TCNJ News
For Immediate Release
February 27, 2009
Professor's film screened at internationl human rights film festival
EWING, NJ ... The Montreal Human Rights Film Festival will host the international premiere of the film Just Another War by Communication Studies Professor Lorna Ann Johnson. The film, which is also co-edited by recent alumnus Genevieve Faust `08, will screen at the Cinema du Parc in Montreal on March 15th and will also be in competition for the Audience Award. The film serves an example of the Teacher-Scholar model practiced at TCNJ in which faculty work with and mentor students on their current area of research or creative work.
Just Another War profiles two women that are directly impacted by the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Through the stories of these two women, the film highlights the price paid by individuals for a government's decision to go to war. The film also contrasts these stories with the personal experience of the filmmaker herself, who, disengaged from the war and about to give birth to a son wonders if her government will risk her son's life to fight just another war in the future. The film has previously screened at the 2008 Athen’s Film Festival. The film has been called "an important contribution to films on the war." Johnson will be on hand to present the film in Montreal.
The Montreal Human Rights Film Festival is a member of the Human Rights Films Network, (HRFN) a international body of festivals established in Prague in 2004 to promote committed socially aware cinema. The HRFN works to increase the distribution of films dedicated to human rights in festivals and to make those films accessible to the largest public, The films selected for the Montreal Festival “celebrate the great and small gestures of solidarity and invites the audience to continue its actions for peace, justice and human rights.” The full schedule of films will be available on the festival website by February 25th, at www.ffdpm.com
The festival’s sponsors include by the National Film Board of Canada and Amnesty International. For additional information please contact Lorna Ann Johnson at 609.771.2450.
