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In Light Film Festival 2017

Friday, April 07, 2017, 3:00 PM – Sunday, April 09, 2017, 6:00 PM

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Poster for the 2017 In Light Human Rights Documentary Film Festival. The top says:  InLight Human Rights Documentary Film Festival. In Light (Human Rights Documentary) Film Festival is a student-run festival aimed at promoting interaction between students, scholars, and practitioners who all share an investment in the many struggles for human rights occurring around the world. Our mission is to promote powerful films that speak to contemporary issues and to bring the knowledge and experience of a diverse group of filmmakers to the attention of the IU and Bloomington communities. For a full listing of all InLight Film Festival events, visit www.inlightfilmfestival.com.  Below the copy is a collage of film stills: A woman sitting along the highway holding a cane. Text says: The Silence of Others. October 10 - 7 p.m. Four figures standing on a mountain during sunset. A woman carrying a large bag over her back, walking in front of boulders. A person sitting next to a bag full of empty two-liter bottles. Text says: Eating Up Easter. October 11 - 4 pm Two people sitting on a staircase. A person behind them holds a skateboard. Text says: Minding the Gap. October 11 - 7 pm Closeup of a man smiling, with another man behind him. Two women getting their hair done in a beauty shop. A mirror reflection of a woman getting her hair done in a beauty shop. Text says: Chez Jolie Coiffure. October 12 - 4 pm A man confronting a protestor holding a picket sign and wearing a shirt that says IWW. Another man behind him yells. Text says: Bisbee '17. October 12 - 7 pm Seven men wearing cowboy hats, some holding shotguns, stand in a classroom.

The third annual In Light (Human Rights Documentary) Film Festival (ILFF) is aimed at promoting and supporting the intersections of human rights and ethnographic documentary films. ILFF was started by a group of graduate students interested in human rights and documentary film, in both theoretical and practical ways. ILFF was thus shaped by students for students and has two main pillars: Through new and powerful documentary films, as well as via academic events, the festival is meant to engage the undergraduate and graduate students and faculty members with professionals and scholars in the field of human-rights documentary filmmaking. As one of the few human rights documentary film festivals in the Midwest and one of the few in the world staffed solely by students and faculty, ILFF has a strong academic focus, meant not only to inform through films and debates, but also to educate and train through scholarly roundtables and master classes.

Documentary films have long been used as effective teaching aids and, at the same time, as tools for public debate on contemporary socio-political issues. By continuing our festival, we wish to create a bridge to facilitate dialogue between professionals in documentary film and scholars of all ages. Guest filmmakers/scholars will be present at each film screening to participate in a post-film discussion. Visit the ILFF website to learn more about the festival.

2017 Schedule

3 p.m. Walls/Muros: Alvaro Enciso, subject of the film, Wylie 005.

5 p.m.Café Waldluft: director Matthias Kossmehl and editor Andreas Nicolai, Wylie 005.

7 p.m. Roundtable “Screening the Refugee Crisis” with CDRP director Josh Malitsky (moderator), Wylie 005.

9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Master Class on Documentary Film in Wylie 005.

9 to 10:50 a.m. Part I with directors Johanna Sokolowski and Kate Trumbull-Lavelle, Ovarian Psycos

11:10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Part II with director Matthias Kossmehl and film editor Andreas Nicolai, Café Waldluft

6:30 p.m.Do Not Resist with producer Laura Hatrick, IU Cinema

9:30 p.m.Oriented, IU Cinema

3 p.m.Ovarian Psycos, IU Cinema

6 p.m.Fire at Sea, IU Cinema

2017 Sponsors

This series is sponsored by the Department of Anthropology; the School of Global and International Studies; the Center for the Study of Global Change; the departments of Political Science, Germanic Studies, and International Studies; the Borns Jewish Studies Program; the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society; the Center for Documentary Research and Practice; the IU Media School; Austen L. Parrish, Dean and James H. Rudy Professor of Law at Indiana University Maurer School of Law; and IU Cinema.

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