Documenting Impact-OVEE Screening of "The Look of Silence"

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Documenting Impact-OVEE Screening of "The Look of Silence"

By Media Impact Funders

Date and time

Thursday, July 21, 2016 · 9 - 10am PDT

Location

Online

Description

Don't forget to sign-up on OVEE in advance of the screening: https://ovee.itvs.org/screenings/xow9v

You'll be asked to enter your email, a password of your choosing, your name, and a photo. Then click sign up and check your inbox for a confirmation email. To complete your registration, click on the link included in the confirmation email.

We invite you to join us from noon-1 p.m. ET on July 21 for an online OVEE screening featuring clips and conversation from the Academy-nominated documentary The Look of Silence.

More than 50 years after the 1965 Indonesian genocide, a family of survivors discovers how their son was murdered, and learn the identities of his killers. The Look of Silence focuses on the family's youngest son, an optometrist named Adi, who decides to do something unimaginable in a society where the murderers remain in power: He confronts the men who killed his brother and, while testing their eyesight, asks them to accept responsibility for their actions. This unprecedented film initiates and bears witness to the collapse of 50 years of silence.

'The Look of Silence,' is, I hope, a poem about a silence borne of terror -- a poem about the necessity of breaking that silence, but also about the trauma that comes when silence is broken. Maybe the film is a monument to silence -- a reminder that although we want to move on, look away and think of other things, nothing will make whole what has been broken.

- Joshua Oppenheimer, filmmaker

Through a partnership with OVEE, an online cinematic social visual experience created by ITVS, we'll screen the trailer, watch several clips, and conduct an interview with filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer and Director of Social Impact Media Rebecca Lichtenfeld from Bertha Foundation, a principal funder of the film.

Documenting Impact is a series that features in-depth conversations with filmmakers about the most pressing social issues of our time. Previous installments included Girl Rising, Who is Dayani Cristal, Chasing Ice and When I Walk.

Partners:

Philanthropy New York

Organized by

www.mediaimpactfunders.org

200 West Washington Square, Suite 220

Philadelphia, PA 19106

215.574.1322

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