WEDNESDAY AT SILVERDOCS:
TRIAGE: DR. JAMES ORBINSKI’S HUMANITARIAN DILEMMA
Screening and Panel Discussion featuring Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Orbinksi
Oscar Winner Alex Gibney presents his newest film GONZO: THE LIFE AND WORK OF DR. HUNTER S. THOMPSON
World Premiere Screening and Panel Discussion of IN THE FAMILY focusing on Genetics
Silver Spring, Maryland, June 18, 2008—Filmmaker Patrick Reed presents TRIAGE: DR. JAMES ORBINSKI’S HUMANITARIAN DILEMMA. When most fled Rwanda, Dr. James Orbinski flew in. TRIAGE is a deeply personal film about the man at the center of the imperfect system that our world has devised to care for victims of our political failures. James Orbinski, 1999 Nobel Peace Prize winner on behalf of Doctors Without Borders will participate in a panel discussion after the film.
- WHAT:
- SILVERDOCS Presents TRIAGE: DR. JAMES ORBINSKI’S
HUMANITARIAN DILEMMA followed by Panel Discussion
- WHO:
- Dr. James Orbinski, Film Subject and Nobel Prize Winner
- Patrick Reed, Filmmaker
- WHEN:
- Wednesday, June 18, 2008
- 6:45 p.m. – Film
- WHERE:
- AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
- 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD
OTHER WEDNESDAY EVENTS:
9:00 a.m. SILVERDOCS presents a free screening of parts 5-8 of An American Family.
10:30 p.m. Filmmakers Gennady Kuchuk & Fima Shlick present the North American premiere of YIDESHE MAMA, the story of a Russian immigrant in Israel, “saving” her son from marrying an Ethiopian.
11:30 a.m. SILVERDOCS Conference-It’s Not Just A Game: Storytelling In The Virtual Space.
11:30 a.m. SILVERDOCS Conference-HSUS/Animal Content In Entertainment Program - Grant Pitch For $25,000.
12:00 p.m. SILVERDOCS presents “(Dis)Connection,” a free showing of short films featuring ONE DAY, TONGZHI IN LOVE, and VIRTUAL FREEDOM (PODLOVE).
12:15 p.m.SILVERDOCS presents the US Premiere of SEAVIEW, which gives a poignant portrayal of the modern immigrant experience in a small resort town in Ireland. Filmmakers will attend the Friday screening.
1:30 p.m. SILVERDOCS presents a free showing of 4 LITTLE GIRLS as part of the Spike Lee Retrospective. The film examines the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham and the victims claimed in the horrific event.
1:45 p.m. Filmmaker Suvi Andrea Helminen presents ON THE WAY TO PARADISE, which explores the lives of aging Danish couple Inge and Holge, as they move into the last apartment they will share.
2:00 p.m. SILVERDOCS broadcasts straight from the Newseum with NPR’s Talk of The Nation. The program will feature Alex Gibney, GONZO: THE LIFE AND WORK OF DR. HUNTER S. THOMPSON, Yung Chang, UP THE YANGTZE, and Ayat Najafi, FOOTBALL UNDER COVER. Moderated by NPR’s Talk of the Nation on-air host, Neal Conan.
2:15 p.m. Director Joanna Rudnick presents IN THE FAMILY, a film which follows her experience and struggle with genetic testing. A panel discussion will follow the screening and features the director/subject, Barbara Biesecker, Genetic Counseling Head at NIH, Karen Rothenberg, Dean of Univ. of Maryland Law School, Sharon Terry, Founder of Genetic Alliance, and moderated by Simon Kilmurry, Executive Director of POV.
2:30 p.m. Plenary Session: The Future Of Non-Fiction Storytelling featuring John Boland, Chief Content Officer, PBS, John Ford, President and General Manager, Discovery Channel, and Cara Mertes, Director, Sundance Documentary Film Program.
2:30 p.m. Filmmaker Boris Despodov presents CORRIDOR # 8, a fabulously droll road trip across Bulgaria, Albania and Macedonia on Corridor #8—the Balkan antithesis of Route 66.
3:30 p.m. SILVERDOCS Conference-Is It Propaganda? Using Media As A Tool For Social Change.
4:15 p.m. SILVERDOCS presents LAW AND ORDER, by filmmaker Frederick Wiseman, as part of the “1968 and Beyond” strand. The film examines the Kansas City police department’s daily routine, with interactions that range from comedic and benign to undeniably bigoted and violent.
4:30 p.m. Chao Gan presents the World Premiere of THE RED RACE, a film chronicling the Chinese passion for gymnastics against the backdrop of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics and escalating international condemnation over Chinese policies from Tibet to Darfur.
5:00 p.m. SILVERDOCS presents JOURNEY OF A RED FRIDGE follows a young Nepalese porter named Hari who straps a red Coca-Cola refrigerator on his back and treks through the Himalayas to get it repaired.
5:30 p.m. SILVERDOCS presents “Minor Difficulties,” a free showing of short films featuring THE FIRST DAY, KIDS + MONEY, and YOUNG ARABS.
6:15 p.m. SILVERDOCS presents DUST, which encourages viewers to ponder the imaginative nature of something that has long escaped imagination.
6:45p.m. Filmmaker Patrick Reed presents TRIAGE: DR. JAMES ORBINSKI’S HUMANITARIAN DI LEMMA. The story focuses on Dr. James Orbinski, Nobel Prize Winner on behalf of Doctors Without Borders, and his brave trip to Rwanda. Panel Discussion follows film featuring both director and subject.
7:00 p.m. Filmmaker Scott Hamilton Kennedy presents the World Premiere of THE GARDEN. The film documents a 14-acre oasis rising out of the ashes of the 1992 L.A. riots.
7:30 p.m. Director Lucia Gaja presents MY LIFE INSIDE, the tragic story of Rosa, a Mexican citizen living illegally in Texas and addresses the contentious issue of illegal immigration and the pitfalls of the judicial system.
8:45 p.m. Filmmaker Maximilian Plettau presents COMEBACK, a film about German boxer Jürgen Hartenstein, a 35-year-old former middleweight champion hoping to re-enter the sport.
9:00 p.m. Filmmaker Matt Wolf presents WILD COMBINATION: A PORTRAIT OF ARTHUR RUSSELL, a film that looks at the seminal avant-garde composer, singer-songwriter, cellist and disco producer Arthur Russell.
9:30 p.m. Oscar winning filmmaker Alex Gibney presents GONZO: THE LIFE AND WORK OF DR. HUNTER S. THOMPSON, an in depth look at the man who chronicled and personified the 1960’s and 1970’s.
10:30 p.m. Filmmaker Yury Khashchavatski presents the US premiere of KALINOVSKI SQUARE, which documents the Belarussian president Alexander Lukashenko and his mounting opposition during the heady post- election days.
10:45 p.m. SILVERDOCS presents “All in a Day’s Work,” a free showing of short films featuring BOB’S KNEE, BREADMAKERS, NOT SACKS, SELF PORTRAIT WITH COWS GOING HOME AND OTHER WORKS: A PORTRAIT OF SYLVIA PLACHY, THE TAILOR, and YOU CANNOT HIDE FROM ALLAH.