The Council on Foundations Film & Video
Festival, now in its 43rd year, showcases the
best in grantmaker-funded media and illustrates
philanthropic support for film and
media that addresses the important issues
affecting society, globally. Carefully created
for the annual conference audience, each film raises awareness and tries to inspire
viewers to action.
Saturday Night @ the Movies
The Reckoning: The Battle for the International
Criminal Court (Hampton Winner) by Pamela Yates, Peter Kinoy, and Paco de Onis.
Registration required; $10 for members of Grantmakers in Film and Electronic Media (GFEM) and $15 for non GFEM-members.
More than 120 countries united to form the International Criminal Court (ICC), the first permanent court created to prosecute perpetrators
of crimes against humanity, war
crimes, and genocide. The film follows ICC
Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo and his team for three years as he issues arrest warrants in
Uganda, Congo, Colombia, and Darfur.
Sunday Night @ the Movies
A Village Called Versailles (Hampton
Winner) by S. Leo Chiang.
Registration required; $10 for GFEM-members
and $15 for non GFEM-members.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, residents of Versailles, an isolated community in eastern New Orleans originally settled by Vietnamese “boat people,” return and rebuild before other flooded neighborhoods in New Orleans. Soon afterward, their homes are threatened again—this time by a new government- imposed toxic landfill just two miles away.
Anne & Emmett
By Janet Langhart CohenJanet Langhart Cohen’s groundbreaking new play Anne & Emmett features an imaginary conversation between the world’s most recognized Holocaust victim, fifteen-year-old Anne Frank, and a young black boy named Emmett Till, whose murder at age fourteen sparked the civil rights movement. This play represents the first exploration of the commonalities and parallels between their lives. A question and answer session with Janet Langhart Cohen and the actors directly follows the performance.
Note: All photography, audio-recording and video-recording are prohibited without prior approval from Langhart Communications.
VAN LEER LECTURE
This year’s lecturer is Sheela Patel, leader
of the Society for the Promotion of Area
Resource Centres (SPARC), an Indian civil
society organization. Under Patel's leadership,
SPARC has helped bring about the
construction of homes for more than
8,500 families, with programs in 70 cities
in India. The Van Leer Lecture was established
in 2005 as a partnership between
the Council on Foundations and the Van
Leer Group Foundation in the Netherlands,
after the foundation’s Executive Director
Rien van Gendt received the
Council’s Distinguished Grantmaker
Award that year. This event is free and
open to conference attendees.
Contact: Isabelle Mack,
isabelle.mack@cof.org, 703-879-0747