USF Human Rights Film Festival

Films are available for streaming starting today! Join us for USF's Human Rights Film Festival. Register here: https://www.usfca.edu//human-rights-film/film-descriptions

Make sure to register for this year's Human Rights Film Festival! Films are available to stream starting tomorrow, Friday, Feb.19th + Q&As are next week. https://www.usfca.edu/arts-sci//human-rights-film-festival

THE 18th USF HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Standing Above the Clouds (Jalena Keane, USA, 2019) will be showing at 12:45 PM on Thursday, March 26th at the Human Rights Film Festival at USF. Standing Above the Clouds is a story of inter-generational women activists, Ku Kia'i Mauna, or guardians of the mountain. The film follows three sets of mothers and daughters indigenous on the Big Island of Hawaii who find themselves standing at the forefront of the movement to safeguard their sacred mountain, Mauna a Wakea, when a construction permit is granted for an eighteen story, Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) to be built directly below the summit on pristine, untouched land.

We are celebrating our eighteenth anniversary with an amazing program. This year’s films address human rights violations in the U.S., Syria, Guatemala, The Philippines, Chile, Argentina, China, Hawaii, Australia, Nicaragua, Canada, and Myanmar. The issues include: political repression, genocide, disappearances, human trafficking, women’s rights, climate change, environmental destruction, LGBTQ rights, racism, indigenous rights, colonialism, extractive economy, migrations, imm...igration, refugees. We hope to see you at the festival! Susana Kaiser Director, Cine Acción at USF

Fire in Paradise (Zackary Canepari and Drea Cooper, USA, 2019) will be showing at 11:30 AM on Thursday, March 26th at the Human Rights Film Festival at USF. On the morning of November 8, 2018, a seemingly small fire broke out in Butte County, California, near the town of Paradise. Over the course of a few short hours, the Camp Fire grew into the country’s deadliest wildfire in over a century, killing 85 people and destroying Paradise (from Hamptons International Film Festiv...al). The film uses multiple viewpointsfirst responders, 911 operators, elementary school teachers, and residentsto chronicle acts of heroism that occurred during the devastating fire. The inside story of the most destructive fire in California history, its causes and the impact of climate change. The film premiered at Telluride before winning the Audience Award at the Hamptons Film Festival See more

Last Q&A of the festival with Professor Pedro Lange-Churión and Professor Susana Kaiser after our screening of The Silence of Others. Thanks so much for all those who came!

Join us for the last screening of the festival, The Silence of Others with a Q&A afterwards including USF Professor Pedro Lange-Churión (Modern & Classical Languages, Latin American Studies, Film Studies, Urban Studies) and USF Professor Susana Kaiser (Media Studies & Latin American Studies).

Tre Maison Dasan will be playing today at 3:45 PM. There will be a Q&A afterward with Ivan Corado-Vega, Violence Intervention Facilitator, Men Allied Nationally Against Living In Violent Environments (manalive), Restorative Justice Advocate and Dr. Reggie Daniels, Social Justice Practitioner, USF Alum.

It’s the last day of the film festival! Come check out The Cleaners at 1:30 PM with a Q&A with USF Professor Tamara Kneese (Media Studies) afterwards. Hope to see you there!

Thanks so much to our wonderful speakers after the screening of Leitis in Waiting last night! Come join us today, Saturday 23rd for the last day of the film festival!