"Little Birds" is the documentary film about war on Iraq produced by Japanese photo journalist, Watai.
This is the best film to know truth about what was happened on Iraqi citizen on Iraq war.
I'm so happy to know that this movie will be showed in America.
Please go to see and spread this masterpiece to all over the world...!
▼January 25, Thursday
DePaul University
Screening and Q&A
Place: Munroe Hall 114/115/116, 2312 N. Clifton Ave,
Chicago
Time: 7-9 pm
Contact: Miho Matsugu
mmatsugu@depaul.edu
Department of Modern Languages
Japanese Studies Program
802 West Belden Ave.
Chicago, IL 60614
Tel: 773-325-8355
Fax: 773-325-8355
▼January 26, Friday
Chicago University
Screening and Q&A
Pm3:00-6:00
Cobb Hall 101
5811 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60637
Art and Politics in East Asia Workshop
Human Rights Program
Contact :Chun Chun Ting
ccting@uchicago.edu
▼January 27, Saturday
Humanist Hall
390 27th Street, Oakland
7:00pm
Screening & Talk with WATAI Takeharu and Carolyn Ho
(mother of Lt. Ehren
Watada*)
General admission: $8.00 / Students, Seniors, AFF members
$6.00
Film presented by Arab Film Festival: www.aff.org
Endorsed by Lt. Ehren Watada support committee:
www.thankyoult.org
Organizer, Masami Endo: masami_endo@msn.com
▼January 28, Sunday
Women's Building
3543 18th Street
San Francisco
7:00pm
Screening & Talk with WATAI Takeharu and Carolyn Ho
(mother of Lt. Ehren
Watada*)
General admission: $8.00 / Students, Seniors, AFF members
$6.00
Film presented by Arab Film Festival: www.aff.org
Endorsed by Lt. Ehren Watada support committee:
www.thankyoult.org
Organizer, Masami Endo: masami_endo@msn.com
*Lt.Ehren Watada became the first commissioned officer to
publicly refuse
deployment to the Iraq war. Lt.Watda faces court-martial
charges and six
years of prison if found guilty. For more information:
www.thankyoult.org
▼Jan. 31 Austin Texas
Screening + Q&A
Place: Alamo Drafthouse -Alamo Downtown Theater
409 Colorado St. Downtown, Austin, TX
(512) 476-1320
http://www.originalalamo.com/downtown/frames.asp
Time: 7pm
Contact: Pat Youngblood
pat@thirdcoastactivist.org
The Third Coast Activist Resource Center
http://ThirdCoastActivist.org
(512)844-9362
▼Feb. 1st (Thur.) Texas
University of Texas
Lecture by WATAI Takeharu at Robert Jensen's (Professor of
Journalism) class
Start: 8am
Contact:
Robert Jensen,
Professor of Journalism
University of Texas
rjensen@uts.cc.utexas.edu
▼Feb. 7 New York
Screening + Q&A
5:30PM - 8PM
７７７ United Nations Plaza
(Corner of 44th St and 1st Ave, in from of UN HQ)
New York, NY 10017
2nd floor
Contact: Peace Boat US
TEL: 212-687-7214
MAIL：info@peaceboat-us.org
▼Feb. 8, 9 Cornell Unv. (NY)
Feb. 8 Lecture by WATAI Takeharu
Place: Cornell Unv.
Time: 16:30 (90 min.)
Feb. 9 Screening + Q&A
Place: Cornell Unv.
Time: 19:30
Contact: David Patt
dp228@IS.Cornell.edu
Director of Outreach
Cornell East Asia Program
140 Uris Hall
Ithaca, NY 14850-7601
Tel: 607-255-8366
Fax: 607-255-1388
www.einaudi.cornell.edu/eastasia
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INVITATION FOR SCREENING OF Little Birds
http://www.littlebirds.net/eng/index.htm
A WATAI TAKEHARU FILM
How many children have you killed in Iraq?
A documentary on the children and families of Iraq
FOLLOWED BY DIRECTOR'S TALK + Q&A
(SCREENING INFO.) “ The best and most empathetic
global visual window
on the American and British led war in Iraq has not been
the work of an
American or a British journalist, but a film by an
award-winning
thirty-five-year-old Japanese video journalist, Watai
Takeharu.
” - Kyoto
Journal
"At a time when the Iraq war continues to be a
defining issue on the
American scene, it is ironic that the most powerful and
uncompromising
documentary on the subject remains almost entirely unknown
and unseen in
this country."
- Gregory Elich, author of Strange Liberators:
Militarism, Mayhem, and
the Pursuit of Profit.
Winner of the 2005 Human Rights Award at the Locarno
International
Film Festival, the independently-produced documentary,
"Little Birds" is a
result of 123 hours of footage shot in Iraq over a span of
a year and a half
by Japan's award-winning video journalist, Takeharu Watai.
Edited down to
102 minutes and released in Japanese theaters last year,
the film has since
then been scree
freelance journalist,
Watai began filming on March, 2003, before the invasion of
Iraq. On the
surface all is calm on the streets of Baghdad but from
there, as the aerial
attacks begin and destruction engulfs the country, the
viewer is forced to
confront a reality far different from what the mainstream
media around the
world has reported.
"Don't cry, Daddy, we've become birds in heaven."
These are the words found on Ali Saqban's children's
grave, and it is
where this documentary received its name.
WINNER OF:
2005 Locarno International Film Festival Winner of
Human Rights Award
OFFICIAL SELECTION :
2005 International Thessaloniki Documentary Film
Festival
2005 Montreal International Film Festival
2005 Hong Kong International Film Festival
2006 Singapore International Film Festival
2006 Raindance International Film Festival
Director Profile: WATAI Takeharu
Born in 1971 Japan. Watai is a freelance video
journalist and a
member of Asia Press International, a news agency
consisting of a group of
independent journalists. His extensive experience
covering conflict-ridden
areas around the globe include reports of the crisis in
Sudan, East Timor,
Afghanistan and Iraq. For his reporting activities, he
received the 2003
Vaughn-Ueda Awards Special Prize and the 41st Galaxy
Awards Excellent
Reporting Prize. In 2005 he published a book by the same
title, “Little
Birds.”
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