We invite you to attend the following FREE event:
After a prolonged period of uncertainty and a direct appeal to the President of Rwanda, Hadidja Zaninka (pictured here), a young Rwandan Muslim and star of the award-winning film Kinyarwanda, was finally granted permission to visit the US. Based on fact, the film highlights the heroism of Rwanda’s Muslim minority in saving lives during the genocide. The first event of Hadidja’s road trip with American producer Darren Dean will be here in Albany. She will be arriving in the US Thursday and speaking here Friday. This is her first visit to the US. Because access to the film is controlled in Rwanda, she has viewed it only once before. She may choose to sit through it here to have the experience of seeing it with an American audience. The filmmakers have tried to get her an exit visa before to no avail.
September 28 (Friday)
Catered reception – 6:30 p.m., Page Hall, 135 Western
Avenue, Downtown Campus
Film screening — 7:30 p.m., Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue,
Downtown Campus
Written and directed by Alrick Brown
(United States, Rwanda, France, 2011, 100 minutes, color)
In English and Kinyarwanda with English subtitles
Winner of the World Cinema Audience award at the 2011
Sundance Film Festival, KINYARWANDA is based on the heroic true story of local
Muslim clergy who risked their lives to save both Tutsi and pacifist
Hutu—Christians as well as Muslims—during the Rwandan genocide. In a four star
review, Roger Ebert said, “Here is a powerful film.”
NOTE: The film’s producer Darren Dean and leading Rwandan
actress Hadidja Zaninka (pictured here) will answer questions immediately after
the screening.
The film is part of the Justice & Multiculturalism in
the 21st Century Film Series: Justice & Multiculturalism in the 21st
Century is a multifaceted project aimed at engaging conversations about the
intersection of social justice and criminal justice in an increasingly diverse
society. UAlbany’s School of Criminal Justice and the Writers Institute are
partnering to present six films over the next year that will explore these
issues. Topics that will be explored during the fall 2012 series are genocide,
capital punishment, and terrorism. Each screening will be followed by a
discussion. For additional information on the Justice & Multiculturalism in
the 21st Century project go to: http://www.albany.edu/justiceinstitute/.
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