When a documentary opens with an excerpt from a 911 call, you know instantly that you’re going to be in for a difficult experience. Such is the case with Katia Maguire and April Hayes’ feature, which recently received its world premiere at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. Chronicling the years-long efforts of a mother to strengthen the legal rights of victims of domestic violence, Home Truth is a harrowing and deeply moving portrait of a woman determined not to let her children’s deaths be in vain.
The above mentioned call came from Jessica Gonzales (now Lenahan) in 1999 in...
The above mentioned call came from Jessica Gonzales (now Lenahan) in 1999 in...
- 6/29/2017
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Open up any newspaper on any given day, and each headline will be best described as “here’s another way in which we live in divisive times.” Be it something as global as the rise of jingoism under the guise of “populism” or as specific as the fact that people in Flint, Michigan are still without clean drinking water, human rights are being challenged across the globe on a daily basis. And if politicians won’t speak for those without voices, the Human Rights Watch Film Festival is here to show that filmmakers will pick up the slack.
Back once again for its 2017 series (its 28th year), The Hrwff 2017 begins on June 9 and will run until the 18th, and includes 21 feature documentaries and panel discussions that hope to shine a light on atrocities taking place in countries across the planet.
Opening this year’s festival is Zaradasht Ahmed’s Nowhere To Hide.
Back once again for its 2017 series (its 28th year), The Hrwff 2017 begins on June 9 and will run until the 18th, and includes 21 feature documentaries and panel discussions that hope to shine a light on atrocities taking place in countries across the planet.
Opening this year’s festival is Zaradasht Ahmed’s Nowhere To Hide.
- 6/9/2017
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
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