4th North Dakota Human Rights Film Festival Program Announced
BY SCOTTIE KNOLLIN
The 2020 North Dakota Human Rights Film Festival has announced the official line-up for the fourth annual festival. This year’s list of films, which will be streamed virtually due to the ongoing pandemic, include 38 films from 28 countries. Audiences can view the films with the Eventive app found on AppleTV and Roku streaming devices. Viewers can also watch or cast from their computers, tablets, or mobile phones.
Programming includes four short blocks, each approximately 90 minutes in length; 15 feature-length films; and a special presentation of the episodic series, “The Park”.
“We’re extremely excited by the festival,” said Sean Coffman, Executive Director of the Human Family and Festival Director of the 2020 North Dakota Human Rights Film Festival. “The films screening this year speak profoundly to important issues currently being discussed in our communities.” Coffman is also a founding member of the North Dakota Film Society.
The official line-up includes:
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A CONVERSATION WITH AMERICA
ABOUT HER
ALTAB ALI AND THE BATTLE OF BRICK LANE
ANOTHER SCAR OF GENOCIDE: DIABETES IN INDIAN COUNTRY
BROKE IS THE REASON
CAN ART STOP A BULLET?
COWBOY POETRY
THE DAKOTE ENTRAPMENT TAPES
EAT THE RAINBOW
EXECUTION ISLAND
THE GIRL ON THE BRIDGE
THE GREATEST BATTLE LIES WITHIN
HER PLACE
INNER WOODS
LA TRAVESIA
LAST MEMORY
LOST LIVES
THE MARKER
MIRAGE
MISS MAN
MISSIONARIES OF THE RAIN
MY GOD, I’M QUEER
NEVER GOING BACK
OURS TO TELL
OUTSIDE
THE PARK
REVOLUTION FROM AFAR
SAVAGE
SISTERS RISING
TENT 113, IDOMENI
UNDETERRED
WELCOME TO LEITH
WHAT WAS OURS
WITH OPEN EYES
WITHOUT A WHISPER
Tickets for the festival are on sale now. An All-Access pass that provides access to all films in the festival is $35. Individual session General Admission is $10. Find passes and individual tickets online at www.ndhrff.org. To view the film catalog and films, attendees will use the Eventive platform available at ndhrff2020.eventive.org.
Pre-rcorded Q&As with filmmakers will be available throughout the festival. A series of live discussions will be scheduled for the week of November 8, including a 5-year retrospective with the filmmakers of “Welcome to Leith”. The film documented the attempted takeover of Leith’s small town, North Dakota, by white supremacist Craig Cobb. Another discussion will take place with North Dakota filmmaker Justin Deegan, whose film “Another Scar of Genocide: Diabetes in Indian Country” shines a light on the truth of access to health care in Indian Country.
Films will screen online beginning midnight Sunday, November 8 through midnight Sunday, November 15.
