Since ART WORKS Projects (AWP) launched its work as a human rights arts advocacy organization in Chicago over a dozen years ago, it has established a significant global footprint. Using public art to reach hundreds of thousands of viewers, AWP has inspired audience members on five continents to support an end to grave human rights […]
An excerpt of The Prosecutors along with an expert panel discussion was presented at the 2018 Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court. Moderated by Alejandra Vicente, Daniela Kravetz, Eric Witte, and film director Leslie Thomas discussed the challenge and opportunities presented by national prosecution of conflict related sexual violence. The event was […]
Please join ART WORKS Projects for a panel discussion on December 12, 2018 - Universal Health Coverage Day. Presented in tandem with AWP's current exhibition Women of Togo by photographer Zoe Rain, this discussion will consider the current state of universal health coverage and methods to creating more equity and accessibility when it comes to […]
ART WORKS Projects is pleased to announce Deported: An American Division will be on view at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor from January 15 -31, 2019. Rachel Woolf, 2018 winner of the AWP Emerging Lens competition, captures moments in the days before Lourdes Salazar Bautista’s deportation hearing […]
AWP is pleased to announce the panel discussion "One Family's Story: People, Policy, and the Politics of Deportation," presented in tandem with the exhibition of Deported: An American Division at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Join Rachel Woolf, Independent visual journalist; Emilio Gutiérrez Soto, Knight-Wallace Fellow, Mexican journalist and asylum seeker; Laura Sanders, […]
ART WORKS Projects (AWP) is pleased to announce its Open Call for the 2019 Annual Emerging Lens Mentorship Program. The 2019 competition is open to young photographers currently working on a human rights, social justice or humanitarian issue. Although the entrant must be a resident of the United States, the project may focus on international […]
On International Women's Day 2019 we were honored to present an excerpt of The Prosecutors along with two panel discussions at the UN International Residual Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals. Sponsored by the Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice and the Office of the Gender Focal Point at the UN IRMCT, the event included conversations with […]
The Prosecutors: Excerpt screening and discussion.
The Prosecutors: The War Crimes Research Office (WCRO) and Ferencz International Justice Initiative of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum will host a screening of The Prosecutors at American University Washington College of Law. The event will feature introductions by WCRO Director Susana SáCouto and the film’s director, Leslie Thomas, followed by a screening of the […]
The Prosecutors will be featured at the Festival of Tolerance in Ljubljana, Slovenia. See website for details.
The Prosecutors: Screening & panel discussion with Dara Kay Cohen, Ford Foundation Associate Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; Jocelyn Kelly, founding director for Harvard Humanitarian Initiative’s (HHI) Women in War program; and Leslie Thomas, film director. Please click here for details.
This feature length documentary tells the story of three dedicated lawyers who fight to ensure that rape in war does not go unpunished. Filmed over five years on three continents, it takes viewers from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Bosnia and Herzegovina to Colombia on the long journey towards justice. (2018, dir. Leslie Thomas, […]