Hector Babenco gets Amnesty International's 2004 Amnesty Award
Posted on Friday, May 21, 2004 @ 01:16:09 EDT by Editorial Team
Daryl Hannah presents director Hector Babenco with Amnesty International's 2004 Artists for Amnesty Award, followed by a screening of Carandiru presented by Sony Pictures Classics & Brazil Foundation.
Hollywood, CA (PRWEB) May 20, 2004 -- Daryl Hannah presents director Hector Babenco with Amnesty International's 2004 Artists for Amnesty Award, which was followed by a screening of Carandiru presented by Sony Pictures Classics & Brazil Foundation.
Based on a true story, Carandiru explores the cells, the psyches and the horrors of Latin America's largest prison, culminating in the fateful 1992 massacre of 111 inmates during a prison riot. Through the eyes of a doctor, who for 12 years treated inmates suffering from a variety of diseases in decaying facilities, the viewer follows a montage of flashbacks and interlocking lives to portray the culture and the characters of an overcrowded and lawless prison. Ten years after the massacre, Carandiru was demolished to make way for a park. But where its demolition erased an emblem of police brutality in Brazil, Babenco's rendering is a monument to those whose spirits were lost within its walls.
Also, in attendance for the presentation were recording artist Cynthia Basinet, Phil Noyce, Jane Sharp, City of West Hollywood Councilman John Heilman, Christiana Babenco, Bonnie Abaunza and Dennis Palmieri, of Amnesty International.
About Amnesty International: Amnesty International's vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards.
Amnesty International undertakes research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human rights.
About Amnesty International Film Festival:
Shot in 27 languages and on five continents - the 37 films in this year's program offer powerful testimony to the interconnectedness of our struggles for freedom and universally guaranteed human rights.
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