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 Film is one of the most powerful mediums available for conveying information and messages to audiences around the world.
In the past year, we have seen an explosion of films with a global health message produced by a wide range of organizations and filmmakers. In order to advance understanding and action on critical global health issues, the Council is expanding opportunities for members and global health professionals to view some of the best work in film on these issues in the past year.
The Film Series not only showcases outstanding productions, but also provides conference participants with a venue to learn more about how to use film effectively to communicate global health issues with large audiences in the developed and developing worlds.
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| Wednesday, May 30, 2007 |
Film Series Red Carpet Premiere
7:30-9 pm
Regency Ballroom | map
The Film Series Premiere is a great opportunity to learn more about the unique contribution film makes toward communicating global health messages. We’ll also discuss some of the approaches and questions your organization should consider before undertaking a film project. Clips from several global health films will be featured – highlighting a spectrum of important work on the issues of our time.
Moderator & Speaker:
Nina Gilden Seavey
Emmy award winning filmmaker and a 25-year veteran of the documentary film world.
She also serves as the executive producer of SILVERDOCS: The AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival.
Speakers:
Thomas Lennon
Producer
The China AIDS Media Project
Lennon’s work in documentary film has won the field’s most coveted honors: an Academy Award (he was twice nominated), a duPont-Columbia award, two George Foster Peabody and Writers’ Guild awards, and two Emmys.
 Lennon is co-founder with Ruby Yang of The China AIDS Media Project, which launched the first major AIDS campaigns in China and has reached an estimated 300 million Chinese viewers. Before setting up his own production company in 1987, Lennon worked for almost a decade in the Close-up Division of ABC News, with assignments in the Soviet Union, South America and the Middle East.
Ruby Yang
Director
The China AIDS Media Project
Ruby Yang is a noted Chinese-American filmmaker whose work in documentary and dramatic film has earned her an Academy Award and numerous international awards. She lives and works in Beijing, directing documentaries and public service announcements for The China AIDS Media Project.
David Poland
Communications Officer
Malaria Vaccine Initiative, PATH
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Film Series and Brown Bag Lunch
Using Film to Inspire Students in Global Health
ˇSalud! | website
12:45–2:15 pm
Exhibition Hall Theatre
Film Series at Career Fair:
The award-winning film ˇSalud!, a feature documentary, directed by Academy Award nominee Connie Field, spans three continents to look at the philosophy and health professionals placing Cuba on the map in the worldwide movement to make health care a global birthright.
Reviews:
“Compelling, upbeat and moving. A great tool for learning….”
– Paul Farmer, MD, Partners in Health
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Film Series and Brown Bag Lunch
Using Film to Impact HIV/AIDS Pandemic
Tumaini Letu (Our Hope), Kenya | website
The Academy for Educational Development
1–2 pm
Ambassador Ballroom | map
In the villages of western Kenya, AIDS has robbed hundreds of thousands of children of their parents. Tumaini Letu is a story of triumph and hope for Kenya’s next generation.
A film about the lives, struggles and indomitable spirit of three women left to care for these orphans. This film features the lives of Anna Khautu, a single mother of five who lost her husband to AIDS, Rasoa Kivairu who is raising 10 grandchildren, and Anna Aredo, who has taken in four nephews. These women participate in the AED Speak for the Child Project, which is supported with funding from the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, USAID and donations from individuals.
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Film Series and Brown Bag Lunch
Using Film to Fight Disease
Vaccine Hunters | website
1–2 pm
Palladian Ballroom | map
A four-part BBC World documentary series Vaccine Hunters looks at the scientific advances and real-world challenges of delivering life-saving vaccines to children in the developing world. From the hunt for new technologies within research labs to the clinics in remote villages where the vaccines are given to children, the series looks at the promise of, and the progress on, making vaccines affordable and accessible to the countries where they are needed most.
In 2004, the GAVI Alliance, PATH, Pneumo ADIP, and the Hib Initiative collaborated with Rockhopper TV on the series to increase global awareness of the potential health impact of new and underutilized vaccines.
Presenter:
Eileen Quinn, PATH
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| Thursday, May 31, 2007 |
Film Series
Using Film in Refugee Settings
Participatory Films made by refugees and IDPs
1-2 pm
Ambassador Ballroom | map
FilmAid International: Edutainment film in refugee camps | website
American Refugee Committee (ARC) | website
FilmAid International is a nonprofit organization that uses the power of film and video to change lives. By screening films to hundreds of thousands of forcibly displaced people each year, FilmAid promotes health, strengthens communities, and enriches the lives of the world’s vulnerable and uprooted. FilmAid has developed innovative programs providing psychosocial stimulation, critical health education, and community-building messages on topics such as HIV/AIDS, human rights, peace and reconciliation and gender-based violence. Activities include mobile screenings of educational and entertaining films, local media production, facilitated discussions on issues critical to the refugee community and youth media projects.
Presenter:
Melissa Brough
Program Officer
FilmAid International
Through Our Eyes, Liberia
A profile of a unique participatory video project that helps conflict-affected communities raise their voices against gender violence. Through Our Eyes is a collaboration between the American Refugee Committee International and Communication for Change.
Presenter:
Connie Kamara | presentation
Senior Global Health Technical Advisor
American Refugee Committee
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Film Series and Brown Bag Lunch
Using Film to Fight Malaria
Fighting Malaria | website
Serac Adventure Films and Novartis
1-2 pm
Palladian Ballroom | map
This stunning documentary explores the state of malaria today through the stories of the people who know it best, those suffering with the illness, and those working for a cure. Now a new hope is emerging from an unexpected time and place. This film follows the emotional journey of two African families in their quest to acquire effective medication.
Presenter:
Bob Laverty
Vice President, Malaria Initiatives
Novartis
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Film Series and Brown Bag Lunch
Using Film to Reach Youth
Global Walk to Fight Youth HIV/AIDS Session
Hosted by TeenAIDS-PeerCorps | website
5-5:45 pm
Exhibition Hall Theatre
From late 1998 through 2006, Dr. John Chittick personally tested his Harvard research on peer-led prevention efforts on the streets of 75 countries. This is a video report of his unique walk.
(An encore presentation of this film will be shown Friday, June 1 from 12:45–2 pm in Congressional Room A)
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| Friday, June 1, 2007 |
Film Series and Brown Bag Lunch
Featured Award Winning Film
2007 Academy Award winner for documentary short film.
The Blood of Yingzhou District | website
1-2:15 pm
Ambassador Ballroom | map
 Due to unsafe practices, thousands of impoverished Chinese contract HIV and other diseases through contaminated blood, often leaving behind orphaned children to raise each other or depend on compassionate families for support.
One of them, Gau Jun, was abandoned by his family and refuses to utter a word. He is a victim of social stigma and a government that has failed to support its citizens. Neighbors prevent their children from playing with him, and his own extended family rejects him, fearing their own children will be isolated.
The Blood Of Yingzhou District is a stunningly shot, sensitive portrait of a hidden AIDS epidemic in a country not commonly associated with the disease.
Presenters:
Thomas Lennon
Producer
China AIDS Media Project
Ruby Yang
Director
China AIDS Media Project
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