WE’RE PROUD TO PLAY A SUPPORTING ROLE.

The Academy extends congratulations to the United Nations Association Film Festival on the occasion of its 14th annual celebration of motion pictures.

www.oscars.org Founder and Executive Director Jasmina Bojic

In 2000, 110 million children in the world were not in school—two Honorary Committee thirds of them were girls. Are we leaving our teachers and our kids Ted Turner on the streets? Can we improve our life and economy without proper Chair education? The 14th annual UNAFF (United Nations Association Film Alec Baldwin Festival) has chosen the theme EDUCATION IS A HUMAN RIGHT to Peter Coyote reflect the myriad problems being encountered in worldwide efforts Lolita Davidovich to rethink the values of education and to seek awareness and solu- William Draper III tions through film. We believe that UNAFF, which was established in Danny Glover 1998 to honor the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Gale Anne Hurd Human Rights, offers a priceless opportunity for just that. Susan Sarandon In honor of this year’s theme, we would like to acknowledge the hard John Savage work and dedication of the teachers and students in our community Erika Szanto by providing them free admission to all screenings. Barbara Trent Zucchero The 14th annual UNAFF proudly presents 70 films dealing with topics from 70 countries. The festival also offers seven panel discussions throughout the week, where renowned experts will Advisory Board elucidate topics from education and human trafficking to freedom of press and social media. Juliette Feeney-Timsit Admission for all panel discussions is free and we urge you to take advantage of these great Chair opportunities and see how you can continue your involvement beyond the film screenings. It Bob Filice is through these panels and our annual programs “UNAFF and KIDS,” “UNAFF in SCHOOLS” and Mary Granholm “CAMERA AS WITNESS” that we broaden our audience and initiate a meaningful dialogue. Dianne Griffin Although all the screened films are of exceptional quality, we have singled out some of them for Ronny Hamed these awards: UNAFF Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary, UNAFF Grand Jury Award for Best Seth Horvitz Short Documentary, UNAFF/Stanford Video Award for Cinematography, UNAFF/Stanford Video Amanda Howell Award for Editing and UNAFF Youth Vision Award. Roland Hsu Charles Junkerman UNAFF received the “Community Treasure Award” from Stanford University President Hennessy Cathy Keys in 2007 and for the last eight years, the Mayor of Palo Alto has proclaimed the festival days as Mary Jane Marcus UNAFF Week, consistently recognizing the significance UNAFF has for the community. Misha Milojkovic Encouraged by the overwhelmingly positive response from our audience and the media, we Olga Mullen continue UNAFF screenings year round with our Traveling Film Festival, which takes place in Brenda O’Sullivan numerous locations in the US and around the world. Amado Padilla John Pearson We hope that the variety of film programs and other related events during UNAFF 2011 will Relja Penezic present you with a truly exciting and memorable experience. We thank you all, and with your Nancy Raber support we hope to continue UNAFF in 2012. Angel Rocha Warmest regards, Laarni von Ruden Chris Scheerder Duarte Silva Suzan Miller Jasmina Bojic Ali Williams Founder and Executive Director UNAFF & UNAFF Traveling Film Festival

Opening & Closing Nights, UNAFF Headquarters 2 Films A-Z 3–10 Schedule 12–13 Sponsors 14–15 Print Sources 16-17 Special Thanks 18 Ticket Prices 20 Maps inside back cover sponsored by FACT and JUNNOON music by international recording artist, OPENING NIGHT Mira Veda FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21 6:45 PM Opening words by Palo Alto Sid Espinosa, Mayor of Palo Alto Aquarius Theatre 7:00 PM 430 Emerson Street THE THING THAT HAPPENED (Uganda/USA)

7:40 PM PINK SARIS (India)

9:30 PM ONCE UPON A ROOFTOP (China)

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30 8:00 PM Awards Ceremony Stanford University Cubberley Auditorium 8:30 PM Closing Night Party School of Education 485 Lasuen Mall

2 ABUELAS !GRANDMOTHERS" AMERICAN TEACHER DIR: Afarin Eghbal PROD: Kasia Malipan DIR: Vanessa Roth, Brian McGinn PROD: Nínive Calegari, Dave Eggers, Vanessa Roth In a small apartment in Buenos Aires, an old woman eagerly awaits the birth of her grand- American Teacher narrated by Matt Damon child and all the joys of becoming a grandmother. chronicles the stories of four teachers—Erik Ben However, horri"c circumstances force her to wait ner, Jonathan Dearman, Jamie Fidler, and Rhena over thirty years. The "lm explores the traumatic Jasey—who live and work in disparate urban and rami"cations of General Videla’s military dictator- rural areas of the country. The "lm shows us the ship in Argentina from 1976–1983 whereby an experience of these four young teachers as they estimated 30,000 men, women and children recognize the importance of what they do, and “disappeared.” (Argentina/UK, 9 min) how much they love what they do, but ask: can I a#ord to continue to teach? (USA, 81 min)

MON OCT 24 7:30PM PA-Aquarius TUE OCT 25 4:15PM SU-Encina Hall

ATOMIC ALERT ATOMIC MOM BECAUSE WE WERE BEAUTIFUL DIR: Thomas Johnson PROD: Play Film DIR/PROD: M.T. Silvia DIR/PROD: Frank van Osch

In the face of the international expansion of civil As the only female scientist present during During World War II “comfort women” were and military nuclear energy, Atomic Alert gives a atomic detonations in the Nevada desert, Pauline forced to carry out sexual activities in military thorough understanding of the strategic issues Silvia, undergoes a crisis of conscience. After a brothels, encampments and Japanese barracks. linked to nuclear energy and its risks on an inter- long silence and prompted by her daughter "lm- A number of these women tell their story despite national level, including public health, waste maker she "nally reveals grim secrets of working the taboo that is still attached to this subject. We management, environmental and political issues. in the US atomic testing program. In our present see intimate photo sessions and sometimes pain- (France/Japan/Pakistan/Russia/US, 87 min) moment of Wikileaks, Pauline is a similar whistle- ful conversations about the systematic rape, the blower, having been cowed by the silencing ma- humiliation, and the fear and how these experi- chine of the US military for decades. (Japan/USA, ences in$uenced their lives. Film is full of shame, 80 min) sorrow and reluc tantly told life stories. (Indone- sia/Netherlands, 61 min)

SUN OCT 30 2:15PM SU-Cubberley Aud SUN OCT 30 4:00PM SU-Cubberley Aud WED OCT 26 5:30PM SF-Balboa

BETWEEN TWO WORLDS BIG SISTER PUNAM A BITTER TASTE OF FREEDOM DIR/PROD: Alan Snitow, Deborah Kaufman DIR/PROD: Lucian Muntean, Natasa Muntean DIR/PROD: Marina Goldovskaya

An incident at the San Francisco Jewish Film Punam’s mother died when she was very young In her fearless quest to uncover the wrongdoings Festival rips the local Jewish community apart and her father works from sunrise to sundown in of the Russian state, Anna Politkovskaya inspired with charges of anti-Semitism and self-hatred, a rice factory, and so during the days she heads awe in some and fear in countless others. An in- McCarthyism and witch-hunts. Who is entitled the family, acting as caregiver and homemaker. vestigative journalist for Moscow’s liberal Novaya to speak for a polarized Jewish community? For Punam, hope is symbolized by the local "ve- Gazeta, she was often the only spokesperson for What happens when Jews are torn between their grade primary school. Punam’s friends do not victims of the Russian government. At age forty- support for the state of Israel and their anger at have enough money as well to a#ord the school eight she was assassinated for simply doing her Israel’s violation of basic American Jewish ideals? fee. Instead of studying, these children must job. Shot over a period of twenty years, the "lm (Israel/Palestine/USA, 70 min) work under di%cult conditions at a stone quarry shows the incredible story of a woman who gave or brick-making factory to help their families get her life for her convictions. (Russia/Sweden/USA, by. (Nepal/Serbia, 51 min) 88 min)

SAT OCT 22 4:30PM PA-Aquarius SUN OCT 23 8:30PM PA-Aquarius SUN OCT 30 5:40PM SU-Cubberley Aud 3 BURMA SOLDIER BUTTERFLIES AND BULLDOZERS CARAVAN OF THE BOOKS#KENYA’S DIR: Nic Dunlop, Annie Sundberg, Ricki Stern DIR/PROD: Ann Dunsky, Steve Dunsky MOBILE CAMEL LIBRARY PROD: Julie leBrocquy, Annie Sundberg DIR/PROD: Herbert Ostwald San Bruno Mountain is the largest intact frag- Myo Myint Cho joined the Burmese Army at the ment of wild San Francisco. For "fty years, many A library on four legs—the world’s only exist- age of seventeen for to "nd security, respect people have fought to protect the mountain and ing camel library is located in Northern Kenya. and gainful employment. Before losing a limb its rare butter$ies. The "ght resulted in a signi"- As they pass antelopes and gira#es, the heavily to a land mine, he supported the brutal military cant change to the federal policy on endangered loaded caravan of camels are routinely carrying regime that had run the country for more than species, and in the process, turned allies into en- books through the rough savannah. Under the forty-"ve years. After his injury, he began an emies. Told with humor and insight from those shade of acacia trees, the children excitedly turn awakening that led him to join the pro-democracy involved with the battles, this is a tale of right the pages of schoolbooks, novels and comics. movement. (Burma/Ireland/Thailand/USA, versus right. (USA, 62 min) (Kenya, 50 min) 70 min)

SAT OCT 22 9:50PM PA-Aquarius WED OCT 26 9:20PM SF-Balboa SUN OCT 23 11:20AM PA-Aquarius

CHILL OUT CHOCTAW CODE TALKERS CINEMA KOMUNISTO DIR: Olivera Milos Todorovic DIR: Valerie Red-Horse DIR: Mila Turajlic PROD: Miodrag Milosevic PROD: Valerie Red-Horse, Gale Anne Hurd PROD: Mila Turajlic, Dragan Pesikan

Tracing the thoughts of three seventeen year In 1918, not yet citizens of the United States, Cinema Komunisto takes us on a journey through old girls and their authentic environment, the Choctaw members of the American Expedi- the crumbling remains of President Tito’s "lm "lm presents the adolescent growing up in a tionary Forces were asked by the government industry exploring the rise and fall of the cin- society that promotes aggression, alienation, to use their native language as a powerful ematic illusion called Yugoslavia. Stars such as profanity, hopelessness and social autism. communication tool against the German Forces Richard Burton, So"a Loren and Orson Welles Adopting as its title the term Chill Out, the "lm in World War I. This was a precedent for code- add a touch of glamour to the national e#ort, embodies the prevailing attitude of the new talking as an e#ective military weapon estab- appearing in productions "nanced by the state. generation bred on a mix of Grand Production lishing the Choctaw American Indian soldiers as (Serbia, 101 min) and MTV.(Serbia, 28 min) America’s original Code Talkers. (USA, 57 min)

SUN OCT 23 3:45PM PA-Aquarius SAT OCT 29 2:45PM SU-Cantor SUN OCT 23 4:15PM PA-Aquarius

DREAMING NICARAGUA DUBAI: A CITY OF DREAMS EVERY WAR HAS TWO LOSERS DIR: Marcelo Bukin DIR/PROD: Robert Tutak DIR/PROD: Haydn Reiss PROD: Marcelo Bukin, Amy Lo In just six years, Dubai has delivered the tallest Every War Has Two Losers is based on the journals Dreaming Nicaragua is a sensitive portrayal of building in the world, the most expensive hotel of William Sta#ord, a conscientious objector in four children living in extreme poverty in Nicara- in the world, the biggest man-made island, the World War II and National Book Award winner. gua. A traveling art teacher provides a safe are- biggest shopping mall, the biggest airport and Despite being told that war is inevitable, Sta#ord na for our four unlikely protagonists to express the longest fully automated metro. However, disagreed. He saw war as a choice—a human their inner-most thoughts. When painting, the hidden away from the tourists, underneath the choice—and only one of the ways nations can children momentarily escape the stresses of their huge skyscrapers and luxurious hotels, lies the respond to con$ict. Using Sta#ord’s eloquent reality into a world of dreams and ideas, a stark reality no one wants to acknowledge. Men who poetry and prose, the "lm invites the viewer contrast to their lives outside: a vicious cycle of work twelve to sixteen hour shifts in often over to re$ect on their own ideas regarding war and hunger, child labor and violence. (Nicaragua/ 100 degree temperatures, make less than a how individual witness can contribute to a more Spain/USA, 60 min) dollar a day. (UAE, 52 min) peaceful world. (USA, 30 min)

SUN OCT 23 12:15PM PA-Aquarius SAT OCT 22 7:15PM PA-Aquarius SAT OCT 22 1:50PM PA-Aquarius 4 FACING FORWARD FATAL PROMISES FORDSON: FAITH, FASTING AND FOOTBALL DIR/PROD: Laura Paglin DIR: Kat Rohrer DIR: Rashid Ghazi PROD: Anneliese Rohrer, Tom Greenman PROD: Ash-har Quraishi, Basma Babar-Quraishi Charismatic but troubled Tyree "ghts the odds of academic failure at a strict new inner city school. How can we tolerate slavery in the 21st century? Fordson follows a high school football team from As teachers struggle to help this 7th grader Eight years after the UN established the Palermo Dearborn, Michigan as it prepares for its rivalry succeed, life outside the classroom door will Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Tra!ck- game during the last ten days of the Muslim holy soon put everyone to the test. (USA, 67 min) ing in Persons, the "lm o#ers a spotlight of the month of Ramadan. Fordson, a public school, rhetoric vs the reality of today’s legislative e#orts boasts a 98% Arab-American population. The in combating all human tra%cking. Interviews "lm unearths the story of a community desper- include: Gloria Steinem, Emma Thompson, Ken ately holding onto its Islamic faith while strug- Franzblau current head of New York State O%ce gling to gain acceptance in post 9/11 America. on Human Tra%cking. (Austria/Moldova/Russia/ (USA, 99 min) Ukraine/USA, 60 min)

TUE OCT 25 5:00PM EPA-Eastside MON OCT 24 9:15PM PA-Aquarius SAT OCT 29 9:40PM SU-Annenberg Aud

FORERUNNERS GRACE HAPPY DIR: Simon Wood DIR: Meagan Kelly DIR: Roko Belic PROD: Eiji Han Shimizu PROD: Rouven Steinfeld, Florian Ho#man What does it mean to be black and middle class Does money make you happy? Kids and family? in South Africa today? At the frontier of unprec- Thirteen-year-old Mary-Grace Rapatan has lived Your work? Do you live in a world that values edented social change, Miranda, Mpumi, Mar- on a garbage dump in the Philippines her entire and promotes happiness and wellbeing? Are we tin and Karabo are part of the "rst generation life, picking through mountains of trash to help in the midst of a happiness revolution? Taking of black South Africans to rise from poverty and feed her family. She is trapped in a cycle of us from the bayous of Louisiana to the deserts join the country’s “middle class.” They delicately poverty, but she is determined to give herself of Namibia, from the beaches of Brazil to the balance the traditional views of their childhood a better future by getting an education. She villages of Okinawa, Happy explores the secrets with the western consumerism that rules their scavenges on weekends to pay for school, but a behind our most valued emotion. (Bhutan/Brazil/ professional lives, selecting and discarding ele- family tragedy soon takes hold. The girl is left a Denmark/India/Japan/Namibia/USA, 75 min) ments from each world to forge a new legacy for choice: quit school or starve. (Philippines, 23 min) their descendants (South Africa/UK, 52 min)

WED OCT 26 8:10PM SF-Balboa FRI OCT 28 4:30PM SU-Encina Hall MON OCT 24 5:30PM PA#AOL Patch

THE HEALER HOW DO YOU TELL SOMEBODY THAT HOW TO START A REVOLUTION DIR: Consuelo Alba PROD: John Speyer YOU’RE HIV+? DIR: Ruaridh Arrow PROD: Richard Shaw DIR/PROD: Hima B. Don Sergio Castro has served the poor in Quiet, unassuming, softly spoken and barely Chiapas, Mexico for almost "fty years. The "lm How Do You Tell Somebody That You’re HIV+? known to the wider world, 83-year-old professor follows the steps of this maverick humanitarian follows a day in the life of Haneefa, a young Gene Sharp has written the standard textbook who treats patients seven days a week for free, African American woman from New Jersey, as for leaders around the globe. Banned in many while building schools and water projects in she struggles to disclose her HIV+ status to the countries, his work has in$uenced a generation indigenous communities. But times are more father of her daughter. As Haneefa travels to of revolutionary leaders who yearn for democrat- trying than ever, and Don Sergio operates on re"ll her AIDS medication, she re$ects on how ic freedom in Asia, throughout Eastern Europe the edge of an economic precipice. Can he her quality of life is sustained through Medicaid, and in the Middle East. (China/Egypt/Georgia/ continue to serve the people who depend on a free healthcare program for low-income indi- Iran/Korea/Serbia/Syria/UK/Ukraine/USA/Vene- his good works? (Mexico, 30 min) viduals. (USA, 14 min) zuela, 87 min)

SAT OCT 29 4:00PM SU-Cantor WED OCT 26 8:00PM SU-Medical School FRI OCT 28 6:00PM SU-Annenberg Aud 5 IRAN: A CINEMATOGRAPHIC REVOLUTION JEANS AND MARTÒ KENYA MAASAI: THE RACE TO DIR/PROD: Nader Tamil Homayoun DIR: Clio Sozzani, Claudia Palazzi PRESERVE THE PAST PROD: Federico Schiavi DIR: UN News and Media Division Today Iranian cinema is one of the most highly PROD: Andi Gitow regarded national cinemas in the world, regularly From the day Roba was born, his path was a winning festival awards and critical acclaim for its matter of tradition. However, his determination Their centuries old culture is at risk of disappear- "lms. The documentary chronicles how Iranian to create his own path will lead him toward very ing. They are the Maasai in Kenya. Now two of "lms re$ected contemporaneous society and surprising destinations: an escape from an their own are in a race against time to preserve often presaged social change. It shows how arranged marriage, the hatred within a family, their heritage. We join them on their journey deep mainstream commercial cinema served as a pro- a terrible drought in the Karrayu lands, the inside this fascinating world. (Kenya, 15 min) paganda tool, recounts the sporadic e#orts of loneliness of city life, an unexpected journey to some "lmmakers to reveal grimmer social real- Italy, the death of his brother killed in an ethnic ties, and the struggles against censorship and con$ict, and the coronation of the big dream–– traditional cinematic formulas. (Iran, 98 min) achieving a degree. (Ethiopia/Italy, 52 min)

SUN OCT 23 6:30PM PA-Aquarius SAT OCT 29 8:00PM SU-Annenberg Aud THU OCT 27 5:00PM SU-Cantor

LA ISLA#ARCHIVES OF A TRAGEDY THE LIGHT BULB CONSPIRACY LUNCH DIR: Uli Stelzner DIR: Cosima Dannoritzer DIR: Avis Richards, Israel Bonequi PROD: Uli Stelzner, Elke Benz, Zoran Solomun PROD: Joan Ubeda, Patrice Burrat PROD: Avis Richards

At the end of the 20th century in Guatemala the Once upon a time products were made to last. As nation-wide funding for school cafeterias army and police killed and abducted hundreds Then, in the 1920s, a group of businessmen rapidly decreases and high-calorie, low-nutri- of thousands of people, but the unprecedented were struck by an insight that “a product that ent meals have become order of the day, our genocide in Central America’s modern history refuses to wear out is a tragedy of business.” nation’s children are being a&icted by a slew went unpunished. However, in July 2005 a huge Thus Planned Obsolescence was born, and of diet-based diseases from high blood pres- explosion in the Guatemalan capital led to the shortly after, the "rst worldwide cartel was set sure and cholesterol to diabetes and obesity. discovery of the historic archive of Guatemala’s up to reduce the life span of the incandescent The documentary explores viable alternatives to national police. (Germany/Guatemala, 85 min) light bulb, a symbol for innovation and bright the hamburger hegemony, e#orts to put locally new ideas. (France/Germany/Ghana/Spain/USA, grown and make diet and nutrition a core part of 75 min) every school’s educational model. (USA, 27 min)

SUN OCT 30 12:20PM SU-Cubberley SAT OCT 29 3:40PM SU-Annenberg Aud SAT OCT 29 12:00PM SU-Cantor

MAKING NOISE IN SILENCE A MAO E A LUVA#THE STORY MERCY BEYOND BORDERS DIR/PROD: Mina T. Son OF A BOOK TRAFFICKER DIR/PROD: Christopher Jenkins DIR: Roberto Orazi PROD: Riccardo Neri Born and raised in South Korea, Jeongin Mun South Sudan has recently become the world’s and Min Wook Cho have strong ties to their The "lm takes place in one of the poorest and newest country. It’s an unforgiving place where Korean heritage and learned Korean as their "rst most needy areas in the city of Recife, the Pina people struggle to survive in some of the harsh- language. However, what separates Jeongin and favela in Northeast Brazil. It is a story of 35 year- est conditions imaginable. The long war with Min Wook from most children of immigrant fami- old Ricardo Gomes Ferraz, better known as Kcal, the north has taken a brutal toll, with over 2 mil- lies is that they are also deaf. When their families a poet and musician, who has turned his house, lion dead. Below the new border some 96 ethnic moved to the United States, their deafness auto- a lake dwelling suspended over the water, into a groups now face an uncertain future. Many are matically put them into an entirely separate cul- library for the children of his community. (Brazil/ su#ering, but it’s the women and girls who have tural group with its own language, customs, and Italy, 66 min) it the worst. Many are raped and most are rou- history. (South Korea/USA, 19 min) tinely traded for cattle and forced to serve their owners. (Sudan, 20 min)

WED OCT 26 5:15PM SU-Medical Center SUN OCT 23 9:45PM PA-Aquarius FRI OCT 28 8:00PM SU-Annenberg Aud 6 MISTURA: THE POWER OF FOOD ONCE UPON A ROOFTOP ORIGINAL MINDS DIR/PROD: Patricia Perez DIR/PROD: Sybil Wendler DIR/PROD: Tom Weidlinger

In Peru, cooking and eating go beyond the kitch- This is a story about the families and individuals In a one-size-"ts-all educational system, kids en. The nation’s passion for food transcends pots who live on the rooftops of mid-rises in Hong with learning disabilities su#er from lack of self- and pans. Peru "nds in its cuisine its missing in- Kong. Hidden from below, these homes are con- esteem. They become alienated and drop out. gredient: a way to celebrate being Peruvian. A structed illegally and haphazardly. The inhabi- But the protagonists of Original Minds buck the way to love, show respect and be proud. Mistura, tants have no rights in terms of ownership or trend. They work intensively with the "lmmaker the gastronomic fair that happens in Lima every tenancy and yet are allowed to have water, gas, to tell their own stories. Their narratives reveal September, is the best example. A place where electricity and even postal addresses by the the unique approach to learning that each must cooks and patrons passionately teach us not government. Clinging onto this no-man’s land, discern and claim as his or her own if they are to only about food but most importantly about life. the rooftop residents show how they inventively succeed in the world. (USA, 57 min) (Peru, 38 min) carve out homes literally from the air. (China, 29 min)

SAT OCT 29 11:15AM SU-Cantor FRI OCT 21 9:30PM PA-Aquarius TUE OCT 25 2:45PM PA High School

OUR SCHOOL OVERNIGHT STAY PARADISE HOTEL DIR: Mona Nicoara, Miruna Coca-Cozma DIR/PROD: Daniela Sherer DIR: Sophia Tzavella PROD: Martichka Bozhilova PROD: Mona Nicoara, Miruna Coca-Cozma, Julie Goldman Do you think people are naturally good or bad? The young Demir dreams of a wedding, but his It is the meditation on this question that inspired Roma tower block at the outskirts of a provincial Three Roma (“Gypsy”) children from a small this hand-drawn and painted, animated docu- town in Bulgaria is no place for romance. Twenty- Transylvanian town participate in a project to mentary "lm. The story is a memory of an "ve years ago it had all it needed to be a socialist desegregate the local school, struggling against 83-year-old woman recalling a particular night in heaven from parquet $oors, an intercom, coveted indi#erence, tradition and bigotry with humor, 1941 in Krakow, Poland, when she was 17 years hot water, and street lamps. But over the years optimism and sass. Our School is a captivating, old. It was on this night, amidst the terrible days the block gradually changed. The parquet disap- infuriating, yet often funny story about hope of the Holocaust and World War II, that she peared. The water stopped. The lights went o#. and race. (Romania, 94 min) experienced interactions with strangers that But each of the 1,500 inhabitants has a plan for manifested both the worst and best in people. how to get back the dream of paradise lost. (Poland/USA, 8 min) (Bulgaria, 54 min)

SAT OCT 22 12:00PM PA-Aquarius MON OCT 24 5:15PM PA#AOL Patch WED OCT 26 6:50PM SF-Balboa

PINK SARIS PLAY AGAIN THE POWER OF ART: WOMEN’S VOICES DIR: Kim Longinotto PROD: Amber Latif, DIR: Tonje Hessen Schei PROD: Meg Merrill IN AFRICA Girjashanker Vohra DIR/PROD: Claudine Pommier One generation from now most people in the Sampat was married as a young girl into a family US will have spent more time in the virtual world Culture is no longer a static body of knowledge, that made her work hard and beat her often. But than in nature. New media technologies have values, practices and expressions shared and unusually, she fought back, leaving her in-laws improved our lives in countless ways. Information passed on by a community. It is a dynamic real- and becoming famous as a champion for belea- now appears with a click. Overseas friends are ity. The "lm explores how contemporary African guered women throughout Uttar Pradesh, many part of our daily lives. But what are we missing women who choose to be professional artists of who "nd their way to her doorstep. We watch when we are behind screens? And how will this claim their position, and deal with the stereo- Sampat launch herself into the center of family impact our children, our society, and eventually, types associated with being an African and a dramas, witnessed by spectators, convinced her our planet? (Norway/USA, 52 min) woman. (Algeria/Benin/Burkina Faso/Egypt/Mali/ mediation is the best path for these vulnerable Morocco/Nigeria/Senegal/South Africa, 52 min) girls. (India, 96 min)

FRI OCT 21 7:40PM PA-Aquarius TUE OCT 25 7:00PM EPA-B&G Club THU OCT 27 5:30PM SU-Cantor 7 THE POWER OF TWO PRICELE$$ PROBLEM KIDZ DIR: Marc Smolowitz DIR/PROD: Steve Cowan DIR/PROD: Jeremiah Brito, Kadeem Cummings, PROD: Marc Smolowitz, Andrew Byrnes Tyrone Davis, Elizabeth Fohsta-Lynch, Devin The "lm is focusing on the real consequences Jordan, Katia Skinner Inspired by their 2007 memoir, "lm o#ers an of an out-of-control electoral system in the US intimate portrayal of the bond between half- that can obligate congressional leaders to giant Students compose rap music and create a video Japanese twin sisters Anabel Stenzel and Isabel industries that bankroll their election campaigns. to encourage teenagers to get good grades and Stenzel Byrnes, their battle with the fatal genetic The "lmmakers follow a river of money through act more scholarly. (USA, 2 min) disease cystic "brosis and miraculous survival two national policies: energy and agriculture. In through double lung transplants. Defying all addition to time spent with family farmers and odds, Ana and Isa have emerged as authors, an unusual group of Iraq War veterans, the "lm- athletes and global advocates for organ dona- makers visit seasoned lawmakers, lobbyists, tion. (USA, 94 min) clean energy entrepreneurs and a classroom full of savvy third graders. (USA, 26 min)

WED OCT 26 8:30PM SU-Medical School SAT OCT 29 3:00PM SU-Annenberg Aud TUE OCT 25 9:00PM EPA-B&G Club

PROSECUTOR RACHEL RAISING YUSRIYA DIR: Barry Stevens PROD: Julia Bennett, Lea DIR: Simone Bitton DIR: Alissa Shapiro PROD: James Blue Marin, Peter Raymont, Silva Basmajian PROD: Thierry Lenouve, Arte France Cinema Thirteen-year-old Yusriya began school four A fascinating story with extraordinary access This controversial, fascinating and deeply mov- years ago when Abu Teeg opened a single class- follows the Chief Prosecutor through the "rst ing investigatory documentary examines the room in her village. Her parents are uneducated, trials of the newly-formed International Criminal death of peace activist and International Solidar- and her older brothers have some schooling. Court. Luis Moreno-Ocampo investigates and ity Movement (ISM) member Rachel Corrie, who Yusriya’s older sisters were not allowed to attend prosecutes some of the world’s worst criminals was crushed by an Israeli army bulldozer in the due to the distance. With community mobiliza- for some of the world’s worst crimes. He’s a hero Gaza Strip in 2003. A few weeks after her little- tion and strong support from the ministry, to genocide survivors, but has bitter enemies on reported death, an inquiry by Israeli military UNICEF and other partners address the needs of both the Right and the Left. (Canada/Chad/ police concluded that Corrie died in an accident. the village and provide it with the sanitation Congo/Netherlands/Sudan/Uganda/USA, (Belgium/France/Israel/Palestine/US, 100 min) facilities, curricula and motivated teachers. 95 min) (Egypt, 23 min)

FRI OCT 28 9:40PM SU-Annenberg Aud SAT OCT 22 2:40PM PA-Aquarius TUE OCT 25 4:00PM EPA-Eastside

RAMANA’S GARDEN RESTORING THE LIGHT RIVER OF RENEWAL DIR: Charles Annenberg Weingarten DIR/PROD: Carol Liu DIR: Carlos Bolado PROD: Jack Kohler, Stephen PROD: Tom Pollak Most, Steve Michelson This is a story about the spirit of resilience and India is a land of startling contrasts and inequal- hope of several rural families in China including: The "lm reveals how di#erent dominant groups ity. At Ramana’s Garden, Dr. Dwabha is working a young woman who, despite a debilitating bone over the generations have extracted resources to give a future to children who would otherwise infection, manages to pursue her dream to attend from Northern California’s and Oregon’s Klamath be without one. (India, 11 min) university and become an artist; her grandmother Basin with disastrous consequences, including who still toils in the "eld even though she has lost the collapse of wild salmon populations. It exam- her vision to cataracts; a young boy who wants to ines the collision between sustainability and the become a truck driver and maintains optimism in exploitation. The outcome may be the largest spite of his blindness; and a doctor who gives up dam removal project in history and the restora- his home in order to run a mobile clinic for the tion of a once vital river. (USA, 55 min) underserved. (China, 55 min)

SUN OCT 23 11:00AM PA-Aquarius WED OCT 26 5:50PM SU-Medical School SAT OCT 29 5:40PM SU-Annenberg Aud 8 SETTING THE STAGE SHANTY TOWN CINDERELLAS SHATTERING THE MYTH OF AGING: SENIOR DIR/PROD: Melissa Young, Mark Dworkin DIR: Benitha Vlok PROD: Grant Cummings GAMES CELEBRATE HEALTHY LIFESTYLES, COMPETITION AND COMMUNITY In Setting the Stage, a dedicated public school It’s prom night for the teenagers in one of Cape DIR: Dorothy Fadiman teacher begins with the premise that every child Town’s poorest and roughest townships. Parents PROD: Dorothy Fadiman, Keith Parish is gifted, and then demonstrates how to stimu- overcome real hardship and poverty to see their late and nourish those gifts through teaching kids through to the end of their education—one This is the story of a 74-year-old man, Ron Shakespeare in a very diverse elementary school of the few routes out of township life. Chilton, whose life was transformed by classroom. Setting the Stage is a timely antidote (South Africa, 10 min) becoming a Senior Games Athlete. In his early to "lms that vilify public school teachers. 60s, instead of slowing down, Ron became more (USA, 28 min) active. Since making that decision, he has won more than 200 Senior Games medals. (USA, 8 min)

TUE OCT 25 2:00PM PA High School TUE OCT 25 4:40PM EPA-Eastside MON OCT 24 7:00PM PA-Aquarius

A SIMPLE QUESTION%THE STORY OF STRAW TALIBE#THE LEAST FAVORED THERE’S NO SOUND IN MY HEAD DIR/PROD: David Donnen"eld, Kevin White CHILDREN OF SENEGAL DIR: Robert Arnold PROD: Mark Applebaum DIR/PROD: Daniela Kon With no practical knowledge of environmental Composer Mark Applebaum’s cryptic, painfully restoration, Laurette Rogers and her fourth grade The important tradition of Islamic education in fastidious, wildly elaborate, and unreasonably class undertook its rescue by restoring creek side Senegal has been left to develop in disturbingly behemoth pictographic score “The Metaphysics habitat on the property of local ranchers. Six- perverted ways. Fifty thousand Koranic students of Notation” consists of seventy linear feet of teen years later, the original class project is now called Talibes, young boys between four and "f- highly detailed, hand-drawn glyphs, two hang- a beloved, award-winning regional program that teen years old, are subjected to exploitation in ing mobiles, and absolutely no written or verbal has involved thousands of kids, classroom teach- conditions akin to slavery. They are forced to beg instructions. Through interviews with composers ers, numerous landowners, scientists, and gov- on the streets by their Koranic schoolteachers and musicologists, performance footage, and ernment agencies in a community-based e#ort and su#er severe physical abuse and neglect. conversations with Applebaum as he draws in his that to date has restored almost twenty miles of (Senegal, 59 min) studio, the "lm poses questions about the bor- streamside habitat. (USA, 35 min) ders between music and visual art. (USA, 20 min)

SUN OCT 23 11:30AM PA-Aquarius SAT OCT 22 8:40PM PA-Aquarius SAT OCT 29 2:00PM SU-Cantor

THE THING THAT HAPPENED TO EDUCATE A GIRL TRANSIT DIR/PROD: Andrew Walton DIR/PROD: Oren Rudavsky, Frederick Rendina DIR: Gina Tan PROD: Gina Tan, Dan Duran, Haley Quartarone, Hope North Secondary and Vocational School In 2000, 110 million children in the world were Emily Manheim, Juvia Chua, Eysham Md Ali in northern Uganda struggles on a shoestring not in school—two-thirds of them were girls. budget to provide a home and an education for Framed by the UN global initiative to provide Movements re$ect the soul in more ways than children displaced by the civil war between the equal access to education for girls by 2015, one. Not only do dance and music explore a Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and the Uganda To Educate a Girl takes a ground-up and visually character in a story, they also creatively shape People’s Defense Forces (UDPF). The students are stunning view of that e#ort through the eyes an emotion and passion. Sri, an aspiring dancer, a mix of former child soldiers, orphans and the of girls out of school, starting school or "ghting comes to grips with the di%cult consequences abjectly poor. Mitigating the horri"c e#ects of against the odds to stay in school. (Nepal/ of being an outcast in his culture and within the war and focusing them on their future is Uganda, 74 min) his own family by engaging in a lifestyle that is a monumental task. (Uganda/USA, 20 min) socially unacceptable and a taboo in his country of Singapore. (Singapore, 10 min)

FRI OCT 21 7:00PM PA-Aquarius MON OCT 24 7:50PM PA-Aquarius SAT OCT 29 9:15PM SU-Annenberg Aud 9 TRUST: SECOND ACTS IN YOUNG LIVES WASTE LAND WEAPON OF WAR DIR: Nancy Kelly DIR: Lucy Walker, Karen Harley, João Jardi DIR/PROD: Ilse van Velzen, Femke van Velzen PROD: Nancy Kelly, Kenji Yamamoto PROD: Angus Aynsley, Hank Levine In personal interviews, soldiers and former com- Trust begins in a small theater as a group of teen- Academy Nominated documentary, Waste Land batants provide openhearted but shocking tes- age actors receive a standing ovation. The "lm follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys timony about rape in the Democratic Republic then takes us back to the beginning, when from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Bra- of Congo. Despite di#ering views on causes or Marlin, an 18 year old Hondureña shares her zil and the world’s largest garbage dump, Jardim criminal status, all reveal how years of con$ict, traumatic story. Amazing things unfold as the Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de as well as discrimination against women, have young actors make the story into a daring, origi- Janeiro. Muniz’s initial objective was to “paint” normalized brutal sexual violence. We also see nal play. Trust is about creativity and the unex- the catadores with garbage. But his collaboration former rapists struggling to change their own or pected resources inside people who are often with these inspiring characters as they recreate others’ behavior, and reintegrate into their com- discounted because they are poor, young, or of photographic images turned to something else. munities. (Netherlands/Congo, 60 min) color. (Honduras/USA, 78 min) (Brazil/UK/USA, 99 min)

THU OCT 27 7:00PM PA High School THU OCT 27 8:00PM SU-Cantor FRI OCT 28 8:30PM SU-Annenberg Aud

WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED: WHEN THE WATER ENDS WHITE GOLD: THE TRUE COST OF COTTON THE NASHVILLE SIT&INS PROD: Jennifer Redfearn DIR/PROD: Environmental Justice Foundation DIR: Dave Por"ri, Linda Duvoisin Photographer: Evan Abramson PROD: Dave Por"ri Largely "lmed undercover, this "lm exposes For thousands of years, semi-nomadic pastoral- how each year schools are closed and tens of The Nashville Sit-ins of 1960 were among the ists have followed fresh water sources and graz- thousands of children are forced by the Uzbek most important events of the Civil Rights Move- ing land. They are accustomed to harsh environ- government to work in the cotton "elds. Uzbeki- ment. Over a period of several months, college ments and surviving with limited resources. But stan in Central Asia is the world’s third largest students from Fisk University and other schools with the impacts of climate change, competition exporter of cotton. Europe is one of its biggest staged very well organized, nonviolent protests for water and pasture is escalating. Increased buyers. The period can last up to three months, at downtown lunch counters. It was just the "rst drought and decreased rainfall is fueling violent during which older children live in dormitories or step in ending segregation in all facets of life con$ict over water and grazing lands. (Ethiopia/ classrooms under harsh conditions—a poor diet, throughout the city and it inspired similar move- Kenya, 16 min) lack of clean water and exposure to toxic pesti- ments throughout the South. (USA, 11 min) cides. (UK/Uzbekistan, 8 min)

SUN OCT 30 12:00PM SU-Cubberley Aud SAT OCT 29 5:15PM SU-Annenberg Aud FRI OCT 28 5:00PM SU-Encina Hall

WIKIREBELS ZIMBABWE’S FORGOTTEN CHILDREN DIR: Bosse Lindquist, Jesper Huor DIR Jezza Neumann PROD: Xoliswa Sithole PROD: Ingemar Persson Grace, Esther and Obert not only struggle to put Who are the people behind WikiLeaks and how food in their mouths, but also desperately seek did they get where they are today? WikiRebels the money they need to pay next term’s school follows the organization’s development, from fees. Twelve-year-old Grace rummages through back when its founder Julian Assange was a rubbish dumps in Harare to "nd bones to sell. teenager, hacking into the army’s mainframe Nine-year-old Esther must care for her baby sis- computers, up until the present and the releas- ter, and her mother who is dying of HIV/AIDS. ing of 260,000 explosive American diplomatic Thirteen-year-old Obert pans for gold to make reports. Julian Assange and several of the organi- enough money to buy food for himself and his zation’s key players appear, giving their "rst grandmother, while dreaming of somehow get- www.una$.org in-depth interviews. (Sweden, 59 min) ting the education. (Zimbabwe, 90 min)

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VII Session X Session 9:50 PM BURMA SOLDIER 3:45 PM CHILL OUT (Serbia) PANEL DISCUSSIONS (Burma/Ireland/Thailand/USA) 4:15 PM CINEMA COMUNISTO (Serbia) Free Admission XI Session CAN YOU TEACH HAPPINESS? 6:30 PM IRAN: A CINEMATOGRAPHIC Monday October 24 at 6:45PM REVOLUTION (Iran) AOL Patch 395 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto XII Session 8:30 PM BIG SISTER PUNAM (Nepal) TEACHERS’ PAY AS A FACTOR 9:45 PM A MAO E A LUVA—THE STORY OF A IN EDUCATION QUALITY BOOK TRAFFICKER (Brazil/Italy) Tuesday October 25 at 6:00 PM Stanford University Encina Hall, 616 Serra Street MONDAY 10.24 TUESDAY 10.25 Palo Alto, AOL Patch UNAFF IN SCHOOLS PROGRAM PLAYING IN VIRTUAL AND REAL WORLDS 395 Page Mill Road Palo Alto High School, Haymarket Theatre Tuesday October 25 at 8:15 PM XIII Session 50 Embarcadero Road Boys & Girls Clubs 4:45 PM Reception with the filmmakers XVII Session Moldaw-Zaffaroni Clubhouse 5:15 PM OVERNIGHT STAY (Poland/USA) 2:00 PM SETTING THE STAGE (USA) 2031 Pulgas Avenue, East Palo Alto 5:30 PM HAPPY (Bhutan/Brazil/Denmark/India/ 2:45 PM ORIGINAL MINDS (USA) Japan/Namibia/USA) THE FIGHT FOR HEALTH—GLOBAL AND LOCAL 6:45 PM Panel: “Can You Teach Happiness?” Stanford University, Freeman Spogli Institute Wednesday October 26 at 6:50 PM for International Studies Stanford University, Medical School Palo Alto, Aquarius Theatre Encina Hall, 616 Serra Street (Li Ka Shing Center Building) 430 Emerson Street XVIII Session 291Campus Drive, Room Alway M114 XIV Session 4:15 PM AMERICAN TEACHER (USA) 7:00 PM SHATTERING THE MYTH OF AGING: 6:00 PM Panel: “Teachers’ Pay as a Factor in THE CAPACITY OF ART TO SENIOR GAMES CELEBRATE HEALTHY Education Quality” TRANSFORM AND EDUCATE LIFESTYLES, COMPETITION AND 6:45 PM Reception with the filmmakers Thursday October 27 at 6:30 PM COMMUNITY (USA) Stanford University 7:30 PM ABUELAS (GRANDMOTHERS) East Palo Alto Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive (Argentina/UK) Eastside Theater, 1041 Myrtle Street XIX Session STUDYING OR WORKING: XV Session 4:00 PM RAISING YUSRIYA (Egypt) A YOUNG PERSON’S DILEMMA 7:50 PM TO EDUCATE A GIRL 4:40 PM SHANTY TOWN CINDERELLAS Friday October 28 at 5:15PM (Nepal/Uganda/USA) (South Africa) Stanford University 5:00 PM FACING FORWARD (USA) Encina Hall, 616 Serra Street XVI Session 9:15 PM FATAL PROMISES East Palo Alto, Boys & Girls Club THE ART OF EATING HEALTHY (Austria/Ukraine/USA) Moldaw-Zaffaroni Clubhouse, 2031 Pulgas Avenue Saturday October 29 12:40 PM XX Session Stanford University 7:00 PM PLAY AGAIN (USA) Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive 8:15 PM Panel: “Playing in Virtual and Real Worlds” 9:00 PM PROBLEM KIDZ (USA) 12 SCHEDULE WEDNESDAY 10.26 THURSDAY 10.27 CO-PRESENTERS Stanford University, Stanford Medical School Stanford University We would like to thank all of our (Li Ka Shing Center Building) 291Campus Drive Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive co-presenters for publicizing XXI Session XXVII Session UNAFF screenings to their members! 5:15 PM MAKING NOISE IN SILENCE 5:00 PM KENYA MAASAI: THE RACE TO PRESERVE (South Korea/USA) THE PAST (Kenya) 3rd i South Asian Film Festival 5:50 PM RESTORING THE LIGHT (China) 5:30 PM THE POWER OF ART: WOMEN’S VOICES Arab Film Festival 6:50 PM Panel: “The Fight for Health— IN AFRICA (Algeria/Benin/Burkina Faso/ Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula Global and Local” Egypt/Mali/Morocco/Nigeria/Senegal/ Cantor Arts Center South Africa) Center for African Studies, Stanford XXII Session 6:30 PM Panel: “The Capacity of Art to Transform Center for Asian American Media 8:00 PM HOW DO YOU TELL SOMEBODY THAT and Educate” Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford YOU’RE HIV+? (USA) Center for Latin Amerian Studies, Stanford 8:30 PM THE POWER OF TWO (USA) XXVIII Session 8:00 PM WASTE LAND (Brazil/USA) Center for Russian, East European & San Francisco, Balboa Theatre Eurasian Studies, Stanford 3630 Balboa Street Palo Alto High School, Haymarket Theatre Center for South Asia, Stanford XXIII Session 50 Embarcadero Road City of East Palo Alto 5:30 PM BECAUSE WE WERE BEAUTIFUL XXIX Session Eastside College Preparatory School (Indonesia/Netherlands) 7:00 PM TRUST: SECOND ACTS IN YOUNG LIVES Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford (Honduras/USA) Iranian Film Festival-San Francisco XXIV Session 6:50 PM PARADISE HOTEL (Bulgaria) Physicians for Human Rights Student Group, Stanford XXV Session San Francisco International Film Festival 8:10 PM FORERUNNERS (South Africa) San Francisco Jewish Film Festival School of Education, Stanford XXVI Session Stanford Institute for Creativity 9:20 PM BUTTERFLIES AND BULLDOZERS (USA) and the Arts (SICA) Stanford Lively Arts UNA San Francisco Chapter

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16 HOW DO YOU TELL SOMEBODY ONCE UPON A ROOFTOP RACHEL THE THING THAT HAPPENED THAT YOU’RE HIV+? e: [email protected] Women Make Movies Walton Films e: [email protected] w: www.imdb.com/title/tt1673643 E: [email protected] e: [email protected] w: www.himab.com w: www.wmm.com w: www.waltonfilms.com ORIGINAL MINDS HOW TO START A REVOLUTION Bullfrog Films RAISING YUSRIYA TO EDUCATE A GIRL e: [email protected] e: [email protected] Public Affairs Media Group e: [email protected] w: www.howtostartarevolution w: www.bullfrogfilms.com/ e: info@publicaffairsmedia w: www.toeducateagirl.com film.com catalog/om.html group.com w: www.publicaffairsmedia TRANSIT IRAN: A CINEMATOGRAPHIC OUR SCHOOL group.com e: [email protected] REVOLUTION Sat Mic Film w: www.ftv.chapman.edu/life/ Icarus Films e: [email protected] RAMANA’S GARDEN blogs/dodge_college/2011_cecil_ e: [email protected] w: www.ourschoolfilm.com Explore.org award_winners w: www.icarusfilms.com e: [email protected] OVERNIGHT STAY w: www.explore.org/videos/player/ TRUST: SECOND ACTS IN JEANS AND MARTÒ e: [email protected] india-ramanas-garden YOUNG LIVES Suttvuess w: www.danielasherer.com Kelly+Yamamoto Productions e: [email protected] RESTORING THE LIGHT e: [email protected] w: www.suttvuess.com PARADISE HOTEL e: [email protected] w: www.trustdocumentary.org East Silver w: www.restoringthelight.com KENYA MAASAI: THE RACE TO e: [email protected] WASTE LAND PRESERVE THE PAST w: www.eastsilver.net RIVER OF RENEWAL Arthouse Films UNTV: 21ST Century e: [email protected] e: [email protected] e: [email protected] PINK SARIS w: www.riverofrenewal.org w: www.wastelandmovie.com w: www.unmultimedia.org/ Women Make Movies tv/21stcentury e: [email protected] SETTING THE STAGE WEAPON OF WAR w: www.wmm.com Moving Images Women Make Movies LA ISLA—ARCHIVES OF e: [email protected] e: [email protected] A TRAGEDY PLAY AGAIN w: www.movingimages.org w: www.wmm.com Iska Cine Bullfrog Films e: [email protected] e: [email protected] SHANTY TOWN CINDERELLAS WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED: w: www.iskacine.com/f_laisla w: www.bullfrogfilms.com Cling Film THE NASHVILLE SIT-INS e: [email protected] Mindflow Media THE LIGHT BULB CONSPIRACY THE POWER OF ART: WOMEN’S w: www.clingfilm.tv e: [email protected] MEDIAPRO VOICES IN AFRICA w: www.mindflowmedia.com e: [email protected] e: [email protected] SHATTERING THE MYTH OF w: www.mediapro.es w: members.shaw.ca/artsinaction/ AGING: SENIOR GAMES WHEN THE WATER ENDS The_Power_of_Art.html CELEBRATE HEALTHY LIFESTYLES, MediaStorm LUNCH COMPETITION AND COMMUNITY e: [email protected] e: [email protected] THE POWER OF TWO Concentric Media w: www.mediastorm.com/store/ w: www.lunchthefilm.com e: [email protected] e: [email protected] dvd-page/when-the-water-ends w: www.thepoweroftwomovie.com w: www.concentric.org//shattering MAKING NOISE IN SILENCE WHITE GOLD: THE TRUE COST e: [email protected] PRICELE$$ A SIMPLE QUESTION—THE STORY OF COTTON w: vimeo.com/24757788 Bullfrog Films OF STRAW e: [email protected] e: [email protected] Filmmakers Collaborative w: www.ejfoundation.org/ A MAO E A LUVA—THE STORY w: www.bullfrogfilms.com e: [email protected] page330.html OF A BOOK TRAFFICKER w: www.asimplequestion.org e: [email protected] PROBLEM KIDZ WIKIREBELS w: www.facebook.com/pages/ Adobe Youth Voices TALIBE: THE LEAST FAVORED SVT Sales A-Mao-e-a-Luva-The-story-of- e: [email protected] CHILDREN OF SENEGAL e: [email protected] a-book-trafficker w: www.youthvoices.adobe.com DEEDA Productions w: www.svt.se/2.77247/1.2269992/ e: [email protected] wikirebels MERCY BEYOND BORDERS PROSECUTOR w: www.deedaproductions.com e: [email protected] Icarus Films ZIMBABWE’S FORGOTTEN w: www.mercybeyondborders.org e: [email protected] THERE’S NO SOUND IN MY HEAD CHILDREN w: www.icarusfilms.com/new Lateral Films True Vision Productions MISTURA: THE POWER OF FOOD 2011/pros.html e: [email protected] e: [email protected] e: [email protected] w: www.lateralfilms.com w: www.truevisiontv.com/films/ w: www.mercybeyondborders.org details/65/ zimbabwes-forgotten-children

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A Program of The United Nations Foundation UNAFF TRAVELING FILM FESTIVAL PROGRAM UNA MIDPENINSULA Encouraged by the overwhelmingly positive response UNA Midpeninsula Chapter serves as a link be- from our audience and the media, we continue with tween the community and the United Nations by year round screenings through our UNAFF Traveling promoting awareness of world issues and the UN Film Festival, which has taken place in San Francisco, Berkeley, Monterey, Santa Cruz, Davis, Saratoga, Sonoma, global agenda through !lm screenings, public Sebastopol, San Diego, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Salt Lake forums, newsletters, web site, and Information City, Honolulu, Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington DC, Center. Our volunteer-run store, a treasure trove New York, Burlington, New Hampshire, Bellevue, Durham of international gi" items, supports fair trade for at Duke University, New Haven at Yale University, local cra"smen all over the world. Waukesha at University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, Houston at Rice University, Boston and Cambridge at Harvard University and internationally in Paris, Venice, Belgrade, UNA MIDPENINSULA GIFT STORE Phnom Penh and Abu Dhabi. For more details please AND INFORMATION CENTER check: 552 Emerson Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301 www.unaff.org (Traveling Film Festival page) 



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Suzanne Abel Roxana Gharegozlou Marina Latu Pat Sanders Karen Adams Alex Gifford Mireille Le Breton Diane and John Savage Roberta Ahlquist Dianne and Charles Giancarlo Laurie and Ben Lenail Erika Shershun Terry Andre Robert Glover Michael Levin Gail Silva Linda Arrillaga Amanda Eng Godburn Catherine Little Marty Simmons Jonathan Berger Megan Gorman Patrick Madden Paula and Steve Smith Raj Bhandari Nancy Green Judy and George Marcus Cherrill Spenser Helen and Peter Bing Dan Griffin Elliot Margolies Christiana State Chris Bischof Georgianna Kiopelani Gyzen Margery Morel-Seytoux Stephen J. Stedman Coit Blacker Natalie Haber Julie Quanz Morsellino Aparna Surendra Dick Bogard and Iris Fraser Cliff Hayashi Enrigue Gonzalez Muller Raman Thiruvenkatachari Tricia Brazil Haywood Ho Norman Naimak Tamara Turner Marie Bridgham Jane Howell Julie Noblitt Liliana Vazquez Pat Burt Joshua Hurst Jesse Norfleet Jane Wales Priscilla and Martin Connelly Masako Ichihara Nazli Ozyaprak Hannah Waleh Mary Dakin Christopher Lance Jenkins Catherine O’Brien Dave Walter David Demarest Anjelica Kempis Meda Okelo William Webster Roberta and Steve Denning Ashraf Khan Deborah Farrington Padilla Regina and Gregory Weingarten Rebekkah Dilts Yoriko Kishimoto Vaciliki Papademetriou Charles Annenberg Weingarten Dale Djerassi Valerie Klobe Bruce Pressman John Williams Sid Espinosa Amelia Kolokihakaufisi Priscilla Reagan Bryan Wolf Leah Edwards Shelly Kosak Susan Rohani Sura Wood Adam Garrett-Clark Jan Krawitz Jeff Ross Tracy Wu Robin Gartwait Ada Kulenovic Laarni von Ruden Marcia Yoon-Yeates George Geevargis Karen Larsen Robert Russell Helen Young Loi Gendzel Kelly Michelle Lacob Kristine Samuelson Patience Young

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STANFORD TICKET OFFICE OPENING NIGHT PARTY Tresidder Union, 650-725-2787 with the "lmmakers—$75 http://tickets.stanford.edu SATURDAY, October 22 UNA STORE SUNDAY, October 23 552 Emerson Street, Palo Alto (except UNAFF & KIDS session 650-326-3170 between 11:00AM-1:00PM) MONDAY, October 24 OR AT THE FESTIVAL Palo Alto SESSIONS $10 per "lm for general public

ADMISSION TUESDAY, October 25 East Palo Alto Screenings ADMISSION&PER FILM SESSION Tickets can be purchased at (1.5–3 hours) the door before the screenings $10 for general public $10 per "lm session for general public FESTIVAL PASS WEDNESDAY, October 26 & (all 10 days, 41 sessions) San Francisco Screenings $150 general public KIDS Tickets for San Francisco screenings DAILY PASSES can be purchased at the door of (for Stanford screenings only) the Balboa Theater Thursday–Friday $10 per "lm for general public $20 general public CLOSING NIGHT FILM only Saturday–Sunday $15 general public $30 general public CLOSING NIGHT FILM & PARTY $35 general public FREE ADMISSION FOR:

Screenings and panels for teachers and students. Take this great opportunity ONLY ARRIVE EARLY this year in celebration of our theme First-come, %rst-served at all events. Opening Night Screenings Tickets and pass holders must Friday, October 21 in Palo Alto arrive 15 minutes prior to showtime Opening night screenings are free, to guarantee admission. seating is limited, no tickets are availaable prior to showtime, line-up at the theatre. Anyone arriving less than 15 minutes prior to showtime cannot be guaranteed UNAFF is an independent project UNAFF & Kids Program in Palo Alto a seat, even with a ticket or pass. of the UNA-USA, a nonpro"t orga- Sunday, October 23 No refunds, exchanges, substitutions nization. By making a tax-deduct- All UNAFF PANELS or replacements will be issued. ible donation to UNAFF you will directly give thousands of people a chance to see these important For more information, please call 650-724-5544 or visit UNAFF 2011 at www.una$.org. "lms that bring our diverse com- For screening locations at Stanford, go to www.una#.org/map.html. munity together. Please send your gift (payable to UNAFF) to: UNAFF PO Box 19369 Stanford, CA 94309 www.una$.org (paypal page) Printed on recycled paper using vegetable based ink. 20

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