Wednesday, April 1st, 2015 Bosnia Rising: Film Screening and Panel Discussion

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NOTE: This event will take place at INNIS TOWN HALL, 2 Sussex Avenue, starting at 7:00 pm.

Please join the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Cinema Studies Institute for a screening of Bosnia Rising, produced by Academy Award winner Vanessa Redgrave. The film looks at the protests and worker demonstrations which erupted throughout Bosnia in February 2014, forced the resignation of four regional governments, and led to the formation of a novel form of citizens assembly. In the film economist Fred Harrison visits a group of workers in Tuzla who have occupied their closed factory, and engages in a discussion on how to achieve social justice after botched privatization.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with plenum organizer Damir Arsenijevic, economist Fred Harrison, filmmaker Carlo Nero, and producer Vanessa Redgrave.

Damir Arsenijevic is a Leverhulme Fellow at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, leading a project entitled ‘Love after Genocide’. An Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina and a psychoanalyst in training, he is the author of an edited volume on Bosnia’s protests and plenums entitled Unbribable Bosnia and Herzegovina—the Fight for the Commons.

Fred Harrison is a graduate of the Universities of Oxford and London, author of The Traumatised Society (2012) and Director of the Land Research Trust in London. He devoted ten years to trying to help the post-Soviet authorities to develop a people-centred model of the market economy, and is currently working with people in Scotland, Greece and Spain to develop an alternative to the current capitalist model.

Carlo Nero is a filmmaker, producer and writer, who was trained at the Centro Sperimentale Film Institute in Rome and New York University Film School. He has written, directed, and produced a number of award-winning films and documentaries, mostly dealing with the major economic, political, and environmental issues of our times, including the feature films “The Fever” (HBO Films) and “Uninvited” (Mediaset), as well as the documentaries “Roma Intorno a Roma” (Rome Around Rome), “Letter From New York to Sarajevo”, “Russia/Chechnya: Voices of Dissent”, “Wake Up World” (Unicef), and “The Killing Fields.”

Vanessa Redgrave is a Special Representative for the United Nations Childrens Fund. Since 1993 she worked in Sarajevo, Belgrade, Zagreb, in Slovenia, Macedonia and with UNICEF and the Mother Theresa Society. She is a long standing supporter of a number of Russian human rights societies, worked with UNRWA in the Gaza Strip and West Bank in 2004, and works for the rights of asylum seekers and refugees with UNHCR. She has financed and produced documentary films for over four decades, including “The Palestinians” (1977), “Can’t We Put Human Beings First” (1991), “Children’s Stories: Chechnya” (2000) and “Russia/Chechnya: Voices of Dissent” (2005).