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Out of the Silence:
Fighting for Human Rights
( English / 53 min. )
Country : USA
Production Co. : Chuck Olin Productions
Producer/Director : Chuck Olin
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The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
introduced in the aftermath of World War II, was intended
to enshrine a common understanding of human rights
that states agreed to protect. In the 40 years since, it
been used by groups fighting human rights abuses
around the world. In Communist Czechoslovakia, the
members of the dissident Charter 77 group
spear-headed the movement that led to the Velvet
Revolution and the 1989 overthrow of the Communist
regime. Chuck Olin’s compassionate film contrasts their
success with the struggles of Guatemalan civil rights
workers in the Council of Ethnic Communities (CERJ)
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today, educating peasant communities about their rights.
"It liberates people," explains one, "when they fight
peacefully, for what are their human rights".
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Angel is Missing
( English / 52 min. )
Country : UK
Production Co. : Yokshire Television
Producer/Director : Nick Gray
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In the vicious civil war that raged between the
military
and the Sendera Luminos guerrillas in the 1980s in
Peru, 15,000 Peruvians were killed and 10,000
kidnapped, or ‘disappeared’. One of the victims was
Angel Escobar Jurado, secretary of the Human Rights
Commission in the small town of the Huancavelica.
ANGEL IS MISSING follows Felicita, Angel’s wife, and
Belsa, his daughter, as they set out on a long search to
find him. Their investigation seems doomed from the
start. "So you’re admitting that it’s impossible to
administer the law and stay alive?" They demand of the
public prosecutor; "That is so," he replies. Intercutting
interviews with victims of torture and those in authority,
Nick Gray’s film explores Angel’s fate and the options left
for his family.
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