Documentary Screening to Benefit REAP, 4/9

This event is free to the Hackley community and everyone is warmly welcome to attend. If you wish, you may choose to make a donation at the door to support the rebuilding of the library. The week of April 7-14 marks the 23rd commemoration of the 1994 genocide against Tutsis in Rwanda.

2017 marks the 10th year anniversary of Hackley’s partnership with two schools in Rwanda, Green Hills Academy in Kigali and Duha Complex School in rural Musha. Hackley is delighted to host a group of students and faculty from Green Hills as a part of this partnership from April 8-17, 2017. Hackley partners with REAP, the Rwanda Education Assistance Project, in its work at Duha, and REAP has been working with Duha since 2006- building a library and community center, establishing a dairy farm to feed the youngest students, working with teachers on the curriculum in English, creating programs around girls’ leadership and gender equity, and establishing partnerships with a number of US schools. Recently, REAP has expanded its education model to other local schools in the Rwamagana district.

In the fall of 2016, a violent storm destroyed several classrooms and the library at Duha, as well as homes in the village. Over the years, the Hackley community had contributed many books and materials to Duha’s library, the school’s first, and Hackley students and faculty had helped to establish this library at the school. Now, the April 9th screening hopes to support much-needed rebuilding efforts.

Please note that this film is not suitable for younger students because of the subject matter and some graphic and upsetting images. This film has not yet been released.

(From the film's website:) THE UNCONDEMNED is a courtroom drama, turned upside down when three brave women came forward to tell their story. THE UNCONDEMNED is a riveting documentary about an underdog group of lawyers and activists who defied the odds to do what had never been done: prosecute rape as an international war crime. In 1997, the young men and women at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda found themselves inexplicably in charge of the first case of genocide in history. Underfunded, understaffed and overwhelmed, they faced incredible hurdles as they pursued their first case against a small town mayor. Crimes of war and against humanity had not been prosecuted since 1946, and surviving witnesses feared for their lives. And then, based on a last minute revelation, the prosecuting team amended the charge to include rape. Three heroic women would overcome their fears and shame to speak for all those who could not. Secret memos, witness assassinations, setbacks and barriers – THE UNCONDEMNED captures the untold, remarkable story that changed the course of international judicial history.

Co-Director, Producer, and writer Michele Mitchell is a former political anchor on CNN and investigative reporter for “NOW with Bill Moyers” on PBS. Co-Director, Director of Photography, and writer Nick Louvel was an accomplished independent filmmaker; Louvel died in a car accident in 2015 shortly after the completion of the film.