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January film series focuses on global health
January 11, 2008
The Wang Center for International Programs has partnered with various campus organizations to present a film series focused on global health issues.
The series kicks off with the showing of “Blood of Yingzhou District” on Wednesday, Jan. 16 at 8 p.m. in Ingram 100. It is sponsored by the Chinese studies program.
The documentary depicts the lives of children living in the remote villages of Anhui Province, China, who have lost their parents to AIDS. It illustrates the traditional Chinese obligations of family and village colliding with the terror of infection. The film received the 2006 Oscar for the best short subjects documentary.
A different film will be shown each Wednesday at 8 p.m. throughout January, and on Feb. 6 and 12. The first two January showings will be in Ingram 100, with the remaining showings in The Cave.
The film series leads up to the Wang Center’s symposium “Advances in Global Health by Non-Governmental Organizations” slated for Feb. 21 and 22. The symposium includes speeches by Stephen Lewis, formerly the Special Envoy to U.N. Secretary Kofi Annan, and alum William Foege, a senior fellow at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
For more information, contact the Wang Center at ext. 7577 or wangctr@plu.edu.
The documentary depicts the lives of children living in the remote villages of Anhui Province, China, who have lost their parents to AIDS. It illustrates the traditional Chinese obligations of family and village colliding with the terror of infection. The film received the 2006 Oscar for the best short subjects documentary.
A different film will be shown each Wednesday at 8 p.m. throughout January, and on Feb. 6 and 12. The first two January showings will be in Ingram 100, with the remaining showings in The Cave.
The film series leads up to the Wang Center’s symposium “Advances in Global Health by Non-Governmental Organizations” slated for Feb. 21 and 22. The symposium includes speeches by Stephen Lewis, formerly the Special Envoy to U.N. Secretary Kofi Annan, and alum William Foege, a senior fellow at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
For more information, contact the Wang Center at ext. 7577 or wangctr@plu.edu.