J-SCHOOL EVENT: Exclusive Screening of “Baghdad High” - made by alumni
It’s an alumni documentary up for the Tribeca Film Festival’s “Best World Documentary Feature” award.
What: “Baghdad High” Screening with Directors Ivan O’Mahoney and Laura Winter
When: Thursday, May 1
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Where: Stabile Student Center, Columbia Journalism School, 2950 Broadway (at 116th Broadway), New York City
“Baghdad High,” directed by Ivan O’Mahoney ‘00 and Laura Winter ‘96, is up for the Tribeca Film Festival’s Best World Documentary Feature this year. Four classmates (Kurd, Christian, Shiite, and Sunni/Shiite) in Baghdad were given cameras to document their last year in high school, resulting in a rare firsthand view of what it’s like growing up where
sectarian violence rages right outside the classroom window. Variety wrote that “the small, quotidian realities of living in a foreign-occupied, divided city are brought coolly but poignantly to life” in the film. It will screen April 29-May 3 at the Tribeca Film Festival.
For more information: http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org/tff
