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, […]
The Prosecutors: Screening & panel discussion with Leslie Thomas, Director; Kim Thuy Seelinger, Director, Sexual Violence Program, Human Rights Center, Berkeley School of Law; and Patricia Viseur Sellers, Special Advisor for Gender, Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Court. Moderated by Steve Bynum. Click here for details.
19 June has been International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict Situations (proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly) since 2015. In The Prosecutors, director Leslie Thomas talks about this subject. War is accompanied by rape and looting. Thomas asks the right question - why we should tolerate sexual violence as a […]
The Prosecutors: Screening and panel at the Congo International Film Festival. Please check back for details.
ART WORKS Projects showed The Prosecutors at DokuFest on August 5th, 2019. The documentary's screening was followed by a panel discussion with Drita Hajdari, War Crimes Prosecutor at Special Prosecution Office of Kosovo, Irena Cahani – Actress, Sibel Halimi – Sociologist.
Please join ART WORKS Projects for the opening of our fifth annual Emerging Lens exhibition Life After a Hate Crime by photographer Megan Farmer. Farmer will be joined by Dr. Iván Arenas (see bio below) to discuss this project and take questions from the audience. To learn more about the Emerging Lens Mentorship Program, click […]