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American Outrage [NY Premiere] screening with Rightful Place [NY Premiere]
Series: Human Rights Watch International Film Festival 2008 [June 13 - 26]


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American Outrage [NY Premiere]
Beth Gage & George Gage, USA, 2007; 56m video

Carrie and Mary Dann are feisty, elderly Western Shoshone sisters who live and work in barren north central Nevada. Their ranch is part of 60 million acres recognized as Western Shoshone land by the U.S. in the 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley, subsequently claimed by the government as public land. In 1974, the U.S. sued the Dann sisters for trespassing. That set off a dispute that continued in the U.S. Supreme Court and eventually the United Nations.

Contrasting the Dann sisters’ personal lives with their political actions, American Outrage examines the government's use of millions of dollars to persecute and prosecute two elderly women.

Presented in association with American Indian Community House, www.aich.org, and The Film + Video Center of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, www.nativenetworks.si.edu/nn.htm.

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Rightful Place [NY Premiere]
Hakima Abbas & Yobo Rutin, Kenya/USA, 2007; 16m video.

In 1974, the Endorois community was evicted from their sacred lands by the Kenyan government to make way for a game reserve and tourist resort. After decades of inaction and harassment by successive governments, the Endorois community takes their claims to the highest regional human rights body, the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights. Rightful Place is an intimate film of a people in search of justice.




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