Women with Autism in Film - Please Stand By
Date: 5 April 2018
Event: Women with Autism in Film – Please Stand By, part of the annual UN observance of World Autism Awareness Day
Location: United Nations Headquarters, New York
Speakers:
Lara Alamdeddine, Producer
Domonique Brown, Actor
Dakota Fanning, Lead actress
Michael Golamco, Writer
Elaine Hall, Autism coach (moderator)
Ben Lewin, Director
Brittanie Sanders, Actress
Synopsis:
Iberoamerican Creative Summit
Date: July 2011
Venue: Niemeyer Center, Aviles, Spain
Speakers:
Radhika Coomaraswamy, Special Representative of the UN SG for Children and Armed Conflict
Catarina Furtado, Journalist/Actress and Goodwill Ambassador for UN Population Fund
Osvaldo Laport, Actor and Goodwill Ambassador for UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Mila Sorvino, Actress and Goodwill Ambassador for UN Office on Drugs and Crime
Teresa Viejo, Journalist and national Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF
Incorporated Premiere
Title: Premier screening of the pilot of the television series Incorporated
Date: 21 November 2016
Venue: Trusteeship Council Chamber, UN Headquarters
Speakers:
Dennis Haysbert, Actor
Ted Humphrey, Executive producer
Maher Nasser, Director, Outreach Division, UN Department of Global Communications
Julia Ormond, Actress
Sean Teale, Actor
Event Summary:
Partnership with NY Festivals
Venue: Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall
Event Summary:
He Named Me Malala Premiere
Title: World premiere screening of feature documentary He Named Me Malala
Date: September 2015
Venue: Ziegfeld Theatre, New York
Speakers:
Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and UN Messenger of Peace
Ziauddin Yousafzai, Education activist and Ms. Yousafzai’s father
Davis Guggenheim, Academy Award winning director
Event Summary:
We Stand Alone screening
Title: We Stand Alone Documentary Screening
Date: December 2014
Venue: United Nations Headquarters New York
Event Summary:
The documentary film We Stand Alone tells the story of the Liberian national amputee soccer team and the role their quest to win the 2011 African Amputee Cup of Nations. Screened in collaboration with the Department of Economic and Social Affairs in observance of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
CCOI's Role:
NY Festivals Awards 2018
Title: NY Festivals Awards 2018
Date: 17 May 2018
Venue: Lincoln Center
Event Summary:
Screening of The Whistleblower
Date: October 2011
Venue: Economic and Social Council Chamber
Speakers:
Larysa Kondracki, Writer and Director
Susana Malcorra, UN Under-Secretary-General for Field Services
Ban Ki-Moon, former UN Secretary General
Anne-Marie Orler, Police Adviser, UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations
Madeleine Reese, UN human rights officer
Permanent Representative of Uruguay to the UN
Event Summary:
Battlestar Galactica
Date: March 2009
Venue: Economic and Social Council Chamber
Speakers:
David Eick, Writer
Whoopi Goldberg, Actress
Mary McDonnell, Actress
Ronald D. Moore, Screenwriter
Edward James Olmos, Actor
Event Summary:
Life, Animated Panel Discussion
Title: Envision screening of Life, Animated, Academy Award nominated documentary
Date: June 2016
Venue: Trusteeship Council Chamber
Speakers:
Akiko Ito, Chief, Secretariat for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, United Nations
Amy Harmon, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, The New York Times (moderator)
Roger Ross Williams, Academy Award winning director
Ron Suskind, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author