MaryAnn’s quick take…
Meet the dedicated young lawyers and activists who prosecuted and convicted the first person ever to go to prison for genocide and wartime rape. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
For all the bloody history of the 20th century, and even with great strides toward concepts of international justice such as the Nuremberg trials, no one had ever been tried for, let alone convicted of, genocide. An idealistic group of young lawyers, activists, and journalists wanted to change that after the nightmare of the mass killings of the Tutsi people in Rwanda in 1994, which saw up to a million people slaughtered, and many more subjected to brutal systemic rape. And though rape had been considered a war crime since 1919, no one had ever been tried for, let alone convicted of, rape as a war crime,...
Meet the dedicated young lawyers and activists who prosecuted and convicted the first person ever to go to prison for genocide and wartime rape. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
For all the bloody history of the 20th century, and even with great strides toward concepts of international justice such as the Nuremberg trials, no one had ever been tried for, let alone convicted of, genocide. An idealistic group of young lawyers, activists, and journalists wanted to change that after the nightmare of the mass killings of the Tutsi people in Rwanda in 1994, which saw up to a million people slaughtered, and many more subjected to brutal systemic rape. And though rape had been considered a war crime since 1919, no one had ever been tried for, let alone convicted of, rape as a war crime,...
- 11/7/2016
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
In 1997, a group of young international lawyers and activists prosecuted rape as an international war crime in the first case of genocide in history. The International Criminal Trial for Rwanda (the Ictr) was established by the United Nations in 1994 in order to judge the people responsible for the Rwandan Genocide where an estimated 1,000,000 Tutsi people were slaughtered at the hands of the Hutu majority. The new documentary “The Uncondemned” tracks the trial of Jean-Paul Akayesu, and how a group of underdog lawyers and three brave women helped establish the precedent that genocidal rape falls under genocide. Watch an exclusive clip from the film below.
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The film is co-directed by Michele Mitchell, a longtime investigative journalist and author who has covered politics for outlets such as PBS and CNN Headline News. A leading expert on the topic of rape and war crimes,...
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The film is co-directed by Michele Mitchell, a longtime investigative journalist and author who has covered politics for outlets such as PBS and CNN Headline News. A leading expert on the topic of rape and war crimes,...
- 10/19/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
If you’re looking for a documentary about courage against all odds, Michele Mitchell (“Haiti: Where Did the Money Go?”) and Nick Louvel’s (“Domino One”) documentary “The Uncondemned” might fit the bill, chronicling the first trial to persecute rape as an international war crime, setting historic legal precedent for prosecution of future war crimes.
The documentary begins as a conventional courtroom drama, following a group of lawyers and activists in the late 1990s at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda who found themselves in charge of the first case of genocide in history.
Continue reading Trailer For Documentary ‘The Uncondemned’ Chronicles International Judicial History at The Playlist.
The documentary begins as a conventional courtroom drama, following a group of lawyers and activists in the late 1990s at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda who found themselves in charge of the first case of genocide in history.
Continue reading Trailer For Documentary ‘The Uncondemned’ Chronicles International Judicial History at The Playlist.
- 10/7/2016
- by Elizabeth MacLeod
- The Playlist
Exclusive: “It felt as though we were dropped on Mars and our job was to make something happen.” Here is the trailer for The Uncondemned, a documentary about a group of international lawyers and activists who travel to Rwanda t0 take on the arduous task of prosecuting rape as a crime against humanity. Written by Michele Mitchel who also co-directed with Nick Louvel, the film centers on the group’s fight for the first conviction and the courageous Rwandan women who came…...
- 10/4/2016
- Deadline
The Uncondemned to reveal secret witnesses in first conviction of war rapeFilm-maker Michele Mitchell mourns death of ‘creative soulmate’ Nick Louvel
It’s a long way from Rwanda to the Hamptons, in every sense. But on Friday afternoon the two will be connected when a pack of underdogs finally get their props in a tale of unlikely triumph against the odds.
The Uncondemned, a new documentary debuting at the Hamptons international film festival, will reveal the mystery witnesses who testified from behind a curtain to bring about the world’s first-ever conviction of rape as a war crime in Rwanda.
Continue reading...
It’s a long way from Rwanda to the Hamptons, in every sense. But on Friday afternoon the two will be connected when a pack of underdogs finally get their props in a tale of unlikely triumph against the odds.
The Uncondemned, a new documentary debuting at the Hamptons international film festival, will reveal the mystery witnesses who testified from behind a curtain to bring about the world’s first-ever conviction of rape as a war crime in Rwanda.
Continue reading...
- 10/9/2015
- by Joanna Walters
- The Guardian - Film News
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