday April 13.
On April 21-22, US President Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Harper, and Mexican President Calderón will gather in New Orleans for the North American Leaders’ Summit to discuss the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America – the military arm of NAFTA. How does this affect you, and what can you do about it? Find out at the special festival workshop, NAFTA Gets Militarized: The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America on Sunday April 20, at 12:30 pm.
In support of V to the Tenth, the tenth anniversary of The Vagina Monologues, we are highlighting programming by and about women throughout our festival, including the films Against The Grain, about artists facing state repression in Peru; Black Womyn: Conversations With Lesbians of African Descent, featuring powerful voices such as Def Poet Stacyann Chin and filmmaker Aishah Shahidah Simmons; Mississippi Chicken, about Latina poultry workers; and Tunnel Trade, Laila El-Haddad’s exploration of the smuggling tunnels under Gaza. In addition, we will offer free admission to our April 11 and 12 programming with ticket stubs from the V to the Tenth programming in the Superdome.
We look forward to seeing you at the festival.
Venues:
Canal Place Cinema
333 Canal St
Craige Cultural Center
1800 Newton St (Algiers)
John McDonogh High School
2426 Esplanade Ave
Mother-In-Law Lounge
1500 N. Claiborne Ave
The Porch
1943 Pauger St
Prytania Theatre
5339 Prytania St
Southern University of New Orleans
6801 Press Drive
Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center
1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd
Ticket Prices:
All programs and events are $8, with the following exceptions:
Wednesday April 9, Opening Night Film: $10
Wednesday April 9, Opening Night Party: $20
Sunday April 13, Human Rights Workshop: Free
Saturday April 19, Screening at the Porch: Free
Saturday April 19, Ya Heard Me Premiere concert and party: $20
Sunday April 20, NAFTA Gets Militarized workshop: Free
Sunday April 20, Award Ceremony: Free
April 11 and 12 festival programming free with pass from V10/Superlove.
New Orleans Film Society members receive discount to the films Taxi to the Dark Side, War/Dance, and Chicago 10.
Buy a festival pass and get free admission to all festival events, including parties and concert.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Fest gets into high gear with more films and music
The 2008 New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival is getting ready to release its 2008 Film schedule. This year will be the biggest year yet with more New Orleans and international films than ever before. There are also going to be a number of music and dance performances as well as grassroots panels and Q & A with directors. Academy Award winning director, Jonathan Demme will intorduce his latest film, "Right to Return: New Home Movies from the Lower Ninth Ward" on April 9th. He is planning to hold a panel with residents from the lower 9th and be available for Q & A after the screening of his film. For more information, check www.nolahumanrights.org for latest schedule of films and event.
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