Venue: Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall

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Title: We Stand Alone Documentary Screening

Date: December 2014

Venue: United Nations Headquarters New York

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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. 

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Title: NY Festivals Awards 2018

Date: 17 May 2018

Venue: Lincoln Center

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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

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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

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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

Title: Panel discussion at New York Comic Con

Date: October 2015

Venue: Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York

Speaker: Michael Uslan, film producer

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Date: June 2016

Venue: ArcLight Cinemas, Culver City

Speakers:

Harold Monfils, Director

Maher Nasser, Director of UN DGC Outreach Division

Josh Welsh, President of Film Independent

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Date: 21 November 2017
 
Event: World TV Day: Spotlighting Global Issues through Entertainment
 
Location: United Nations Headquarters, New York
 
Speakers:

Serinda Swan, actor (Inhumans, Ballers, Graceland) and human trafficking activist

Raeshem Nijhon, producer of MTV's Rebel Music

Rashida Jones

Neal Weinberg, Producer, CNN ASPIREist

Title: Screening of Academy Award-nominated film Brooklyn

Date: February 2016

Venue: Economic and Social Council Chamber, UN Headquarters

Speakers:

Karen AbuZayd, Special Advisor on the Summit on Addressing Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants

Leila Buck, writer

Joe Neumaier, film critic (moderator)

Saoirse Ronan, Academy Award-nominated actress

Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn

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