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DARFUR DIARIES: MESSAGE FROM HOME

14.07 - 18.00 Moscow Cinema, Small Hall
2005, Sudan/Chad/USA, 57 min.

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Directors Across Borders

Script./Dir./Dir of Phot.: Aisha Bain, Adam Shapiro, Jen Marlowe.

Children, always among the most vulnerable in any conflict situation, are the focus of the film. The film allows the Darfurians to demonstrate to the world who they are.

Aisha Bain, Jen Marlowe&Adam Shapiro

Aisha Bain (born 1978, New York, USA)
Completed her Masters degree in the International Peace and Conflict Resolution Program at the School of International Service majoring in Human Rights at American University. Before arriving at the AU, she served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Madagascar. She served as Deputy Director at the Center for the Prevention of Genocide where she worked investigating and reporting the massacres in Darfur and Northern Uganda, and lobbying for international action. She has also conducted field research in human trafficking in South East Asia in 2004.

Jen Marlowe (born 1971, Philadelphia, USA)
Holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in psychology. She directed and coordinated the program at the Seeds of Peace Center for Coexistence in Jerusalem from 2000-2004, creating and implementing a coexistence program for Palestinian and Israeli youth. In addition, she was the program director for Seeds of Peace in Afghanistan, and facilitated conflict groups of youth from India and Pakistan, the Balkans, and Turkish and Greek Cypriot youth. Jen used video techniques through her work in Seeds of Peace, creating cross-border video dialogue projects for youth from Israel and Palestine and India and Pakistan. She is currently working on peace-building projects in Israel and Palestine and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Adam Shapiro (born 1972, New York, USA)
An activist, filmmaker, who most recently served as Country Director in Afghanistan for the international human rights organization Global Rights. He is a Ph.D. candidate in International Relations, and holds an M.A. in Politics from New York University and an M.A. in Arab Studies from Georgetown University. Adam is a founding member of InCounter Productions, which produced the documentary film, About Baghdad , based on filming in Baghdad, Iraq in 2003. He is also a co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement in Palestine and lived and worked in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for three years. He has lived and worked throughout the Arab world. Adam serves on the Board of Directors of Partners for Peace, and has been named an Honorary Veteran for Peace by the national Veterans for Peace organization.

Filmography
About Baghdad (2004), Darfur Diaries: A Message from Home (1995).

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Script/Dir.: Marco Bellocchio, Dir. of Phot.: Alberto Marrama, Compos.: Ennio Morricone, Prod. Design.: Gisella Longo, Edit.: Silvano Agosti, Prod.: Enzo Doria.
Cast:. Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Marino Masé, Liliana Gerace, Stefania Troglio, Jeannie McNeil.

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Awards
Silver Ribbon - Best Original Story, Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists, 1966; Silver Sail, Locarno IFF, 1965.

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Script/Dir./ Dir. of Phot./Prod.: Cristobal Vicente, Compos.: Carlos Canales, Toto Alvarez, Sound: Mario Diaz, Rafael Huerta, Cristobal Vicente. Edit.: Cristobal Vicente, Carlos Klein.

This film presnts a record of the last working year of the old prison of Valparaiso, which closed in 1999. It is a homage to the prison and to the values and customs of the men, who have secretly lived within it during its 150 year history.

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