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Amy Goodman to moderate post-screening discussion of "The Wanted 18"

New York, NY

June 13, 2015 | Saturday | 6:30 pm

Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater

165 West 65th Street
north side between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10023 ( see map )
The Human Rights Watch Film Festival presents The Wanted 18 and a post-screening discussion. Through a clever mix of stop motion animation and interviews, The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing true story: the Israeli army’s pursuit of 18 cows, whose independent milk production on a Palestinian collective farm was declared “a threat to the national security of the state of Israel.” Recreating the story of the “Wanted 18” from the perspectives of the Beit Sahour activists, Israeli military officials, and the cows, Palestinian artist Amer Shomali and veteran Canadian director Paul Cowan create an enchanting, inspirational tribute to the ingenuity and power of grassroots activism.

After the screening, Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman will moderate a discussion with Julia Bacha, Creative Director, Just Vision; Ina Fichman, producer; Amer Shomali, director; and Sarah Leah Whitson, Executive Director, MENA division, Human Rights Watch.

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Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 1,400 public television and radio stations worldwide.

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard honored Goodman with the 2014 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence Lifetime Achievement Award....