The International Film and Television Exchange, Inc.

in cooperation with the German Mission to the United Nations
and the American Council on Germany
Panel Discussion

SHAPING THE AIDS AGENDA

Albrecht von der Heyden, Minister Plenipotentiary, German Mission to the United Nations
Mark Sterling, Chief, HIV/AIDS Section, Program Division, UNICEF
Robert Blair, Advisor for Africa, Office of International Health, Dept. of State
European Union representative, tba
Dr. Desmond Johns, Director, UNAIDS, New York
Prof. Ruth Wedgwood, Yale & Johns Hopkins, Council on Foreign Relations, Moderator

Wednesday, May 7, 2003, 7:30 - 9:30 PM
Panel Discussion followed by reception

German Mission to the United Nations
871 United Nations Plaza, between 48th and 49th Street, New York City

May 8, Thursday
Goethe Institute / Internationes 1014 5th Avenue @ 83rd Street

9:00 AM
Breakfast

10:00 AM
1. BODY AND SOUL, South Africa 2001, Melody Emmett dir. (source of rental/acquisition)
Religious denominations and the AIDS crisis

11:30 AM
2. ODO YA: Life With With Aids, Brazil 1998, Tanya Cypriano, (source of rental/acquisition)
Community Response to AIDS

12:30 PM
3. NIGHT STOP, Mozambique, 2002, Lizinia Azueda. (source of rental/acquisition)
Trucking, sex workers, and AIDS

12:30 - 1:30 PM
break

1:30 - 2:00 PM
4. PANDEMIC, USA 2002, Rory Kennedy. (source of rental/acquisition)
Version for policy makers' of documentary on global AIDS perspectives

2:00 - 3:30 PM
5. STATE OF DENIAL, USA 2002, Elaine Epstein. (source of rental/acquisition)
Denial of AIDS crisis by South African government (will be aired this fall on PBS)

3:45 - 4:15 PM
6. 6000 A DAY, South Africa 2001, Philip Brooks. (source of rental/acquisition)
Chronicle and examination of socio-economic and politial barriers to solving the AIDS crisis

4:30 - 5:30 PM
7. SHOUTING SILENT, Zambia 2002, Xoliswa Sithole. (source of rental/acquisition)
Girls growing up and coping without mothers killed by AIDS

7:30 PM PANEL: The HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Africa and the Film Community

Xoliswa Sithole, Nayanaya Productions, South Africa
Cornelius Moore, California Newsreel. SF
Brenda Rooney, Producer/Director, Canada
Martin Smith, Producer/Director, Rain Media NY and WGBH

9:00 Reception / Buffet

 

May 9, Friday
Goethe Institute / Internationes

9:00 AM Breakfast

10:00 - 11:00 AM
8. THE SILENT KILLER: AIDS in South Africa, Canada 2000, Marika Griesel.
Patients, health workers and policy makers reporting the problem
(source of rental/acquisition)


SILENT KILLER:
AIDS in South Africa

(Canada)

credit: Filmakers Library

11:00 - 11:30 AM
9. HEAVY TRAFFIC, South Africa 2001, Kgomotsa Matsunyame. (source of rental/acquisition)
Soweto funeral parlor operators and the clients they serve

11:30 - 12:00
10. GROWING UP IN A DAY, Zambia 2001, Phie Ambe. (source of rental/acquisition)
Being orphaned

12:00 - 12:30 PM
11. NISHA, India 2003, Ducco Telegen. (source of rental/acquisition)
Little girl learning that she has AIDS from her infected mother

1:00 - 2:00 PM break

2:00 - 3:00 PM
12. CONDOMS, FISH & CIRCUS TRICKS, Canada 2002, Brenda and Robert Rooney. (source of rental/acquisition)
Intimate presentation of people in Malawi, South Africa and Zambia dying of AIDS and being cared for.

3:00 - 4:00 PM
13. TWO DOLLARS WITH OR WITHOUT A CONDOM, Ethiopia 1996, Leyla Assai Tengroth
Child prostitution and the spread of AIDS
(source of rental/acquisition)

4:00 - 4:30 PM
14. COMING TO SAY GOODBYE, USA 2003, Maryknoll Productions. (source of rental/acquisition)
Stories of AIDS in Africa

5:00 - 7:00
15. PANDEMIC: FACING AIDS, USA 2002, Rory Kennedy (source of rental/acquisition)
Global Perspectives on AIDS - case studies

7:30 PM
Panel: Socio-Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Sahara Africa and Development Strategies

Jennifer Seymour Whitaker, Council on Foreign Relations, Moderator
Clarence Dias, Center for Law in Development
Dr. Ruth Engo, UN ECOSOC, Africa Division
Jennifer Klot, HIV/AIDS Coordinator, Social Science Research Council

Reception/Buffet

May 10, Saturday
Goethe Institute / Internationes

9:00 AM
Breakfast

10:00 - 11:00 AM
16. PATIENT ABUSE, South Africa 2001, Jack Lewis. (source of rental/acquisition)
Introduction to the activist grass root organization Treatment Action Campaign, TAC

11:00 - 11:30 AM
17. SOUL CITY, Segment of acclaimed issue oriented television drama dealing with AIDS, South African Broadcasting, 2003 (source of rental/acquisition)

11:30 - 12:00 AM
18. A FIGHTING SPIRIT, Zimbabwe 2001, Leo Phiri. (source of rental/acquisition)
AIDS infected boxing hero fights for removing the AIDS stigma

12:00 - 1:00 PM
19. BREAKING THE SILENCE, Canada 2002, Denise Withers. (source of rental/acquisition)
Focus on Canadian program helping Africans to help themselves

20) 1:00 - 1:40 PM
POSITIVELY WOMEN, India 1997, Nalini SIngh, candid representation how ignorance and the opressed status of women leads to the spread of AIDS… and what activists do about it …(source of rental/acquisition)

1:00 - 1:30 Buffet at the Goethe Institute

1:30 - 2:30 PM
Round Table: What can be done?

Dr. Michelle Cleary, AFRUS Monica Sharma, UNDP
Joseph Annan, UNDP Reverend
Esther Phiri, Shepard City, Zambia.
Dr. Caroline Njuki, United Methodist Church
Priya Bery, Program Mgr., Policy and Research. Global Business Coalition On HIV/ AIDS

Long documentaries and feature films

2:30 - 4:00 PM
21) ABC AFRICA, Iran 2002, Abbas Kiarostami. (source of rental/acquisition)
Taking care of orphans from the Uganda civil war and the massive AIDS epidemic

4:15 - 5:45 PM
22) EVERYONE'S CHILD, Zimbabwe 1996, Tsitsi Dangaremba. Feature. (source of rental/acquisition)
Story of four siblings whose parents died of AIDS with the goal of reaffirming the African tradition that an orphan is 'Everyone's Child'

 

Sunday May 11
Goethe Institute / Internationes

9:00 - 9:30 AM Breakfast

9:30 - 11:00 AM
23) THE DAY MY GOD DIED, USA 2002, Andrew Levine (source of rental/acquisition)
Child trafficking to brothels in India, and AIDS

11:30- 12:15 PM
24) TWO DOLLARS WITH OR WITHOUT A CONDOM, Ethiopia 1996, Leyla Assai Tengroth
Child prostitution and the spread of AIDS (source of rental/acquisition)

12:15- 12:45 PM
25) HOUSE OF LOVE, Namibia 2001, Cecile Moller (source of rental/acquisition)
Exploration of the life of sex workers in the small port town of Walvis Bay

1:00 - 2:00 PM
26) DONKA: X-RAY OF AN AFRICAN HOSPITAL, Belgium 1998 Thierry Michel, Critical Examination
(source of rental/acquisition)

2:00 - 2 :30 PM
Buffet at Goethe

2:30 - 3:30
Round Table: Spreading Aids - Socio-Cultural and Infrastructural Context

Prof. Ida Susser, Dept. of Anthropology, Hunter College CUNY
Dr. Margret Mbogoni, UN Dept. of Economic and Social Affairs
Clarence Dias, Center for Law in Development

Monday May 12
President's Conference Room in cooperation with
the Graduate Social Research program and the HC Center on AIDS, Drugs, and Community Health

6:30 - 10 PM
Alternative Perspectives on AIDS in the U.S.A.

7:00 - 8 PM
Screening of THE GIFT, a documentary on sex practices in gay communities and the new phenomenon of intentional AIDS infection (source of rental/acquisition)

8:00 - 9:00 PM
Panel:

Louise Hogarth, director/ producer
Steven Hillyer
or Tim Marmack, tbc,
Beatrice Krauss,
Exec. Director, HC Center on AIDS
Claus Mueller
, GSR/Media program, moderator

9:00 - 10:00 PM
Reception

If you would like to attend the SHAPING THE AIDS AGENDA event on Wednesday, May 7, please register and bring photo ID to gain entrance to the event. Photo ID is not necessary at the Goethe Institute events but reservations for each session are necessary.
The Exchange has organized annual screening conferences on development issues and their impact on the global community since 1986 presenting close to five hundred documentaries and feature films and about eighty distinguished speakers. "The Terror of HIV/AIDS in Africa" continues our emphasis on Africa covered to date in conferences on policy issues such as "Children at War", "Islamic Perspectives on Society", "Migration: The South Comes North", and "The Survival of Children in the Development Process". No entry fees are charged for productions submitted, nor is there a charge for participating in part or all of the conference if you have been invited.
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