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Tuesday, 13 March 2007, 5:30pm - 7:30pm |
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*** Hands Off Venezuela/LSHTM Presentation ***
Date: Tuesday 13th March
Time: 5.30pm
Venue: Room 364
!SALUD!
This dvd illustrates how Cuba achieved its health outcomes and how its
international cooperation plan made the difference in countries such as The
Gambia, RSA, Honduras, Venezuela and so on.
Below I have pasted some comments on the DVD.
"For anyone interested in health and social justice, "¡Salud! is indispensable
to understanding the Cuban model -- what has been accomplished with very limited
resources and the transformative potential of construing health as a fundamental
human right and a matter of basic human dignity."
Alicia Yamin, JD, MPH
Physicians for Human Rights
"Watch ¡Salud! and you'll be in awe of what a small, poor country can do to
alleviate suffering all over the world. The love and care that Cuban-trained
doctors are giving to poor patients from South Africa to Venezuela and The
Gambia is a lasting legacy to the life-affirming values of the Cuban government
and its people."
Medea Benjamin, Global Exchange
"Cuba was a natural for us.They shared our philosophy of health equity,
prevention-oriented care and training doctors for public service." Ayanda
Ntsaluba, MD, South Africa's Former Director General of Health, Current Director
General, Foreign Relations
"¡Salud! is an excellent, accurate and deeply moving portrayal of a healthcare
system designed to keep people healthy rather than the 'sickcare' system that
currently exists in the United States." Jocelyn Elders, MD, former U.S. Surgeon
General
"¡Salud! brings forward the most salient issues in global health today and
successfully reveals that the right to health is urgent and inescapable."
Arachu Castro, PhD, MPH, Harvard Medical School
Below follows the list of producers and directors
Behind The Lens - The Filmmakers
CONNIE FIELD, Producer and Director
Producer/Director Connie Field has worked on numerous dramatic and documentary
films, as well as independently producing her own work.
Connie Field is a recipient of the John Grierson Award as most outstanding
social documentarian, and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. She is the founder
and president of Clarity Films (www.clarityfilms.org). Her most recent
endeavor, Have You Heard From Johannesburg? (2006), a documentary series on the
global effort to end Apartheid in South Africa, was awarded Best Documentary
Feature by the National Film Board of Canada at the 2006 Vancouver Film
Festival.
She was a director on Forever Activists (1990) (Academy Award Nominee), and her
feature documentary, Freedom on My Mind (1994), a history of the civil rights
movement in Mississippi, was nominated for an Academy Award and earned several
other honors, including the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the
Sundance Film Festival; Erik Barnouw Award, Organization of American Historians;
John O'Connor Award, American Historical Association; and Distinguished
Documentary Award, International Documentary Association. It was named "One of
the Ten Best Films" of 1994 by a variety of film critics and was also broadcast
on The American Experience.
She produced, directed and edited the feature documentary The Life and Times of
Rosie the Riveter (1981). Rosie. earned fifteen awards for Best Documentary
(including Gold Hugo, Chicago; John Grierson, Blue Ribbon, American
International Festival; Golden Marazzo, Festival dei Popoli; Cine Golden Eagle;
Golden Athena, Athens Festival; British Academy Award Nominee); was named "One
of the Ten Best Films of the Year" by several publications (including the
Village Voice and Film Comment); was voted "Best Independent Feature of the
Year" in American Film Magazine; was translated into ten languages and is listed
in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. It was broadcast on
The American Experience.
*** all are welcome ***
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