Watchers of the Sky
Release Date: October 17, 2015 (NY, LA)
Studio: Music Box Films
Director: Edet Belzberg
MPAA Rating: N/A
Screenwriter: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Starring: N/A
Plot Summary: Inspired by Samantha Power's Pulitzer Prize-winning book "A Problem From Hell," this illuminating and visually eloquent documentary interweaves the stories of four modern-day humanitarians whose lives and work embody the vision of the legendary human rights advocate Raphael Lemkin. With his provocative question, "why is the killing of a million a lesser crime than the killing of an individual?" Raphael Lemkin changed the course of history. Oscar-nominated documentarian Belzberg (CHILDREN UNDERGROUND) examines the life and legacy of the Polish-Jewish lawyer who coined the word "genocide." After experiencing the barbarity of the Holocaust firsthand, he devoted his life to convincing the international community that there must be legal retribution for mass atrocities. An impassioned visionary, Lemkin confronted world apathy in a tireless battle for justice, setting the stage for the creation of the International Criminal Court. WATCHERS OF THE SKY interweaves Lemkin's remarkable story with profiles of four visionary human rights advocates inspired by his work: Samantha Power, US ambassador to the United Nations; Luis Moreno Ocampo, ICC chief prosecutor; Benjamin Ferencz, Nuremberg prosecutor; and Emmanuel Uwurukundo, UN refugee officer. Spanning Bosnia, Darfur, the Nuremberg trials and the extermination of the Armenians, WATCHERS OF THE SKY takes viewers on a moving journey from criminality to justice, and from apathy to action.
Release Date: October 17, 2015 (NY, LA)
Studio: Music Box Films
Director: Edet Belzberg
MPAA Rating: N/A
Screenwriter: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Starring: N/A
Plot Summary: Inspired by Samantha Power's Pulitzer Prize-winning book "A Problem From Hell," this illuminating and visually eloquent documentary interweaves the stories of four modern-day humanitarians whose lives and work embody the vision of the legendary human rights advocate Raphael Lemkin. With his provocative question, "why is the killing of a million a lesser crime than the killing of an individual?" Raphael Lemkin changed the course of history. Oscar-nominated documentarian Belzberg (CHILDREN UNDERGROUND) examines the life and legacy of the Polish-Jewish lawyer who coined the word "genocide." After experiencing the barbarity of the Holocaust firsthand, he devoted his life to convincing the international community that there must be legal retribution for mass atrocities. An impassioned visionary, Lemkin confronted world apathy in a tireless battle for justice, setting the stage for the creation of the International Criminal Court. WATCHERS OF THE SKY interweaves Lemkin's remarkable story with profiles of four visionary human rights advocates inspired by his work: Samantha Power, US ambassador to the United Nations; Luis Moreno Ocampo, ICC chief prosecutor; Benjamin Ferencz, Nuremberg prosecutor; and Emmanuel Uwurukundo, UN refugee officer. Spanning Bosnia, Darfur, the Nuremberg trials and the extermination of the Armenians, WATCHERS OF THE SKY takes viewers on a moving journey from criminality to justice, and from apathy to action.
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