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LA SOURCE / THU, FEB. 21 / 6-7:30pm / MALIBU HALL 100 Q&A with producer Brandon Vedder will follow Narrated by Oscar-nominated actor Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda, Crash), in what The Washington Post calls an “artfully shot documentary,” La Source tells the uplifting story of Josue Lajuenesse, a Haitian Princeton janitor who returns to his country after the devastating 2010 earthquake to revive his lifelong dream to bring what is most fundamental to his vil- lage’s survival; clean water. A hit at the 2012 AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documen- tary Festival where it received a standing ovation and a nomination for the Social Impact Award, this film from award-winning Director Patrick Shen (Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality, The Philosopher Kings) is not just a movie about clean water and community transformation; it is a story of one unlikely hero, empowered by a vision, who did whatever it took to ignite the passion of people thousands of miles away to change the lives of those in La Source forever. VIEW FROM A GRAIN OF SAND / THU, MAR. 7 / 6-7:30pm / MALIBU HALL 100 Q&A with filmmaker Meena Nanji will follow 2001 saw an unprecedented level of international interest in the lives of Afghan women liv- ing under the Taliban. With the Taliban’s fall later that year, the U.S proclaimed the dawn of a new era in Afghanistan that promised peace, democracy and liberation for women. Years after this “new era” was declared, cracks in this story are beginning to appear. Afghanistan is once again in the news, not because of successful reconstruction, but because of increasing violence and the highest rate of opium production in the world. And what about the women? Since 2001, the media spotlight on Afghan women has fallen, and with it, public knowledge of the current situation they face. What are their lives like now? Have they really improved since a new government took power? Have they gained any real rights or do they still live in fear and repression? CHILDREN IN NO MAN’S LAND / THU, MAR. 28 / 6-7:30pm / LIBRARY 1320 Q&A with filmmaker Anayansi Prado will follow A documentary that uncovers the current plight of the 100,000 unaccompanied minors en- tering the United States every year. This film gives this timely political debate about the U.S./ Mexico border a human face by exploring the story of Maria de Jesus (13) and her cousin Rene (12) as they attempt to cross the U.S./Mexico border alone to reunite with their moth- ers in the Midwest. Focusing on minors crossing through the Sonora Desert area in Nogales, Arizona, this film explores every detail of these children’s journey as well as the journeys of other children we meet on the way. We uncover in an intimate and personal way where they are coming from, what their journeys have been like, and how they’ve gone about making the United States of America their new home. BULLY / THU, APR. 11 / 6-7:30pm / MALIBU HALL 100 Panel discussion will follow Over 13 million American kids will be bullied this year, making it the most common form of violence experienced by young people in the nation. The new documentary film BULLY, directed by Sundance and Emmy-award winning filmmaker, Lee Hirsch, brings human scale to this startling statistic, offering an intimate, unflinching look at how bullying has touched five kids and their families. BULLY is a beautifully cinematic, character-driven documentary. At its heart are those with huge stakes in this issue whose stories each represent a differ- ent facet of America’s bullying crisis. Filmed over the course of the 2009/2010 school year, BULLY opens a window onto the pained and often endangered lives of bullied kids, revealing a problem that transcends geographic, racial, ethnic and economic borders. It documents the responses of teachers and administrators to aggressive behaviors that defy “kids will be kids” clichés, and it captures a growing movement among parents and youths to change how bullying is handled in schools, in communities and in society as a whole. A documentary series hosted by the Center for Community Engagement and the Center for Multicultural Engagement PARKING INFORMATION: For directions to the campus, please visit www.csuci.edu. Once on campus, please follow signs to dispensers to purchase a parking pass. Once parked, follow signs to event location. C H A N N E L I S L A N D S COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Center for California State University
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LA SOURCE / THU, FEB. 21 / 6-7:30pm / MALIBU HALL 100 Q&A with producer Brandon Vedder will follow
Narrated by Oscar-nominated actor Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda, Crash), in what The Washington Post calls an “artfully shot documentary,” La Source tells the uplifting story of Josue Lajuenesse, a Haitian Princeton janitor who returns to his country after the devastating 2010 earthquake to revive his lifelong dream to bring what is most fundamental to his vil-lage’s survival; clean water. A hit at the 2012 AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documen-tary Festival where it received a standing ovation and a nomination for the Social Impact Award, this film from award-winning Director Patrick Shen (Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality, The Philosopher Kings) is not just a movie about clean water and community transformation; it is a story of one unlikely hero, empowered by a vision, who did whatever it took to ignite the passion of people thousands of miles away to change the lives of those in La Source forever.
VIEW FROM A GRAIN OF SAND / THU, MAR. 7 / 6-7:30pm / MALIBU HALL 100 Q&A with filmmaker Meena Nanji will follow
2001 saw an unprecedented level of international interest in the lives of Afghan women liv-ing under the Taliban. With the Taliban’s fall later that year, the U.S proclaimed the dawn of a new era in Afghanistan that promised peace, democracy and liberation for women. Years after this “new era” was declared, cracks in this story are beginning to appear. Afghanistan is once again in the news, not because of successful reconstruction, but because of increasing violence and the highest rate of opium production in the world. And what about the women? Since 2001, the media spotlight on Afghan women has fallen, and with it, public knowledge of the current situation they face. What are their lives like now? Have they really improved since a new government took power? Have they gained any real rights or do they still live in fear and repression?
CHILDREN IN NO MAN’S LAND / THU, MAR. 28 / 6-7:30pm / LIBRARY 1320 Q&A with filmmaker Anayansi Prado will follow
A documentary that uncovers the current plight of the 100,000 unaccompanied minors en-tering the United States every year. This film gives this timely political debate about the U.S./Mexico border a human face by exploring the story of Maria de Jesus (13) and her cousin Rene (12) as they attempt to cross the U.S./Mexico border alone to reunite with their moth-ers in the Midwest. Focusing on minors crossing through the Sonora Desert area in Nogales, Arizona, this film explores every detail of these children’s journey as well as the journeys of other children we meet on the way. We uncover in an intimate and personal way where they are coming from, what their journeys have been like, and how they’ve gone about making the United States of America their new home.
BULLY / THU, APR. 11 / 6-7:30pm / MALIBU HALL 100 Panel discussion will follow
Over 13 million American kids will be bullied this year, making it the most common form of violence experienced by young people in the nation. The new documentary film BULLY, directed by Sundance and Emmy-award winning filmmaker, Lee Hirsch, brings human scale to this startling statistic, offering an intimate, unflinching look at how bullying has touched five kids and their families. BULLY is a beautifully cinematic, character-driven documentary. At its heart are those with huge stakes in this issue whose stories each represent a differ-ent facet of America’s bullying crisis. Filmed over the course of the 2009/2010 school year, BULLY opens a window onto the pained and often endangered lives of bullied kids, revealing a problem that transcends geographic, racial, ethnic and economic borders. It documents the responses of teachers and administrators to aggressive behaviors that defy “kids will be kids” clichés, and it captures a growing movement among parents and youths to change how bullying is handled in schools, in communities and in society as a whole.
A documentary series hosted by theCenter for Community Engagement and the Center for Multicultural Engagement
PARKING INFORMATION:For directions to the campus, please visit www.csuci.edu.Once on campus, please follow signs to dispensers to purchasea parking pass. Once parked, follow signs to event location.
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