Human Rights Watch International Film Festival January 25 - 27, 2001

Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
January 25 - 27, 2001 - San Francisco Bay Area
Human Rights Watch brings its acclaimed international film festival to the Bay Area for the very first time! Screening nine intriguing and controversial films focusing on human rights issues around the world, including:

THE DIPLOMAT
US PREMIERE!
6:30 pm, January 26, 2001 at the Rafael Film Center
1118 Fourth St. (between A & B Streets)
San Rafael
415-454-1222
Tom Zubrycki (Australia 2000, 81 min.)
In English, Portuguese and Tetun with English subtitles
An intimate and engaging portrait of East Timorese Independence leader
and
Nobel Prize recipient, Jose Ramos Horta. The film spans two crucial
years in
Horta\'s struggle for his country, beginning in 1998 at the first
Timorese
National Convention in Lisbon and culminating with the amazing events of

1999. In 1975 when the Portuguese withdrew from Timor, Horta was named
foreign minister of his government. Horta was on a plane to New York to

seek support for the new fledgling nation of Timor when Indonesia
invaded
the country. Forced into exile, Horta spent the next quarter of a
century
lobbying the United Nations and potentially sympathetic democracies to
recognize the rights of the Timorese people-- a story which the western
press had very little to say about and even less interest in.

6:30 pm, January 26, 2001 at the Rafael Film Center
Filmmaker Tom Zubrycki in person
Co-presented by the National Asian American Telecommunications
Association
(NAATA)
Community Sponsor - East Timor Action Network (ETAN)

For ticket information, please call:
Rafael Film Center
(415) 454-1222
http://www.rafaelfilmcenter.org

OUR FESTIVAL
The Human Rights Watch International Film Festival is the world\'s
leading
showcase for distinguished fiction, documentary, and animated films and
videos that incorporate human rights themes. The Festival presents works

that give a human face and personal viewpoints to threats against
political
and individual freedom. For more information, visit
http://www.hrw.org/iff


http://www.greenleft.org.au/current/433p19b.htm
>EAST TIMOR: UN agency workers go on strike
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>BY VANYA TANAJA
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>DILI