Film Festival provides global exposure and dialogue

Free event connects Missouri to the world

The Central Missouri Returned Peace Corps Volunteers will host the Third Goal International Film Festival in Chamber Auditorium at the University of Missouri Student Center  on February 2, 2013.

The Third Goal International Film Festival is a showcase of films covering diverse topics of worldwide significance; each film was either impacted by a Peace Corps volunteer or features significant issues faced in the countries hosting volunteers. Films are followed by speakers’ panels featuring Returned Peace Corps Volunteers from the highlighted region(s) as well as country nationals.  

1:00 p.m. Kinyarwanda

During the Rwandan genocide, when neighbors killed neighbors and friends betrayed friends, some crossed lines of hatred to protect each other. Kinyarwanda interweaves six different tales that together form one grand narrative that provides the most complex and real depiction yet presented of human resilience and life during the genocide. With an amalgamation of characters, we pay homage to many, using the voices of a few.

Director Alrick Brown, RPCV Ivory Coast, will be at the festival to discuss the film.

3:30 p.m. Feast & Sacrifice

Feast & Sacrifice is a carefully observed portrait of a Senegalese family living on the ragged edges of globalization. Questions of work, gender, and aspirations emerge as the family prepares for the biggest holiday of the year, the Islamic Feast of the Sacrifice.

Director: Clare Major RPCV Senegal

4:15-4:45 Intermission

4:45 p.m. My Village My Lobster

Along Nicaragua’s Miskito Coast, commercial lobster diving is the largest industry, employing over 5,000 Nicaraguans, mostly indigenous Miskito Indians. It’s an industry that affects the livelihoods of 50,000 men, women and children, and contributes millions of dollars to the regional economy. Shot over four years, My Village, My Lobster chronicles the industry—it’s benefits, risks and prospects for the future. The film features exclusive testimony from a cast of compelling central characters: lobster divers who have been injured from the bends while diving; boat owners and captains who are responsible for their divers’ safety; a hyperbaric medicine specialist who treats injured divers; and diving boat crew members who have witnessed divers die from the bends firsthand.

Director: Joshua Wolff and Producer: Brad Allgood, RPCV Nicaragua

6:15 p.m. Hijos de Kennedy

Hijos de Kennedy chronicles the lives of Peace Corps volunteers in Colombia, including footage and interviews with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and features the work of RPCVs Maureen Orth and Congressman Sam Farr as well as current volunteers. By award-winning filmmaker Susan Koch. One of the volunteers featured in the film will be at the festival. 

Director: Susan Koch

7:00 Last Train Home

An emotionally engaging and visually beautiful debut film from Chinese-Canadian director Lixin Fan, Last Train Home draws us into the fractured lives of a migrant family caught up in China's desperate annual New Year's migration.

Director: Lixin Fan

1. •International food tasting: bring buuz, khuusuur, peanut sauce, pupusas or any dish from your country of service to share. Contact Maya Tarter to coordinate at Mayatarter@gmail.com or  (309) 472-6406
   

2. • RPCV Photo Competition: Print an 8x10 of the most amazing, bewildering, or amusing photo you took during your Peace Corps Service. Write up a brief caption and bring it along to the Film Fest for display. Attendees will vote on their favorite and prizes will be awarded to the winner at the event. Contact Andy Craver for details at alc6d5@mail.missouri.edu or  (540) 623-5429
   

3. •Silent Auction: Dust off your artifacts from your PC service and help support the festival. Items will be auctioned off at the fest. contact Megan Gore to coordinate at megangore7@gmail.com or 573-883-0056
   

4. •February 1–Filmmaker Workshop: Directions to the Filmmaker Workshop with director Alrick Brown
   

            Columbia Access Television Studio A

            1405 E. Broadway

            in the basement of the Helis Communications Center at Stephens College

            http://www.stephens.edu/maps/campusmap.pdf

About the Third Goal International Film Festival

The Third Goal International Film Festival features films made by or about the work of Peace Corps volunteers in an effort to share their experiences overseas with fellow Americans.  In John F. Kennedy's original mission statement for the Peace Corps, Goal #3 -- "Helping promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of Americans."

About the Central Missouri Returned Peace Corps Volunteers

Central Missouri Returned Peace Corps Volunteers was formed in 1996 as part of the 35th anniversary of the Peace Corps. It now has contact with more than 175 returned volunteers in the Central-Missouri area. Learn more at morpcv.org or email centralmorpcvs@gmail.com.

The Central Missouri Returned Peace Corps Association is affiliated with the National Peace Corps Association.

Our objectives are to:

•Educate people about the Peace Corps

•Act as a resource for people interested in joining the Peace Corps

•Promote volunteerism in the community

•Support currently serving Peace Corps volunteers from Central Missouri through small project grants

Directions to MU Student Center

1. •From I-70
   

1. ◦Exit 128 at U.S. 63 highway. Proceed south (signs will say toward Jefferson City). Exit Stadium Blvd, turn right heading west. Turn right (north) on College Avenue, and left (west) on Hospital Drive, then right (north) on Hitt St. Parking available at Virginia Parking Garage immediately on your right. MU Student Center is one block north of Virginia Parking Garage: 901 Rollins St.
   

2. •From U.S. 63
   

1. ◦Exit west on Stadium Blvd. Turn right (north) on College Avenue, and left (west) on Hospital Drive, then right (north) on Hitt St. Parking available at Virginia Parking Garage immediately on your right. MU Student Center is one block north of Virginia Parking Garage: 901 Rollins St.