Fusion Film Festival to Screen Award-Winning Documentary The Devil Came On Horseback
Fusion Film Festival, the student-run film festival at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts celebrating the work of women filmmakers, will launch its year-long fifth anniversary celebration with the screening and a panel discussion of the award-winning Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern documentary The Devil Came on Horseback, a film candidly exposing the tragedy taking place in Darfur, Sudan.
The panelists for the event are filmmakers Sundberg and Stern; producer Jane Wells; Ruth Messinger, director of the American Jewish World Service and former Manhattan borough president; Simon Deng, political activist, speaker, and a victim of Sudanese slavery; and Dirk Salomons, director of the Program for Humanitarian Affairs at the School of International Public Affairs, Columbia University, and adjunct professor at NYU’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. The panel’s moderator is Sam Pollard, feature film and television video editor, documentary producer/director, and professor in the Kanbar Institute of Film & Television.
The screening and panel discussion are co-sponsored by NYU’s STAND (Students Taking Action Now Darfur), a student anti-genocide coalition whose members will be available to answer questions about the current crisis.
The
screening and panel discussion will be held Friday, Oct. 26 at the
Cantor Film Center, located at 36 E. 8th Street (between University
Place and Broadway). The 6:00 p.m. screening and 7:30 p.m. panel
discussion are free and open to the public, but seating is limited.
Reservations are recommended by emailing your name, telephone, and
number of tickets (limit four) by Oct. 24 to fusionDCOH@gmail.com.
