The World Stopped Watching

Film/Video WAR, PEACE, AND RESISTANCE: A FILM SERIES This ongoing monthly film series promotes international tolerance through cinema. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2003, 6:30 PM AND 8 PM FREE

THE WORLD IS WATCHING
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 6:30 PM FREE
INTRODUCED BY DIRECTOR PETER RAYMONT
Canadian filmmaker Peter Raymont's documentary The World Is Watching is set in Nicaragua and offers a close look at the war that pitted brother against brother as the American-backed Contras battled the Sandinistas. The film focuses on several journalists as they show how the news business works, revealing the inevitable distortions that became part of the process of information gathering and news-making. 1987, Canada, color, video, 58 minutes.

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THE WORLD STOPPED WATCHING
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 8 PM FREE
INTRODUCED BY DIRECTOR PETER RAYMONT
Fifteen years later, Raymont returns to Nicaragua with two of the journalists featured in his earlier film, photographer Randolph Ryan and writer Bill Gentile. This time they see the effects of the war from the vantage point of history in a country that is no longer front-page news. 2003, Canada, color, video, 81 minutes. A Q&A with the director follows.