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GIRL MODEL Screening

Date: Thursday, December 6, 2012 - 6:30pm - 9:00pm

Location: Wechsler Theater, Mary Graydon Center 315, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20016

Human trafficking is increasingly being exposed as an egregious human rights abuse from which the United States is not immune. Event sponsors, POVPolaris Project and the Center for Social Media are encouraging media makers and human rights advocates to join us for a screening of "Girl Model" followed by an essential conversation about how these violations can be stopped.

Described as "a haunted glimpse of exploited youth" by Variety Magazine, "Girl Model" shines a light on the ugly, exploitative side of the beauty business. The documentary, by David Redmon & Ashley Sabin, follows a 13-year-old girl from a village in Siberia as she is scouted at a modeling cattle call and taken to work in Japan. 

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HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE: World AIDS Day Screening

Date: Monday, December 3, 2012 - 6:00pm - 9:00pm

Location: Ward Building, Room 1, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington DC 20016

Join the Center and 10 other departments across the American University campus for a World AIDS Day screening of the documentary "How to Survive a Plague"--most recently recipient of Best Documentary at the 2012 Gotham Independent Film Awards.

After the screening, the audience will participate in a live Google+ Hangout with filmmaker David France, legendary activist Peter Staley, and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Angelique Kidjo to commemorate this 25th annual World AIDS Day occasion.

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Visiting Photographer: Larry Towell

Image by Larry Towell

Camera as Catalyst

Date: Thursday, November 15, 2012 - 6:30pm - 8:00pm

Location: Wechsler Theater, 3rd Floor, Mary Graydon Center, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20016

Fotoweek DCPhotojournalists play a key role in visual expression of public media and information. They provide storytelling through intimate and profound still images. The Center for Social Media and the School of Communication  welcome Magnum Photographer Larry Towell to our Camera As Catalyst series - also a FotoWeek DC event.

If there's one theme that connects all my work, I think it's that of land-lessness; how land makes people into who they are and what happens to them when they lose it and thus lose their identities. ~Larry Towell

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Benevolent Media Pitch Night

Partner Event

Date: Monday, November 5, 2012 - 6:30pm - 10:30pm

Location: nclud, 1203 19th Street NW, 3rd Floor, Washington, D.C. 20036

Benevolent Media, one of the Center's community partners, is organizing a Pitch Night to give "benevolent media" creators a chance to showcase their pitches and proposals in captivating 5- to 7-minute presentations, for a chance to win cash prizes to make their idea a reality.

Join us for a night of sharing about how to make the world a better place through storytelling and design.

Pitches include and explanation of the cause, the community to be served, and the form of media to be used to create positive and lasting social or environmental change. Perhaps poetry for social justice, photography for nature conversation or filmmaing for women's empowerment? Applicants with the most compelling proposals have been invited to pitch their idea in front of a live audience November 5 in Washington, D.C.

RSVP: http://benmedpitch.eventbrite.com/#

 

WHEN:
Monday, November 5
6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. - FEAST
8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. - PITCH
9:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. - PARTY
WHERE:
nclud
1203 19th Street NW, 3rd Floor
Washington, D.C. 20036
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"Untold History" Advance Screening

Untold History of the United States

Partner Event

Date: Wednesday, November 7, 2012 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm

Location: Ward Building, Rooms 1 & 2, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20016

How would your views change if you knew the untold stories of history that shaped our politics and society?

Join the College of Arts & Sciences for an advance episode screeing "Untold History of the United States," a ten part documentery series airing on Showtime by Academy award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone and AU History Professor Peter Kuznick.

Untold HistoryWhat Showtime Says about the Series:
This ten-part documentary series looks back at human events that at the time went under reported, but that crucially shaped America's unique and complex history over the 20th century. From the atomic bombing of Japan to the Cold War and the fall of Communism, this in-depth, surprising, and totally riveting series will hold your attention for all ten episodes.

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