Film screening: Global Struggle for an Independent Press

Posted by on October 20, 2006

ITVS Community Cinema, Media Tank, The Society of Professional Journalists, WHYY and Amnesty International present an advance screening and discussion of the documentary, “DEMOCRACY ON DEADLINE: The Global Struggle for an Independent Press”, a film by Cal Skaggs.

Does a free society require an energetically free press? DEMOCRACY ON DEADLINE shadows courageous journalists and champions of independent media as they work to make, and keep, their societies free?in Afghanistan, Israel, Mexico, Nigeria, Russia, Sierra Leone and the United States.

Speakers from local media and academia will join us to discuss the important role of investigative journalism from a local, national, and global perspective.

Moderator: Dave Davies, Senior Writer – Philadelphia Daily News.
Panelists: John Baer, Columnist – Philadelphia Daily News; Michael Matza, Staff Writer / Middle East Bureau Chief – Philadelphia Inquirer; Dr. Fabienne Darling-Wolf, Asst Professor of Journalism – Temple University, School
of Communication and Theater

October 25, 2006
6:00pm – 9:00pm
Location:
The Rotunda, 4041 Walnut Street, Philadelphia,
*** Doors open at 6pm, film starts at 6:30pm and discussion at 8:00***

Open to the Public. There is no charge to attend.

RSVP: itvscinemaphiladelphia@yahoo.com or 267.259-2049

Thank you to: the Philadelphia Independent Film & Video Association (PIFVA), Philadelphia Film Society (PFS), TLA Video and Whole Foods.

?DEMOCRACY ON DEADLINE? is coming to PBS on Independent Lens in November, 2006.

For a full calendar of ITVS Community Cinema events, visit: http://itvs.org/outreach/cinema Browse by show, & scroll down to “Philadelphia” for local screenings. For more information, contact: cindy_burstein@itvs.org