"No Fire Zone" Film Screening and Panel Discussion

Location

Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, Theatre

Cost

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Award-winning documentary filmmaker Callum Macrae will screen his documentary, No Fire Zone, which tells the story of the final 138 days of the 26-year Sri Lanka civil war and sheds light on the government's brutal military offensive, at the University of San Diego's Kroc School of Peace Studies on February 11.

Through powerful personal stories, eyewitness testimony and video evidence, No Fire Zone shows how thousands of civilians were told to gather in what the government promised would be a no fire zone and were then systematically shelled and deliberately denied adequate food and medicines. No Fire Zone incorporates direct evidence of summary execution, torture and sexual violence via footage recorded from within the zone by both victims and perpetrators on mobile phones and small cameras. Besides the documentary’s subject matter, Macrae will discuss his post-production efforts to raise awareness of these human rights issues.

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*This film contains graphic imagery that may not be suitable for all audiences*

Program:

6:30 p.m. - Welcome and Film Screening
8 p.m. - Panel Discussion:
• Callum Macrae, Filmmaker, No Fire Zone
• Zahra Ismail, Program Officer, Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice
• Tom Hundley, Senior Editor, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Moderator

Dessert reception immediately following program.

This event is co-sponsored by USD's Communication Studies Department and the Department of Political Science and International Relations.

The Kroc School in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is pleased to announce the 2015 International Reporting Fellowship for USD students. The fellowship will provide a USD student with a travel grant of up to $2,000 to study and report on crises abroad. USD students at the junior level or above, graduate and professional students are eligible to apply.

• Learn more at an information session just prior to the film screening on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015, 5 p.m., KIPJ Room G. Details

• Learn more and apply