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SF Panelist’s Experience in Afghanistan’s Hunger Strike

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Abigail Disney, moderator and member of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists, Jennifer Mirren, and Anasuya Sengupta, Regional Program Director, Asia/Oceania, Global Fund for Women

Humaira Ghilzai was a panelist for the San Francisco Community Cinema screening of Peace Unveiled, one of the episodes of the groundbreaking Women, War & Peace series, which aired on PBS. She joined series producer Abigail Disney, moderator and member of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists Jennifer Mirren, and Anasuya Sengupta, Regional Program Director, Asia/Oceania for the Global Fund for Women. Humaira wrote to us recently about the activism of Afghan parliamentarian Simeen Barakzai, who was on her 12th day of an 18-day hunger strike in Afghanistan to protest allegations of election fraud. Barakazai, mother to three small boys, was the first person to use hunger striking as a form of government protest there.

Cyntoia’s Life: Through a Classroom Lens

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Seniors at Impact Academy screen the Independent Lens doc Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story

Last week, ITVS hosted a live chat with Dan Birman, the director of Me Facing Life: Cyntoia’s Story, and the seniors at Impact Academy High School in Hayward, CA. Julie Galender will graduate from Impact this year and was a former intern with ITVS. Julie helped organize the live chat and offered CC her thoughts on the discussion.

Recently, I had the opportunity to intern for the Independent Television Service (ITVS).  My time working at the San Francisco organization got me really interested in watching documentaries and I wanted to share my excitement with all my friends.

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Environmentalists Talk Trash in the Bay Area

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It was a packed house at the Garbage Dreams screening

On Wednesday, January 27, 2011 Garbage Dreams was screened at Oakland’s Asian Cultural Center. The screening was packed by audience members from every demographic and every age group, including an entire fifth grade class from the Lighthouse Community Charter School. Audience members were struck by the degree to which the Zaballeen managed to find a use for everything. Many attendees were inspired to integrate this consideration into their own lives and think more about the value of the things they view as trash. The screening was followed by an exciting discussion featuring panelists, Monica Wilson, International Co-coordinator at the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA), Aaron Ableman, Co-Founder of Communitree, and Ambessa Cantave, Co-Founder of Grind for the Green and Oakland Climate Justice Activist. Following is a video including interviews with panelist, Ambessa Cantave and a few of the audience members. A week before this screening, on Tuesday, January 19th, the San Francisco Main Library also hosted a screening of Garbage Dreams.

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