Conference, Screening

Rwanda—Understanding Conflict through Film PART I: Hotel Rwanda, with director Terry George

May 4, 2006

6:00–8:00pm ET

The New School, Swayduck Auditorium

Hotel Rwanda is director Terry George’s graphic, harrowing and widely honored film based on the true life heroism of Paul Rusesabagina during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The screening will be followed by a question and answer session between George and Carol Wilder, Associate Dean and Chair, Department of Media Studies and Film, The New School.

Participants
Terry George, filmmaker
Carol Wilder, Chair, Department of Media Studies and Film, The New School

Presented as part of the 2006 Dorothy H. Hirshon Film Festival.

These events are presented as part of the Vera List Center’s program cycle on “Considering Forgiveness.”

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Rwanda—Understanding Conflict through Film PART I: Hotel Rwanda, with director Terry George

May 4, 2006

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