The Screening Room
SHOW #26
Films from the Frontline
In April CNN's The Screening Room presents films from the frontline - film-makers who have struggled under difficult and often dangerous conditions to finish their stories and films focusing on the battle to protect human rights.
The International Criminal Court's Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo hit the headlines in March when he issued an arrest for warrant for the Sudanese President for war crimes in Darfur. In April he appears himself at the Hague as the star of a new film about the work of the court as he crosses the globe in search of justice. Myleene Klass heads for the Hague to track him down for The Screening Room at the Amnesty Film Festival.
Meanwhile in London, Human Rights Watch are staging their own film festival. In most parts of the world contestants on Pop Idol risk humiliation at worst but in Afghan Star female contestants risk the wrath of the Taliban with deadly consequences. In Burma VJ - it's the video journalists themselves at risk while seeking to document human rights abuses. And in Proejct Kashmir the film-makers are forced to flee when their cover is blown.
Also, a Palestinian projectionist taking film to the people with no cinema - and the woman battling for female film-makers on the West Bank.
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