Village Voice - Truth and Tragedy at "Human Rights Watch 2009" Festival

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Truth and Tragedy at "Human Rights Watch 2009" Festival

By Ed Gonzalez

Tuesday, June 9th 2009 at 1:53pm

Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
June 11 through 25
Walter Reade Theater

EXCERPT from the article:

The focus of Tapologo's equally enraged lens is the manner in which deeply ingrained patriarchal attitudes drive South Africa's HIV pandemic. Filmmakers Gabriela and Sally Gutiérrez Dewar peer into the wounded heart of a region where 50 percent of women are infected with HIV and a courageous network known as Tapologo tries to bring dignity to lives that have known none. The pain these women feel as their bodies increasingly betray them is brutal, but what lingers most is the documentary's stinging indictment of the Catholic Church's stance on AIDS and sexuality, ironically communicated via the heartache and fury felt by one of the church's foot soldiers: a bishop working closely with Tapologo.

Estreno de TAPOLOGO en Barcelona; 17a edición de la Mostra Internacional de films de dones de Barcelona

17a edición de la Mostra Internacional de films de dones de Barcelona
(del 11 al 21 de junio de 2009).

PANORAMA DOCUMENTALES

TAPOLOGO

Proyección: jueves 18 de junio, 19 h – Espai Bonnemaison

http://mostra.dracmagic.cat/esp/M01S03A13.html

Una de las directoras, Gabriela Gutierrez Dewar, estará presente.

programme and tickets on sale for TAPOLOGO screenings at the NY Human Rights Watch Film festival

The NY Human Rights Watch International Film Festival programme is now up, to read about the TAPOLOGO screenings (and any other films!) please check the following links:

http://www.hrw.org/en/iff/tapologo
http://www.hrw.org/en/iff/new-york

Tickets can be purchased following these links:
https://tickets.filmlinc.com/php/calendar.php?month=6&day=23&year=2009&sid=&cmode=0&org=#11769

https://tickets.filmlinc.com/php/calendar.php?month=6&day=24&year=2009&sid=&cmode=0&org=#11770

TAPOLOGO screenings in Buenos Aires, 11ª Edición del Festival Internacional DerHumALC –

The TAPOLOGO screenings will be held on:
Las proyecciones de Tapologo en Buenos Aires serán:

Sunday 31 de mayo/May - 20hs: ArteCinema (Salta 1620)
Sunday 7 de junio/June - 18hs: Cine Tita Merello (Suipacha 442)

CONFIRMED TAPOLOGO SCREENINGS THIS SPRING

CUBA:
FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DEL CINE POBRE DE HUMBERTO SOLÁS
http://www.cubacine.cult.cu/cinepobre/
13th to the 19 th of April

MEXICO:
3er FESTIVAL DE LA MEMORIA EN TEPOZTLÁN
festivalmemoria.blogspot.com
8th to the 15th of May

NEW ZEALAND:
2009 Human Rights Film Festival New Zealand
http://www.humanrightsfilmfest.net.nz/
8th of May to the 6th of June


ARGENTINA:
MARFICI; Festival Internacional de Cine de mar de Plata,
http://www.marfici.com, 02 al 09 de Mayo

International Film Festival on Human Rights DerHumALC
http://www.derhumalc.org.ar
Buenos Aires: 27th of May to the 7th of June, 2009.


U.S.A:
NEW YORK HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH FILM FESTIVAL
http://www.hrw.org/en/iff/new-york
June 11 - 25, 2009 at the Walter Reade Theater of the Film Society of Lincoln Center.


SPAIN:
MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE FILMS DE DONES, BARCELONA
http://www.mostrafilmsdones.cat/
11th to the 21st of June, 2009


GERMANY:
Instituto Cervantes Berlin, Cine en Español:
Babylon Kino, Mo. 29. Juni
Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 30, 10178 Berlin
http://www.cervantes.de/nueva/de/cultura/programm?event=2009-04-06&month=4&year=2009

Tapologo (UK premiere) London Human Rights Watch Film festival

Tapologo (UK premiere)

A moving story of women in South Africa who have turned their tragedy into a tool.

The impact of South Africa’s unprecedented mining boom on the labour camps that support the industry is told through the brutal realities facing women in these communities. Freedom Park squatter camp, situated in the Northwest province, accommodates a migrant workforce that mines the world’s largest single source of platinum. The women in this community service the needs of the male miners as a means of basic survival. A group of HIV-infected former sex-workers have created a network called Tapologo and have learnt to be home-based care-workers, transforming degradation into solidarity and squalor into hope. As we learn each woman’s story, we come to understand how she herself was transformed—from someone who had lost hope into someone who decided to help others in the same situation. An inspiring and emotional tale, TAPOLOGO shows how one’s own experience is often the best source of help for others.
Filmmakers Gabriela Gutierrez Dewar and Sally Gutierrez Dewar in person
Presented in association with ActionAid, www.actionaid.org.uk

Location:

The Ritzy, Brixton Oval, London
Tickets http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema_home_date.aspx?eventId=5xmzlq%40ritz

Date and time:

March 21, 2009 4:00pm +0000

For travel to The Ritzy Cinema on Sat Mar 21
On Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 March, the Victoria line will be suspended. A rail replacement bus service will operate between Brixton and Victoria Station. Alternately, one can take Bus 345 or Bus 37 from Clapham Common (Northern Line) to Brixton or walk from Clapham Common to Brixton (20-25 mins).

ICA, The Mall, London

Tickets http://www.ica.org.uk/Tapologo%20%2B%20Q%26A+19168.twl

Date and time:

March 22, 2009 4:00pm +0000

Film Website:

http://www.tapologofilm.com

Tapólogo gana el X Festival Internacional de Cine Documental "Santiago Alvarez in Memoriam" de Cuba

La producción española Tapólogo, de Gabriela y Sally Gutiérrez Dewar, ha sido la ganadora del Gran Premio del X Festival Internacional de Cine Documental "Santiago Alvarez in Memoriam", celebrado en Santiago de Cuba del 8 al 13 de marzo.

Competían este año en el certamen cubano, que toma su nombre de un prestigioso documentalista, 26 obras de distintos países. Entre todas ellas, el jurado, formado por Alejandra Islas, de México, Pau Montagud, de España, Gisela Busaniche, de Argentina, y Miriam Talavera e Ismael Perdomo, de Cuba, otorgó el Gran Premio Santiago Alvarez a la mejor producción del festival a la obra Tapólogo, de Gabriela y Sally Gutiérrez Dewar, sobre un grupo de mujeres en Sudáfrica infectadas por el virus del Sida que trabajan en un asentamiento en la sabana para atender a las personas que padecen el mismo mal.