Afghan Massacre:: Convoy of Death (film) in Chicago 8/14 and 8/15

[IkeWarnedUs]

AFGHAN MASSACRE: CONVOY OF DEATH
With Guest Speaker John Heffernan - Physicians for Human Rights


Thursday, August 14 and Friday, August 15, 2003


Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago Media Action, and Not in Our Name are pleased to
present these special screenings of award-winning director Jamie Doran's
Afghan Massacre: Convoy of Death (2002, 50 mins., UK.) with guest speaker
John Heffernan, Senior Communications Associate with Physicians for Human
Rights.

This unsettling documentary tells of the horrific forced journey undertaken
in November of 2001 by thousands of Taliban prisoners of war who surrendered
to America's Afghan allies after the siege of Kunduz. Packed into metal
shipping containers and driven by truck through the desert for up to four
days, with no air, food or water, a grotesque mass killing of many of the
POWs - an estimated 2000 to 3000 - resulted. The bodies were then dumped
into large, bulldozed pits. Why have official international investigations
been stymied? What has been the U.S. role? Afghan
Massacre: Convoy of Death raises troubling and unanswered questions.

Afghan Massacre was created over ten months in extremely dangerous
circumstances: eyewitnesses were threatened and subsequently killed, the
film crew was forced into hiding and the film's researcher was savagely
beaten. He was recently awarded the 2002 Rory Peck Award for Hard News and
the SONY Award. The film has been nominated for a Royal Television Society
Award for Current Affairs. It has been broadcast in a number of countries,
but thus far not in the U.S.

Guest speaker John Heffernan is the Senior Communications Associate, Media
Relations, for Physicians for Human Rights, the group which discovered the
mass graves near Dasht-e-Leili in northern Afghanistan. He will tell of his
personal experiences in Afghanistan and his major role in the August, 2002
Newsweek magazine cover story that resulted in the UN's theoretical
acceptance of an investigation. Additional information on Physicians for
Human Rights can be found at www.phrusa.org.


Afghan Massacre shows twice:

Thursday, August 14, 7:00pm at the Skokie Public Library, 5215 Oakton,
Skokie
Open to the public/$7 donation suggested
(The Skokie Public Library is 1 block west of Lincoln & Oakton; take the #97
bus. Directions: call [phone])
For additional program information: [phone]


Friday, August 15, 8:00pm at Columbia College (Ferguson Theater), 600 S.
Michigan Ave., Chicago
Admission $7 general; $3 Chicago Filmmakers members
For additional program information: [phone]

[Bushfire]

1. Kick

It will leave you forever questioning what our role is in Afghanistan, and what our leaders really want covered up for their profits. It's a short, but great documentary.

[beanball]

2. The truth shall set you free

But we didn't know! isn't that what they said in germany after ww2? Wake up america.

[arcane1]

3. wow...

I had no idea there were movies about this...

sadly, there was a highway of death in the first Gulf WAr, too....


wishing I was in CHI to see this!

[monkeyboy]

4. Any idea if this is to be shown in San Francisco?

Is there a tour of the U.S.?


On Edit: Found the following at http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/26/1632226

To purchase an audio or video copy of this entire program, call
1 [phone].

[IkeWarnedUs]

5. Buying the video of the movie

The phone number in post #4 is for copies of Democracy Now programs.

The video of Afghan Massacre: Convoy of Death is available through the film company's website. It is Atlantic Celtic Film Corporation, in the UK and the price is in pounds (19.95 pounds - I don't have the symbol on my keyboard).

Link: http://www.acftv.com/products.asp?catid=5

Or contact them by e-mail at [e-mail]

[Andy_Stephenson]

6. Interview with Jamie Doran, director of Massacre at Mazar

Jamie Doran is an award-winning documentary filmmaker who has been producing films for the past 22 years. He spent seven years working for the BBC before establishing his own independent television company. He has spent much of the last eight months working in Afghanistan on film projects. The WSWS conducted this interview with Doran on June 14.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/jun2002/dora-j17.shtml