Parliament of Worlds Religion 2009 Melbourne Australia

Author(s): Parliament of the World’s Religions
Publisher: USA Parliament of the Worlds Religions

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Films
Subtheme: Sharing Wisdom in the Search for Inner Peace The Dhamma Brothers 6 December 2009 11:30am - 1:00pm Room 107 The Dhamma Brothers is a moving story of transformation. Men held in an overcrowded maximum-security prison in Bessemer, Alabama, are forever changed by a meditation program. The Dhamma Brothers has been described as a film where "East meets West in the Deep South," an apt portrait of what happens to a number of hardened criminals who volunteer for a ten-day Vipassana retreat.
Q & A will be hosted by Macky Alston, who serves as Director of Auburn Media at Auburn Theological Seminary, dedicated to informed, engaging coverage of religion in the media. Alston is an award-winning filmmaker and an organiser in the worlds of media and religion. He has received the Sundance Film Festival Freedom of Expression Award, the Gotham Open Palm Award, three Emmy nominations, and appeared widely in the press, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Today Show and The New York Times (www.mackyalston.com).
Praying with Lior 4 December 2009
4:30 - 6:00pm
Room 210
This film series was curated by Macky Alston, Executive Director of Auburn Media; filmmaker, Barbara Abrash, Director of Public Programs at the Centre for Religion and Media, New York University; Faye Ginsburg, David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology and Co-Director of the Centre for Religion and Media, New York University: Sarah Masters, Managing Director of Hartley Film Foundation; Cara Mertes, Director of the Sundance Institute Documentary Program; Alison van Dyk, Executive Director of The Temple of Understanding: Dean Wilson, Consultant to the Film Studies Program, Vietnam National University in Hanoi; and Angelo Zito, Co-Director of the Centre for Religion and Media, New York University
Praying with Lior challenges our beliefs about whom and how one speaks to God. The film follows Lior Liebling. a thirteen-year-old boy with Down Syndrome nicknamed "the little rebbe," for the four months that lead up to his Bar Mitzvah. The filmmaker brings to life a stirring story of how a community grapples with the particular gifts and handicaps of a special needs child, and how that child views meaning from his particular social location.
All curated film screenings will be followed by a Q & A.
Other Films (not curated)
See back of book for full descriptions. Session Title
Date Time
Location Numen: The Nature of Plants
4 Dec 9:30-11:00am Room 107 "The Green Patriarch' and 'The Arctic: The Consequences 4 Dec 11:30am-1:00pm Room 107 of Human Folly The Chiefs' Prophecy: Survival of the Northern Cheyenne Nation 4 Dec 2:30-4:00pm
Room 107 Not in God's Name
4 Dec 4:30-6:00pm
Room 109 New Muslim Cool
4 Dec 4:30-6:00pm
Room 107 Soldiers of Peace
4 Dec 9:00-10:30pm Room 107 Divided We Fall
5 Dec
11:30am-1:00pm Room 107 Selections from the New Film 'Journey of the Universe
5 Dec
11:30am-1:00pm Room 213 The Last Yoik in Saami Forests?
5 Dec 2:30-4:00pm
Room 107 "The Imam and the Pastor' and 'Australia's Muslim Women 5 Dec 4:30-6:00pm
Room 107 The Sacred Planet
5 Dec 9:00-10:30pm
Room 107 With One Voice
6 Dec 9:30-11:00am Room 107 American Outrage
6 Dec 2:30-4:00pm
Room 107 An Islamic Conscience: the Aga Khan and the Ismailis
6 Dec 4:30-6:00pm
Room 107 Burma VJ
6 Dec 9:00-10:30pm Room 107 Journey into America
7 Dec 9:30-11:00am Room 107 Beyond Beliefs - Muslims and Non-Muslims Living in Australia 7 Dec 11:30am-1:00pm Room 107 Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action
7 Dec 4:30-6:00pm
Room 107 Blue Gold: World Water Wars
7 Dec 9:00-10:30pm Room 107
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