UofT Film Festival: INTERNATIONAL HEALTH DOCS *feature "Shake Hands with the Devil" ** keynote address by Gerald Caplan* * ** Thursday, March 13 at 7PM INNIS TOWN HALL, 2 Sussex Avenue* Tickets $5 for students and $8 for everyone else At the door or from uofttix.ca * SPECIAL FEATURE: SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL* Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire (56:00) directed by Peter Raymont and produced by Patrick Reed. Based in part on the book Shake Hands with the Devil by (Ret.) Lt. General Romeo Dallaire with Major Brent Beardsley and produced by White Pine Pictures this is the most powerful documentary produced about the Rwandan genocide. Canadian Lieutenant General Roméo Dallaire was tasked by the United Nations with ensuring that peace was maintained in Rwanda. Dallaire is convinced that, with a few thousand more troops and a mandate to act pre-emptively, he could have prevented the slaughter of 800,00 people. His impotence, at a time of extreme crisis, preys on his conscience still. * Gerald Caplan* has a Ph.D. in African history from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. He has been involved in Africa and third world issues for four decades. He is the author of the 300-page report Rwanda: The Preventable Genocide for the International Panel of Eminent Personalities established by the Organization of African Unity to investigate the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda. Dr. Caplan has been the volunteer chair of the International Advisory Board for the African AIDS Initiative of the Centre for International Health, University of Toronto, and is senior advisor to Stephen Lewis, former UN Special Envoy for AIDS in Africa. * STUDENT SUBMISSIONS 360 degrees: A Perspective on Global Health (4:00) *by Pavan Gill, Christine Yurkowski and Gargi Nanavaty A visual PowerPoint narrating the experiences of U of T students who traveled to countries around the world including Tanzania and Guyana reflecting on the challenges and accomplishments they achieved while playing a part in global health. The students attempt to evoke thoughts on what global health means to them, should mean to us and where do we all go from here? * Going for the Gold - Canadian Mining in Indigenous Mayan Lands (4:00)* by Alina Smirnova, Sana Malik, Kristen Yee, Kristen Yee and Miry Choi A group of UofT students traveled to Alto Plato of Guatemala and produced this photographic essay elucidating the struggle of the indigenous people to keep their land and their health in the face of an expanding (Canadian) mining project. You will meet the victims, the government, and the researchers who are all working to defend their rights as human beings. * Into the Rainforest (5:00)* by Nicodemus Oey (Juxtaposition Global Health Magazine) A UofT student's journey into the heart of the Borneo rainforests to help realize the dream of 5000 children around the village of Tamong, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. $10000 were raised here in Canada during the 2006-2007 school year that all went towards the building of a health clinic and an elementary school. ************************* About the organizers: THE CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL HEALTH (CIH) AT THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE The Centre for International Health enables and harnesses the multiplicity of talent within the University of Toronto and associated collaborators, and project this expertise into the field of international health. The Centre for International Health has created a University of Toronto cross and multi disciplinary network of partnerships and collaborations. The CIH collaborates with University of Toronto faculty from multidisciplines, who are determined to raise issues of global health as stellar researchers, educators, advocates and thoughtful individuals. They are committed to improve the 10/90 Gap in global health research by advancing global health education, research and advocacy. UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO INTERNATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMME(UTIHP) The University of Toronto International Health Programme (UTIHP) is a student-run non-profit organization committed to educate and advocate health as a global concern and a cornerstone of sustainable development, provide an interdisciplinary forum for promotion and discussion of international health issues and provide students from various disciplines the opportunity to develop leadership skills and a working knowledge base for further involvement in international health. ------------------- Problems/Questions? 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