Cinema Verite puts the "FOCUS" on Landmines
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Cinema Verite, is hosting FOCUS 2007 this month in Monaco and Paris. The meetings will focus on the issue of landmines and cluster bombs, and will honour 1997 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Jody Williams for her contribution to the movement against landmines. The official artist Blake will be showing his Fragments Series of sculpture at the evening ceremony in Monaco under the patronage of S.A.R. la Princess de Hanovre.
In addition to Williams, the events will also pay tribute to Louis Jenson, the inspiration for the film North Country, and Carla del Ponte, the Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague. It will take place in Monaco from Oct 10 to 11 and continue afterwards in Paris from Oct 12 to 14.
Among films already confirmed are Rory Kennedy’s Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, Marcel Schupbach’s film about Carla del Ponte Carla’s List and actress Marianne Denincourt’s directory debut, a documentary about children in Afghanistan.
Among the film-makers who have pledged their support to the organization are Danis Tanovic, Radu Mihaileanu and Nabil Ayouch, who were present yesterday, and Kennedy, Siddiq Barmak, Niki Caro, Jan Kounen, Hany Abu-Assad, Krzyzstof Zanussi, Eytan Fox, Shekhar Kapur, Claude Miller, Coline Serreau and Elie Chouraqui.
“Cinema plays a pivotal role in shaping our understanding of the world and of ourselves,” said Queen Noor of Jordan at the announcement of FOCUS 2007. “I have seen both the best and the worst of the impact of film and media.”
For more information, please visit the Cinema Verite website: http://www.cinema-verite.org/
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