For the 18th time, the Arts Arena presents UNAFF and its Traveling Film Festival (TFF) with a curated series of documentary films. Founded in 1998, by longtime Stanford University educator and film critic Jasmina Bojic, UNAFF has screened documentaries dealing with human rights, the environment, women’s issues, children, refugee protection, homelessness, racism, disease control, universal education, war and peace. Many selections have gone on to win Oscars and other major awards. For more details please visit www.unaff.org.
This year’s theme for the Paris Travelng Film Festival will be Activists. We will screen a joyous film that features the Dali Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu; a short film on an artist whose portrait painting of activitists aims to give their work wider reach; and a “detective” film about an activist who disappeared then reappeared. Dates, times, and synopses of the films will be available on www.artsarena.org